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Bomb. PL 272'; ? of Galeotti ; not of Dal*, and Gibs, which is 

 A. Wightii, nor of Prain, which is A. Vera Cruz ; Aloe sp. (sub 

 Sempervimm mojus) Rumph. Herb. Amboin. V. L 9&. Fourcroya 

 Cantala, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. ; Agave vivipara, Dah. 

 and Gibs. Bomb. FL ; Bak. in Gard. Chron. N. S. viii. (1877) 

 780 ; not of Linnaeus nor of others. 



INDO-CHINA ; Burma ; Tenasserim, Moulmein, BurJcill 23949. 



INDIA : Tirbut ; Chilwara, Campbell, Tarkaulia, Burlcill and Prain 18918, 

 18921, 18928 ! ! Upper Gangetic Plain ; EtsnvHh, Saharanpur ! ! Dehra Dun, 

 Basu \ Panjab Siwaliks ; Patankot, BurJcill 15005. Western India : Thana 

 Bassein, BurJcill 16656, Salsette, BurJciU 16684, Coorla, BurJcill 16701; 

 Deccan, Majuri, BurJcill 21845 ! Poona, Satara Road, Kolhapur, Belgauin, 

 BurJcill; S. India, Circara, BurJcill ; Rajainandri, BurJcill, 17829, Parlaki- 

 mcdi, Burkill 20421 ! Vizagapatam, Ganjam and Anantapur Dist. Barber 

 2514 ! Godaveri, Barber 2541, 2568 ! S. Canara, Barber 2540, 2600 ! Chicacole, 

 Barber 2088 ! C. India, Dongagarb and Narsingpur ! BurTcill, very common 

 about Hyderabad, BurUll, 25026 ! 



DISTEIB. Bangka, Lindgreen, fide Kurz ; Amboyna Rumphius ; Philip- 

 pines ! Native country unknown. 



A. Rumphii Hassk., ex descriptione, is not A. Cantala 

 Eoxb. : A. laxa Zuccarini [Bak. Gard. Chron. N. S. VIII (1877) 

 788 fig. 151] seems near the more flaccid form of A. Cantala. 

 A. angustifolia Haworth, from St. Helena, is also possibly the 

 same. Mr. Burhilt notes that the freshly cut leaves of this 

 species smell like Rhubarb. The " A. americana " from which 

 fibre is said to be got in China (Tropenpflamer Y. 128) may be 

 this species. Specimens of A. Cantala are often marked in 

 collections and herbaria ' A vivipara '. 



Agave sp F 



Leaves narrowly oblong, ten to twenty, tufted on a very short 

 rather narrow caudex, never forming a rosette, making a sharp 

 angle with the main axis, stiff and erect, sometimes pale or 

 bluish, usually a dull green, 4-5 ft. long, breadth almost 

 uniform from the gradually narrowed lower portion to the 

 rather suddenly acuminate tip, small in proportion to the 

 length, at the widest point above the middle from 3J to 4| in., 

 marginal prickles rather distant weak and not prominent, chest- 

 nut or garnet coloured, their hooks sharp ascending, terminal 

 spine stout conical i in. and more long, brown, slightly 

 channelled ; scape reaching 15 20 ft. with the panicle, branches 

 of the inflorescence more or less zigzag or flexuous ; germen an 

 inch long spindle-shaped constricted just btlow the perianth 



