AGAVE. 193 



miiintely sernilfite. Pcduiicle 3-4 ft. long, with iinmerons subulate 

 recurved bract-leaves 4-G in. loug ; flowers in a dense spike about 

 2 ft. long. Flower about an inch long ; tube very short ; segments 

 oblong, l in. long. Stamens 2 in. long. Capsule oblong, | m. 

 long. 



Ilab. Nortliern Mexico, near Monterey. Introduced by Dr. Palmer to tlio 

 Cambridge (Harvard) Botanic Garden, where it flowered in 1881. Habit of A. 

 yucccefulia. 



Group 11. — Attenuat.t;. 



IIG. A. iTAiUra) Elkmeetiana Jacobi, Monogr. 178,313; Baker 



in baund. Kef. Bot. t. 1G3 ; Gard. Chron. 187G, ii. fig. 145. 



Acaulescent. Leaves 20-25 in a rosette, oblanceolate-oblong, 

 1^-2 ft. long, 4|-G in. broad above the middle, narrowed to 3-4 in. 

 above the base, slightly glaucous, the face flat above the middle, 

 the tip not at all pungent, the margin pale and quite entire. 

 Peduncle, including the dense 3-4 ft. spike, 12-13 ft. long. 

 Flowers l|-li ft. long; tube scarcely any; segments greeniSi 

 yellow, oblong, h--^ in. long. Stamens 2 ni. long. 



Hab. Mexico, introduced about 1804 and named by Jacobi after his friend 

 M, de Jonge Van Elcmeet, whose fine collection was dispersed in 1873. It was 

 first flowered by Mr. Wilson Saunders at Iteigaic in 18G7. It flowered at Kew 

 in 1877 and 1883. 



117. A. (Littcra) attenuata Salradyck, Hort. Dyck. 303 ; Piev. 

 Hort. 1875, 149, figs. 31-32. A. {/lamr.scens Hook, in Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5333; Gard. Chron. 1887 11.219, fig. 55. A. s^pcrtohilis Horl 

 Trunk reaching a length of 4-5 ft. below the rosette of leaves. 

 Leaves 10-20 in a dense spreading rosette, oblong, 2-2 .i^ ft. lon^, 

 8-9 in. broad above the middle, narrowed to 2^-3 in. above the 

 base, persistently glaucous, the face flat, the tip not at all pungent, 

 the edge pale and quite entire. Peduncle twice as long as the 

 leaves ; bract-leaves adpressed, lanceolate. Spike dense, cernuous, 

 6-8 ft. long. Flower 2 in. long ; segments greenish-yellow' 

 oblong, longer than the funnel-shaped tube. Stamens under 2 in. 

 long. 



Hab. Mexico, introduced into cultivation about 1884. It has flowen^d 

 several times at Kew, beginning with 18(51, and was flgured lately in the 

 ' Gardener's Chronicle ' from a plant that bloomed with Dr. Henriques at 

 Coimbra. 



Group 12. — YivirAR.E. 



118. A. puGiONiFORMis Zuccar. in Nova Acta xvi. 2, G7G. 



Acaulescent. Leaves linear, H-2 ft. long, G-8 lines broad, 

 glauccscent, narrowed gradually to a firm dark brown end-spine 

 i-f in. long,, slightly concave on the face, the teeth small, distant, 

 deltoid-cuspidate, dark brown, straight or uncinate. Liflorescence 

 unknowui. 



Hab. Mexico, introduced about 1830. I have never seen this species. 



119. A. SERRULATA Karw. in Otto Gartenzeit. 1842, 51. 



Acaulescent. Leaves ensifoi-m, 2-2^ ft. long, an inch broad at the 

 middle, narrowed to l in. above the base, glaucescent, the face 



