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It is included because the Saharanpur plant is possibly the 

 same as a form received in the Sibpur Grarden from Burma, and 

 said to be naturalized in that country. Very little is known 

 of this Agave, which is also unidentified; further remarks 

 upon it will be found under Part II. 



The last naturalized Euagave in the Descriptive List is a 

 well-known form in Southern, Central, and North- Western 

 India. In the N. W. it is looked on (as A. Cantala is in 

 some parts of India) as " desi," or " native," but this meatis no 

 more than that it spreads itself without the direct aid of man, 

 and that there is no current tradition of its introduction. 

 This species should be recognized easily by its round compact 

 rosette, by the rather pale tint of the leaves, and their stiff 

 habit. It is the only Agave in North India moreover that 

 develops a conspicuous trunk, though this does not always 

 happen. 



The division which has sometimes been adopted of Euagave 

 into two groups of " caulescent " species and " stemless " seems 

 inconvenient. The same species may under one set of conditions, 

 or at a particular stage of its development, appear to be stem- 

 less and yet develop a conspicuous stem or " caudex" some- 

 what on the plan of a small Palm or a Yucca, at a later period 

 or under altered surroundings. The truth seems to be that all 

 the Euagaves have more or less of a stem above the crown of 

 the rhizome though it usually is concealed by the outer leaves 

 in most of them. At the same time certain species are more 

 apt to develop a manifest trunk than others, although no 

 known Agave attains in this respect the stage arrived at by 

 one of the Furcraeas ( F. longaeva Zuccarini). Probably the 

 "cauiesoent" species shed their outer leaves periodically, 

 pushing up the vegetative cone with more rapidity than the 

 so-called stemless forms, so that the portion of the trunk 

 which has shed the older leaves is large and conspicuous. 



At all events this is something like the process which takes 

 place in the species figured by Wight as " A. vivipara " 

 (1. o. 2024). This well-marked Agave is that most widely 

 spread in the drier parts of India, from Mysore to the Pan jab, 

 though from many interveniug parts it has not been reported. 

 It extends to the very south of India and east to Bengal and 

 Aseam, but does not thrive well in a damp climate. Wight, 

 following Buchanan probably, referred his plant to the 



