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mature, l-lj in. broad at the middle, narrowed to ^ in. above the 

 base, shallow! y channelled down the face, dull green copiously 

 mottled with confluent brown spots, closely denticulate on the 

 cartilaginous margin. Peduncle 3-4 ft. long. Flowers laxly or 

 densely spicate. Perianth 1-1 i in. long; tube ^-^ in. long, 

 broadly funnel-shaped; segments linear-oblong, 2-3 times the 

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

 Capsule oblong, under an inch long. 



Hab. Mexico ; Mountains of San Luis Potosi, alt. 6000—8000 ft., Scliaffner 

 505 ! 506 ! Parry d- Palmer 865 ! Described partly from living plants at Kew, 

 received from Max Leichtlin. 



137. A. [Manfredd) guttata Jacobi and Bouche, Monogr. 190; 

 Naclit. ii. 87. — Acaulescent. Leaves few, lanceolate, spreading, 

 15-16 in. long, 2 in. broad below the middle, deeply channelled 

 down the green face, paler beneath with subpruhiose streaks, 

 with reddish-brown blotches on both surfaces, subentire on the 

 edge. Flowers 1^ in. long; segments linear oblong, twice as long 

 as the short funnel-shaped tube. Stamens 2 in. long. 



Hab. Mexico. Introduced to the Berlin Botanic Garden about 1860, by 

 Ehrenberg, and flowered there in 1870. 



138. A. (Mtnif reiki) undulata Klotzsch in Otto & Dietr. Garten- 

 zeit, 1840, 274. A. driiuuBfolia Hort. — Acaulescent. Leaves a 

 dozen or more in a rosette, lanceolate, 1^ ft. long, \\ in. broad, 

 deeply channelled down the face, dull glaucous green, not spotted, 

 much undulated, the narrow cartilaginous edge obscurely serrulate. 

 Peduncle 3-4 ft. long. Flowers above 1^ in. long; segments 

 twice as long as the tube. Stamens much exserted. 



Hab. Mexico. Introduced to the Berlin Garden in 1840 and flowered there 

 in 1869. 



61. FuRCR^A Ventr' 

 {Fourcroya E. & S.). 



Perianth rotate ; tube short, cylindrical ; segments oblong, 

 subequal, spreading horizontally. Stamens short, attached to the 

 throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments erect, very strumose in the 

 lower half; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovari/ oblong, 3-celled ; 

 ovules many, superposed ; style erect, strumose, with three pro- 

 minent angles towards the base ; stigma capitate. Capsule oblong, 

 loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds flat, with a thin black testa. — Acaul- 

 escent or caulescent. Leaves densely rosulate, usually rigid, spine- 

 pointed and spine-edged. Flowers laxly panicled, greenish white, 

 1-3-nate, often replaced by bulbilhi), from which the plant can be 

 readily reproduced ; pedicels articulated ; bracts small, mem- 

 branous. 



Subgenus Furcr^a proper. — Leaves firm in texture, usually edged 

 with deltoid spines, entire between them. 

 Group of (jigantea. — Trunk long below the 

 rosette of leaves Sp. 1. 



* lieprintcd, with slight alteration, from Gard. Chron. 1879, i. 623, 656. 



