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Agave sp. A 



Leaves linear-oblong 20-30 in a very lax rosette from a 

 moderately thickened base, deep green with a glaucous bloom, 

 tapering rather quickly in the upper portion, about 5 feet in 

 length and as many inches in breadth at the widest part 

 rather above the middle, marginal prickles minute but sharp, 

 when young garnet-coloured, pointing both upwards and 

 downwards, sometimes absent in the upper portions of the 

 leaf altogether; terminal spine brown, subulate, slightly 

 channelled. 



INDO-CHINA: liurma; Tenasserim. 



DISTEIB. : Unknown. 



This we suppose to be the same as a plant cultivated in 

 the Saharanpur Bot. Garden under the erroneous name of 

 "A.IxtiW." 



Agave americana Linn. B 



Leaves lanceolate, many in a lax rosette from a short stout 

 prostrate or ascending trunk which is usually hidden by their 

 thick bases, deep green, often variegated with white or pale 

 yellow longitudinal stripes or borders, sometimes rather 

 glaucous ; at base spreading, then ascending, tips sometimes 

 recurved, 4 to 6 ft. long and as much as half a foot broad 

 above the middle; sharply constricted just above the base; 

 margins armed with strong dark brown prickles mostly pointing 

 downwards, leaf edge between the prickles concavely indented, 

 terminal spine slightly grooved dull brown 1 to 2 in. long 

 derived from the upper leaf margins which for about three 

 inches from the top are involute and horny ; scape with the 

 panicle 15 to 25 ft. in height, primary branches of the 

 inflorescence almost horizontal, fascicles of blossoms crowded 

 at the ends of subsidiary ascending branches ; germen faintly 

 sulcate about equalling the perianth or shorter than it, perianth 

 lobes ovate lanceolate tips obtuse, amber-coloured as are also 

 the filaments, pollen orange yellow, style faintly three-lobed 

 capitate ; capsule bluntly trigonous or oblong-cylindrical, rather 

 broader upwards. 



Linn. Sp. PL (Ed. 1) i. 323 ; Kunth, Emm. V. 819 ; 



Thornton, New llluxtr. aft. p. 100 (also col. fig. in Select 



plants) ; Andr. Bot. Rep. vii. t. b83 (sphalmate 



