36 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



H. funifera (Koch) Trelease. 



H. Davyi Baker, Kew Bull. 1898 : 226. 



//. Engelmanni Baillou, Hist, des PI. 12 : 511. Urbina, Cat. PI. Hex. 

 352. 



Yucca funifera Koch, Belg. Hort. 12:132. (1862). Lemaire, 111. 

 Hort. 13:99. (1866). Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18:228. 



Agave funifera Lemaire, 111. Hort. 11 : Misc. 65. [66a]. (1864). 



Often cespitose. Leaves larger, at length less concave, often with 

 much coarser marginal fibers. Inflorescence 2 to 2.5 m. high, few 

 branched near the top. Pedicels and flowers purplish green, glaucous, 

 the latter about 25 mm. long; style scarcely exserted. Capsule 25 to 50 

 mm. long, with strong beak, the false septum evanescent or protruding 

 into the cell only toward the base, where it forms a large thin tooth ; seeds 

 6X9 mm. Plates 3. 4,f. 1. 81, f. 8. 



Northern Mexico, between the Rio Grande and the Sabinas, 

 and, apparently, in the state of San Luis Potosi (Pringle, 

 3911). Plate 92, f. 1. 



The Engelmann herbarium contains a fruiting fragment, 

 at first referred to Yucca but afterward to ffesperaloe, col- 

 lected in 1847 by Dr. Wislizenus at Cerralvo, northeast of 

 Monterey. Similar capsules were brought by Dr. Parry, in 

 1878, from the plains between Monterey and the Rio 

 Grande." The herbarium of the Field Columbian Museum 

 contains excellent specimens of the same plant from Buste- 

 mente, in the State of Nuevo Leon, collected by Henry W. 

 Wood in July, 1900. In 1891, Mr. Pringle made good 

 leaf and fruit specimens, representing the same genus, at 

 the Hacienda de Angostura, east of San Luis Potosi, which 

 were distributed as IT. Engelmanni, under the number 

 3911, and so referred to by Bail! on. 



In March, 1900, when going over the Mexican Interna- 

 tional railroad, north of the Sabinas river, I observed a 

 considerable quantity of what was evidently a Hesperaloe, 

 with persisting capsules of the preceding year, which came 

 down to the railroad only on the higher ridges through 

 which cuts had been made. Toward the end of April, 

 when the plants had begun to bloom, I visited this region 

 again, and some six kilometers south of Peyotes collected 



