Agave Vera-Cruz . . . . D 



Leaves linear-oblong, many, from a short stout trunk which 

 is hidden by their thickened bases, sage green often very 

 glaucous, early curving upwards, the ends usually more or less 

 recurved or drooping, four to six feet long, often rather concave 

 at the widest part which is above the middle and attains a breadth 

 of ten inches and upwards, neck hardly constricted, leaf margins 

 little indented or nearly straight between the prickles, which 

 are broad stout, black or dark-coloured, spreading or decurved, 

 interval between the prickles about half an inch or less, seldom 

 f- in. ; terminal spine shortly channelled, ^ 1 in. long, dark 

 brown, not or \ery shortly decurrent; inflorescence panicled, 

 trichotomous as regards the main branches which are curved 

 and flattened, blossoms in pairs with a subsidiary bud laterally 

 developed at a different level ; germen smooth cylindric longer 

 than the perianth, perianth-lobes linear-lanceolate of a pale 

 amber tint, cup herbaceous, stamens much exserted, anthers half 

 an inch in length and upwards, pollen dull-yellow, style very 

 faintly lobed, capsule rather turgid oblong-cylindrical, tip 

 rounded, seeds black shining. Miller, Gard. Diet. ed. 8. n. 7. 



Agave lurida, Zuccarini in Nov. Act. Leop. Carol, xvi. 2. 

 670, tt. &9, 50 ; Mart. Flor. Bras. Hi. /, 185 ; Bak. in Gard. 

 Chron. N. S. viii.. 26& (1877) excl. var. Jacquiniana and ref. ; 

 not of Jacquin Coll. iv. 9&, t. J; nor of Gawkr Bot. Mag* 

 1522. Agave Yera Crucis Haw. Syn. Succ. 72. 



INDO-CHINA : Burma; Taungtha, Burkill 23,777! aud other localities 

 in dry Central Burma, Burkill : Assam ; Cachar, Burkill 16260 ! Brahma- 

 putra Valley, frequent, Burkill 19958 ! 



INDIA: Bengal, Katihar, Burkill 20871 ! Gangetic delta, frequent; Botanic 

 Garden, Shibpur, cultivated : Upper Gangetic Plain; from Tirhoot (in hedges) 

 to Rohtak (S- E. Panjab), Burkill 18173, but usually planted; cultivated 

 in Botanic Gardens as far as Lahore. Chota Nagpur; Singhbhum, Burkill 

 19759! Central India; Bilaspur : Western India; Bombay, cultivated Burkill 

 16682! 16686! Deccan ; Miraj, Burkill 16712 ! South India: Bellary, Burkill; 

 Chingleput, Barber 2401 ! Gantur, Barber 2042, 2085, Chingleput, Barber 2086, 

 Kurnool, Barber 2041, 2068, Salem, Barber 2070, Kistna, Barber 2501, Coim - 

 batore, Barber, 2502, Madura Barber, 2503, 2505, Anantapur Barber 2513, 

 S. Arcot, Barber 2516, Cuddapah, Barber 2517, Nellore, Barber 2518, Tanjore, 

 Barber 2529, N. Arcot, Barber 2531, Bellary, Barber 2003, 2532, Godaveri, 

 Barber 2533, Tinnevelly, Barber 2587, 2591 Vizagapatarn, Barber 2594; Circars : 

 Parlakemedi, Burkill 24420 ! Ganjam ; in hedges at Chatrapur. Madras Agri- 

 Horticultural Society's Garden cultivated : naturalized ia Mysore, Sutler \ 



The references in Aiton Hortus Kewensis ii. 302 Willdenow 

 Species Plantarum ii. 193 and Gawkr Bot. Mag. i. 1522 are 



