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the perianth, lobes of perianth dilated, almost saccate below, 

 blade suddenly narrowed ligulate diminishing to the obtuse 

 tip which is subspathulate, capsule about 2 in. long narrowly 

 turbinate strongly sulcate at the top especially. 



INDO-CHINA: Burma; Southern Shan States, Lwekaw and Saga, Abdul 

 Khalil! 



INDIA : Bengal, planted in a hedge at Barrackpur ! ! Upper Gangetic Plain ; 

 Saharanpur and elsewhere, planted and naturalized in hedges ! ! Dehra Dun ; 

 naturalized and in hedges ! Cultivated at Lucknovv, where received from 

 Central India, also at Lahore. Madras; N. Arcot, BurJcill 15145 ! Chingleput 

 2087, Barber ! 



DISTEIB, Nat. country unknown. 



This is the finest of the naturalized Indian species and 

 might, by the description, be near an Agave from Jamaica 

 (Sir D. Morris) described by Mr. Baker as A. Morrisii in 

 Gard. Chron. Ser. Hi. /, part 1, (1887) p. 59, fig. 105, 

 but we think that the Indian plant is very closely allied 

 to A. sisal ana. The freshly cut leaves smell like stalks of 

 Rhubarb. 



Agave Wightii nobis* . . . j 



Leaves ensiform linear-lanceolate, very many, inserted in 

 a compact series on a stout usually conspicuous trunk which is 

 partly procumbent, or throughout ascending, forming a stiff 

 even rosette 3 to 5 feet in diameter, pale green often tinged 

 with ashy grey, base thin broadly amplexicaul, length attaining 

 3 feet, but not more than 2^ in. on an average, breadth at the 

 middle where the leaf is widest 3J in. or less, flat or very 

 slightly convex; marginal prickles rather weak about J in, 

 apart, sometimes spreading or erect, but usually consisting of a 

 small brown cushion carrying a semi-transparent garnet- coloured 

 spine which is often sharply recurved parallel to the leaf 

 edge, but ends in a finely -barbed hook which invariably points 

 upwards, terminal spine about half an inch long, pale, slightly 



* A. "Wightii nobis. Caudice amplo manifesto, foliis 2 3-pedalibus 

 medio circa tres uncias latis basi parurn incrassata late dilatata summum caudicem 

 amplectentibus lineari-lanceolatis griseo-viridibus, foliorum margine spinis 

 uncinatis primum refractis apice deiuuin ascendente munito, scapo ad 15 pedes 

 altitudinis assurgente paniculam oblongam sustinente, perigonii lobis superne in 

 unguem subito angustatis vix uncialibus obtussttis unguibus denique herbaceis 

 incrassatis cum capsula ovato-turbinata pro rostro persistentibus, seimnibus 

 opacis. 



