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green, the i)ungent brown-black end-s^jine an inch long, the bright 

 chestnut-brown prickles larger and more irregular than in ameri- 

 cana, with longer and sharper cusps, at most ^ in. long. Inflores- 

 cence unknown. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Described from specimens seen at Kew and 

 Keigate, the former sent by Mr. Justus Corderoy. 



59. A. [Euagave) mexicana Lam. Encyc. i. 52 ; Eicasoli in 

 Gard. Chron. 1883, i. fig. 22. — Acaulescent. Leaves 20-30 in a 

 rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, 2-3 ft. long, 5-6 in. broad above 

 the middle, narrowed to 3-4 in. above the base, very glaucous, the 

 brown pungent point an inch long, the subdistant deltoid-cuspidate 

 prickles ^-^ in. long. Peduncle 18 ft. long, including the 7-8 ft. 

 thyrsoid panicle. Flowers 2|-3 in. long ; tube ^-f in. ; segments 

 greenish yellow, under an inch long. Capsule 2 in. long. 



Hab. Mexico. Frequent in European gardens. The above description is 

 made from specimens at Kew and Keigate, and of the inflorescence from a plant 

 that flowered in 1855 at Brussels. Baron Kicasoli's plant, grown in the open 

 air at Florence, had above 100 leaves reaching a length of 4 ft. and a peduncle 

 23 ft. long, with 46 branches. I cannot distinguish specifically A. cyanopliylla 

 Jacobi. 



60. A. (Euagave) Americana Linn. Sp. Plant. 461 ; Andr. Bot. 

 Eep. t. 438 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3654. — Acaulescent. Leaves usually 

 30-40, sometimes 50-60 in a rosette, oblanceolate-spathulate, 

 3-6 ft. long, 6-9 in. broad above the middle, narrowed to 4-5 in. 

 above the base, glaucous green, the pungent brown end-spine, 

 l|-2 in. long, the edge rcpand between the distant unequal middle- 

 sized deltoid-cuspidate prickles. Peduncle with panicle 24-36 ft. 

 long, the latter Avith 20-40 branches, the lower a foot long. Flower 

 reaching a length of 3-3-| in. ; tube funnel-shaped, I in. long ; 

 segments yellowish, 1-1 i in. long. Stamens twice as long as the 

 segments. Capsule oblong, 2 in. long. 



Hab. Widely spread in Tropical America and now introduced in many 

 parts of the Old World. It is said to have been introduced into Europe about 

 the middle of the 16th century, and to have first flowered in England at 

 Hampton Court in 1714. For a full account of its history see a paper by 

 DanielH in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. xvii. p. 49 — 138, tabs. 5 — 10. Martins (Fl. 

 Bras. iii. 185) enumerates fifty books in which it is mentioned between 1554 

 and 1748. A. IliUeri Haw. [A. virginica Miller non Linn.) is a dwarf variety, 

 and A. picta Salmdyck and A. ornata Jacobi forms with variegated leaves. I 

 cannot from the descriptions distinguish clearly A. Fuerstenhcrgil and e.vpaiisa 

 Jacobi. 



Group 5. Rigid.!'.. 



61. A. Decaisneana Jacobi, Nacht. 28. — Acaulescent. Leaves 

 oblong-spathulate, about 14 in. long, 3 in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed to 2 in. above the base, a light rather shining green, the 

 face concave, the end- spine strong and nearly black, the edge 

 margined by crowded minute deltoid black teeth, which are rather 

 recurved at the tip. Liflorescence unknown. 



Hab. Mexico. Introduced about 1869. Described by Jacobi from a speci- 

 men in the Jardin des Plantes at Pai-is. 



62. A. Warelliana Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 264, fig. 

 53. — Acaulescent. Leaves about 30 in a rosette, oblong-spathulate, 



