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the Spanish author. Mr. Baker (Gard. Qhron. 1877, vol. VII, 

 p. 200) keeps up an Agave Theometel, Zuccagni. Zuccagni 

 identified his species with the Theometel of Hernandez, 

 but Mr. Baker remarks that it may be a mere variety of 

 A. americana Linn. 



Returning now to the Historia Plantarum, Ray's first 

 Euagave is clearly A americana Linn., and his second we 

 may take as=A. Theometel of Zuccagni. In his account of 

 the uses of the first he has not escaped the general confusion, 

 and attributes qualities to the A. americana of N. Europe 

 gardens which it cannot claim, but the species that he meant 

 to indicate was that which Linnaeus afterwards named " aweri- 

 cana" although Clusius is cited. 



The third kind of this group rests on a description which 

 seems to be quoted from Hermann but is not to be found in the 

 Paradisus or the Catalogue. This description answers to the 

 woodcut of the "Maguey" in Hernandez, which as already 

 said cannot be an Agave. 



Boerhaaue (Catalogue of Plants in the Ley den Garden 

 1720) does not refer to it, and from the flowers it cannot be 

 Hermann's " sobolifera " with which Pluhenet and others have 

 identified it. 



There remains the Aloe purpurea laems of Munting of 

 presumed Agaves. As already said we think this must have 

 been Agave sisalana Perrine, though the purple tint ascribed 

 to the edges of tha leaves would fit Sansevieria better ; as it 

 happens, however, the leaves of the bulbils in A. sisalana as 

 well as the species H of our descriptive list are spotted with 

 violet-purple, which we have not observed in any other 

 Euagave. 



The first Caraguata (aloe brasiliensis) seems to be an Agave 

 of the Littaea group ; and the second may belong there also. 



The third (caraguataguaqu) has been usually supposed to be 

 a Furcraea and is probably = Furcraea tuberosa, Alton. 



The Caraguata a^anga manifestly belongs to the Brome- 

 liaceae and is doubtless, as observed by Ray himself, the 

 Mexocotl of Hernandez. 



In the Hortus Clifortianus, 1737, Linne describes certain 

 species of Aloe (out of which, as before, we exclude all but 

 those belonging to the tribe or natural order of Agaveae) as 

 follows : 



