of India remains doubtful. It occurs with other Agaves 

 throughout the Gangetic Plain as far north as Cawnpore but 

 usually though not always planted. Further to the north and 

 west it seems little known and we suspect that the climate of 

 Hindustan and the Pan jab is not well suited to it. In the Royal 

 Garden at Sibpur, where it was introduced by Lord Auckland 

 when Governor-General in 1836, this Agave luxuriates. Its 

 range in Europe (under the continental name of " Agave 

 americana") is shewn in an account and chart in Qartenflora 

 1875 by H. Hoffmann* (p. 70 and t. 825 No. 1). 



Sharp frosts are evidently fatal to it, unless it is artificially 

 protected. This might be expected if it was the plant which 

 Schlede and Deppe saw wild in the country between Yera 

 Cruz and the table-land of Mexico (Linnaea, IF pp. 808, 

 582 etc.] but the brief description of that rather suggests 

 A. Wightii. 



The reasons for giving C a place in the Descriptive List 

 will be fdund under Part II, where it is suggested that this 

 handsome species (formerly named " Jacquiniana " in the 

 Saharanpur Garden) may be Karwinski's A. atrovirens or 

 some closely allied form. 



An important point about the next species in the List 

 (B. = A. Cantala Roxb.) is that though utterly distinct from 

 J of the same = " A. mmpara " of Wight, (in place of which we 

 recommend the name of A. Wightii), it has nevertheless been 

 very frequently confused with it, as will be explained more fully 

 in Part II of this paper. A. Cantala appears to have been 

 the first Agave to reach the East Indies, which it did most 

 likely from the Pacific Coast of Central America. It is well 

 figured in Rumpf's Herb. Amboyn., and that illustration is 

 quoted by Roxburgh as applying to his A. Cantala, which he 

 supposed to be a native of India. 



This seems to be a common hedge plant near Bombay, in 

 the north of Madras, and in the Gangetic Plain, and extends 



* He includes certain stations of flowering in the open in Brittany and the 

 S. W. of England which are usually given to the true A. americana, but it is 

 quite possible that the plants which flowered there were A. Vera-Cruz. 

 A. americana seems to be much hardier, as Miller has noted. The variegated 

 specimen (see Sir W. Hooker's note in Sims) from which plate 3654 Bot. Mag. 

 was taken flowered at Aikenhead in Scotland. 



In August 1901 A. americana Linn, flowered in the open at Kingcausie, 

 Maryculter, Kincardintshire in the N. E. of Scotland (Dr. Irvine Fortescue). 



