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FURCR.EA 



FUS^A 



III. 23, p. 227 (as F. gigantea) . A form of this, rosy tinged 

 and without marginal prickles, edentata, Trel., has been 

 intro. from the Colombian Andes recently by Pittier. 



". Humboldtiana, Trel. (Yilcca acaiilis, HBK.). 

 Trunk finally 10 ft. : Ivs. spreading, nearly fiat, grayish, 

 smooth, 5-6x60 in.; teeth }4-H in. long, usually 

 divergently twinned from the tops of green prominences, 

 l-2>i in. apart: infl. 25-40 ft., long-stalked; fls. 2-2J^ 

 in.; ovary *^-l in.; segm. I^-IJ^ in. Venezuela. Ann. 

 Jard. Buitenzorg. II. suppl. 3:38. — Called maguey 

 de cocui by Humboldt; now commonly known as 

 cocuiza brava in contrast with an unarmed cult, form, 

 the cocuiza mansa, which may prove not to differ from 

 F. inermis, Drum. {F. cubensis inennis, Baker. F. 

 aWssma, Hort. Franceschi). B.M. 6543. Intermediate 



1612. Fus^a longifolia. (XM) 

 a, perfect stamen; b, petal-like staminode: c, fruit. 



between this and the next is the cabuya of Cent. Amer., 

 F. Cabuya, Trel., which Ukewise presents armed and 

 toothless forms. Ann. Jard. Buitenzorg. III. suppl. 

 3:36, 37. 



8. gigantea, Vent. {F. BqrilleUii, F. fdetida, Agave 

 Jdtida, Linn. A. gigantea. Aloe fdetida, Crantz. Fii- 

 nium pUiferiim, Willem.). Nearly trunkless: Ivs. 

 broadly oblanceolate, nearly fiat, undulate, somewhat 

 roughened beneath, 5-8x60-100 in., entire: infl. 25 ft., 

 long-stalked, rather narrow; fls. 1^5 in., with ovary and 

 segm. equal: caps, unknown: freely bulbiferous. S. E. 

 Brazil. DC, PI. Gr. 126, 126o. Redouts, Lil. 476. 

 B.M. 22.50. Perrine, Senate Doc. 300:5. B.H. 10:34. 

 Indian For. 35:23. Mart., Fl. Bras. 1:44. Ann. Mus. 

 Marseille. II; 8, p. 125. Squier, Fibre PI., 2. Jacq. Icon. 

 379. Commehn, Hort. Amst. 2 : 18. — The Mediterranean 

 hemp, Mauritius hemp, taretra, green aloe, or pita, 

 intro. by way of Madagascar and hence called Mal- 

 gache aloe. Varies with moderate toothing, var. 



Willemetiana, Roem. {F. Commelinii, Agavs Com- 

 melinii, Auct.), the Creole aloe. Ann. Jard. Buiten- 

 zorg. II. Suppl. 3:35. With broad median creamy 

 variegation, the unarmed form is var. medio-picta, 

 Trel. (F. gigantea variegata, Hort. F. variegdta, Hort. 

 F. Watsoniana, Hort.). G.C. III. 23, p. 243. Ann. 

 Jard. Buitenzorg, II. Suppl. 3:41, 42, 46-8. 



9. tuberosa, Ait. (F. interrupta, F. spindsa. Agave 

 spindsa, A. campanulata, A. tuberosa. Yucca superba, 

 Auct.). Nearly trunkless: Ivs. broadly lanceolate, 

 nearly flat, 8x50-70 in.; teeth usually }iin. long 

 and %-\M in. apart, sometimes absent toward the 

 end or below: infl. 25 ft.: caps, unknown: freely bul- 

 biferous, the bulbels elongated. Cuba and Haiti and, 

 in somewhat differing forms, in Porto Rico and through 

 the Lesser Antilles. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 18:1-4. 

 R.H. 1877, p. 233. Cyclo. Amer, Agric, II. p. 290. Gt. 

 1852:3. Yearbook Dept. Agric. 1904:31. Ann. 

 Mus. Firenze. 1:4. Commelin, Hort. Amts. 2:19. 

 — Commonly called silk-grass, sometimes maguey 

 or cocuiza: apparently the Haitian cabuya of early 

 writers. With the teeth twinned, as they are sometimes 

 in F. Selloa and characteristically in F. Humboldti- 

 ana, it is var. geminispina {F. geminisp'inu, Ait.) 



William Trelease. 



FURZE; Uhj, particularly U. euTo-pxus. 



FUS.^A (probably from Latin fundo, signifying 

 melted or fused together, referring to the carpels). 

 Annondcese. South American trees or shrubs, resem- 

 bUng Annona in the form of fruit, a solid, spheroid syn- 

 carpium composed of one-ovuled carpels fused together, 

 but differing from that genus in having its petals 

 imbricate or overlapping and in the outer circles of its 

 stamens which are sterile and petaloid. — A genus of 

 very few species. Fussea longifolia was first described 

 as Annona longifolia by Aublet. It was afterwards 

 placed in the genera Duguetia and Aberemoa, from 

 the last-named of which it was set apart by Baillon 

 as the type of a subgenus or section Fussea. In the 

 genera Duguetia and Aberemoa, however, the carpels 

 are discrete, or separate, and not fused together; in 

 the former the indumentum is usually stellate-pubes- 

 cent or scurfy, and in the latter the carpels are not 

 only quite distinct but are borne on short pedicels. 

 From the structural features above mentioned, it is 

 evident that it merits generic rank. 



longifdlia, Safford (Duguetia longifolia, Baill. Annona 

 longifolia, Aubl.) Pinacoda. Carib Apple. Fig. 1612. 

 A small tree: Ivs. oblong-acuminate, mucronate and 

 smooth: fls. issuing from near the base of small 

 branchlets growing from the axils of the If.-scars 

 of the preceding year, the 2 series of petals much 

 alike; outer stamens sterile and petaloid: fr. ovate- 

 globose, resembhng a solid ball, its surface reticu- 

 lated with shallow impressed hnes, nearly smooth, 

 flesh-colored. Guiana. — According to Aublet, the fr. 

 has a good flavor and is eaten with relish by the 

 Garipon and Gahba (Carib) Indians of French 

 Guiana. Intro, into Fla. as a fr.-plant, but very 

 little known. Closely related to this species and 

 possibly identical with it is the Peruvian F. rhom- 

 bipetala, Safford (Annona rhombipetala, Ruiz. & Pav.) 

 with petals clothed on the outside with appressed 

 sericeous hairs, outer stamens petaloid and connivent 

 as in F. longifolia, ^sin. long, smooth near the base and 

 minutely puberulent on the outside near the apex; 

 and obovate-oblong Ivs. with short thick petioles 

 and sharply acuminate apices, the midrib and lateral 

 nerves impressed on the upper surface and prominent 

 beneath, the extremities of the latter connected by a 

 submarginal nerve almost continuous from the base 

 to the apex. w. E. Safford. 



