AGAVE. 185 



October, 1876. Dr. Palmer got it lately in Coahuila. It sometimes passes 

 muster in gardens as Yucca Inj.stri.v, and sometimes as DasjjUrion jiinceum. A 

 quadrilocular cajisule has lately been figured by Terracino in Nuov. Giorn. 

 Bot. Ital. xvii. 1. 19. 



77. A. (Littaia) falcata Engelm. Notes, 16. A. californica 

 Jacobi. — Acaulescent. Leaves 20-30 in a rosette, linear, 1|— 2 ft. 

 long, l—f in. broad above the tlilated base, rigid, glaucous, 

 narrowed gradually to the horny brown pungent tip, scabrous on 

 the margin, distinctly keeled on the face, subtriquetrous on the 

 back, distinctly striated on both surfaces. Peduncle 4-8 ft. long, 

 including the lax spike. Flowers 1-1^ in. long ; tube broadly 

 funnel-shaped, nearly as long as the oblong segments. Stamens 

 lJ-2 in. long, inserted at the middle of the tube. Capsule oblong- 

 trigonous, l^-f in. long. 



Hab. Mexico ; mountains of Coahuila. Palmer 1314, Pringle ! Discovered 

 by Drs. Wislizenus and Gregg in 184(3 — 1848. Introduced into cultivation about 

 1867. It was first described by Jacobi from a living plant at Kew. It is not 

 known to grow in California. 



78. A. (Littcca) paucifolia Todaro, Hort. Bot. Panorm. i. 77, 

 t. 19. — Acaulescent. Leaves few, rigid, linear, 1\ ft. long, f in. 

 broad, finely striated, convex on the face, scabrous on the margin, 

 pungent at the apex, the base suddenly dilated. Peduncle slender, 

 about 4 ft. long. Flowers few, subspicate, greenish, 1|- in. long ; 

 limb as long as the ovary ; tube equalling the oblong segments. 

 Stamens purplish, 1-1\ in. long. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Described by Dr. Todaro from a plant that 

 flowered at the Palermo Botanic Garden in 1877. 



79. A. (Littcea) dasylirioides Jacobi and Bouche, Monogr. 150; 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5716 ; Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, 2, fig. 111. 

 A. dealbata Lemaire. — Acaulescent. Leaves 80-100 in a dense 

 rosette, linear, very glaucous, 1^-3 ft. long, |-1 in. broad above 

 the dilated base, stiffly erecto-patent or falcate, flat on the face and 

 hardly at all convex on the back, narrowed gradually from the 

 middle to a short pungent point, serrulate on the margin, finely 

 striated vertically on both surfaces. Peduncle 10-12 ft. long, 

 including the long dense often cernuous spike. Flowers If-lf in. 

 long; tube broadly funnel-shaped, ^ in. long; segments yellow, 

 twice as long as the tube. Stamens 1| in. long. 



Hab. Mexico. Figured in the ' Botanical Magazine ' from a plant that 

 flowered at the Kegent's Park in January, 18G8. It has since flowered several 

 times both at Pieigate and Kew, the last time in 1887. 



Group 7. — Integrifolle. 



80. A. iNTEGRiFOLiA Baker. — Acaulescent. Leaves about 30 in 

 a dense rosette, rigid, oblanceolate, recurving, very glaucous, entire, 

 5-6 in. long, 1-1^ in. broad above the middle, narrowed gradually 

 to the base and suddenly to a brown pungent end-spine f in. long, 

 the margin entire. Inflorescence unknown. 



Hab. Mexico. Described from a plant received at Kew from the Missouri 

 Botanic Garden in 1885. 



