186 HANDBOOK OF AMARYLLIDE^. 



81. A. (Euagave) Newberryi Engelm. Notes, 21. — Acaulescent. 

 Leaves ensiform, 7-10 in. long, | in. broad above the dilated base, 

 rigid, entire, narrowed gradually to a pungent brown end-spine f in. 

 long. Peduncle slender, 8 ft. long. Panicle narrow, lax ; branches 

 1-3 in. apart, 1-2 in. long, bearing each 2-5 flowers, which are 

 only an inch long, including the ovary, with a short tube and 

 oblong segments. Stamens but little exserted, inserted low down 

 in the tube. 



Hab. Mountains of North-West Arizona, alt. 4000 ft., discovered by Dr. 

 J. S. Newberry in March, 1848. 



82. A. HouLLETii Jacobi, Monogr. 256. — Acaulescent. Leaves 

 30-40 in a rosette, oblanceolate, 1-li ft. long, 2 in. broad above 

 the middle, narrowed to an inch above the dilated base, bright 

 green, glaucous on the back towards the base, quite entire on the 

 margin, the pungent end-spine ^ in. long. Lifiorescence unknown. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Described|by Jacobi from the Belgian Gardens in 

 1865. I have seen it alive both at Kew and Eeigate. It may be an extreme 

 variety of A, rigida. 



Group 8. — Geminiflor^. 



83. A. {Littcea) geminiflora Gawl. in Brandes Journ. iii. t. 1 ; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 1145; Reich. Ic. Exot. t. 209-210; Spin, in Cat. 

 Hort. Sebast. 1823, 3, with figure. Littaa geminifim^a Tagl. — 

 Acaulescent. Leaves 200-300 in a dense rosette, recurved, linear, 

 If- 2 ft. long, ^-\ in. broad at the middle, bright green, convex on 

 both sides, not striated, the pale edge splitting off into fine 

 threads, the tip slightly pungent. Peduncle 18-24 ft. long, 

 including the dense spike. Flowers lJ-2 in. long; tube sub- 

 cylindrical, ^ in. long ; segments linear, greenish brown, twice as 

 long as the tube. Filaments twice as long as the segments. 



Hab. Mexico, introduced into cultivation in 1797. It first flowered in 

 1815 in the garden of Count Von Litta, after whom the genus Littcea was 

 named. It is often found in English gardens under the name of Bonapartea 

 juncea, and has also been called Draccena Boscii and Yucca Boscii. A. Taylori 

 Hort. Williams (Gard. Chron. 1877 ii. 125) is a garden hybrid, of which 

 geminiflora is one parent and filamentosa (not densiflora, as has been stated) 

 probably the other. 



Group 9. — Aloide^. 



84. A regia Balier in Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 620, fig. 124. A, 

 revoluta Hort. Peacock. — Acaulescent. Leaves 12-15 in a rosette 

 oblong-spathulate, If-l^- ft. long, 4-5 in. broad at the middle, 

 narrowed to 2-3 in. above the base, bright green on the flat face, 

 the subpungent brown tip ^ in. long, the prickles moderately 

 close, brown, deltoid, not more than l-12th inch long, the upper 

 ascending, the lower deflexed. Inflorescence unknown. 



Hab. Probably Mexico. Seen alive in the Kew, Eeigate, and Hammer- 

 smith collections. 



85. A. melanacantha Lemaire; Jacobi, Monogr. 117. — Acaule- 

 scent. Leaves few in a rosette, oblong-spathulate, about a foot 



