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decurrent ; scape twelve to fifteen feet high with the panicle, 

 which is oblong-pyramidal, the main branches short tricho- 

 tomous, fascicles rather crowded, germen nearly spindle-shaped 

 rather shorter than the perianth and constricted below it, cup 

 of perinath soon dividing into six lanceolate segments each 

 ending in a narrowly ovate lanceolate limb, which is slightly 

 thickened at the obtuse tip and (in dried specimens) obscurely 

 hooded, greenish yellow ; capsule brown very broadly turbinate 

 li 1J in. long rostrate by the indurated bases of the perianth 

 lobes, seeds opaque dull charcoal-coloured. 



Agave vivipara. Wight Ic. 202J^ ; Eak. Gard. Chron. N. 8. 

 \iii. (1877) 780 easel all syn. except Wight, not of Linnaeus, 

 nor of Hill (Vcg. Syst. xxiii. f. 56 fig. sinistr.) nor of Miller nor 

 of Aiton, nor of Dah. and Gibs. Bomb Flor. Agave Cantula, 

 Date, and Gibs. Bomb. Flor. not of Roxb. 



INDO-CHINA : Sylhet, Moulvi Bazar, planted near villages, but not plentiful, 

 Wyper. 



INDIA: Bengal; Burdwan, Burkill 18930! Hughli-Howrah, in hedges; 

 cult, in Botanic Garden, Calcutta. Tirhut ; Tarkaulia, Burlcill and Prain 

 19923! Upper Gangetic Plain: Moradabad, JBrt72 14954 ! Delhi, Burlcill 

 14963, Rohtak, planted in hedges, Burkill 18184 ! commonly naturalized 

 from Saharanpur and Ludhiana as far as Delhi, J. R. Drummond \ \ Cult. 

 and naturalized in Hort. Saharanpur, Duthie ! Central India ; Gwalior, 

 Maries ! Dehra Dun, Basu\ Deccan ; Berar, Burkill 19179, Buldana, 

 BurTcill 19179 ! Takari, Burkill 16706, Sattara Road, Burlcill ; Poona, 

 Burlcill 25816 ! Western India ; Bombay, Burlcill 16677 and 16687 ! 

 South India; Madras, cult, and naturalized in and near Agri-Horticultural 

 Society's Garden ; Chingleput, in hedges, Barber 2402 ! Madura, Barber 

 2504 ! Tanjore Dist., Barber 2515, 2565 ! Malabar Dist., Barber 2535 ! 



DISTBICT. Native country unknown. A variegated form cultivated in 

 public gardens throughout India is very near this, if not identical. 



Agave decipiens Baker . . . K 



Leaves fleshy linear many closely inserted on an often erect 

 caudex which attains 3 to 4 feet in height, forming a compact 

 radiating tuft, of which the outer leaves are nearly at right 

 angles with the axis, the inner making gradually an acuter 

 angle, 2 4 ft. long, widest just below the middle where the 

 breadth seldom exceeds 3J in., basal fifth of leaf bluntly 

 trigonous, convex on the sides forming a stalk, upper portion 

 concave often forming a deep U-shaped trough above the 

 middle, the whole leaf stiff, glossy apple-green, more or less 

 recurved and falcate longitudinally, marginal prickles half an 



