THE AGAVEAE OF GUATEMALA.* 



WILLIAM TEELEASE. 



The records of Agave and Furcraea as Guatemalan 

 plants are neither extensive nor convincing. Hemsley 

 in his summary of Central American plants attributes 

 Agave Sartorii and A. Seemanniana 1 to Guatemala, as 

 he does Furcraea longaeva and F. Selloa. 2 



Agave Sartorii is a species characteristic of the for- 

 ests of the coastwise flanks of Mt. Orizaba, Mexico, 

 where, as Roezl 3 notes for A. attenuata, and as I have 

 myself observed about Cuernavaca, in western Mexico, 

 for A. Mescal, it is sometimes epiphytic. The name 

 given it is commemorative of Sartorius, a German 

 settler, whose hacienda El Mirador at Huatusco, in the 

 Mexican state of Vera Cruz, is the type locality of 

 numerous species collected either by him or by the 

 botanical guests who even yet make it their headquar- 

 ters. The only reason for supposing that A. Sartorii 

 occurs in Guatemala lies in the statement of its de- 

 scriber 4 that it was sent by Rohrbach to Berlin from Ori- 

 zaba, and also by Sartorius to Darmstadt from the same 

 place or from Guatemala? Agave Seemanniana is said 



*Presented before The Academy of Science of St. Louis, June 7, 1915. 



i Biologia Centrali-Americana. 3: 349. 



2?. c. 3: 353. 



3 Roezl, Belgique Horticole. 1882: 98. 



* Koch, Wochenschr. Verein Beford. Gartenbau. 3: 37. 1860. 



■ "Andernseits wurde sie durch den Reisenden Sartorius eben daher 

 oder aus Guatemala an den Garten-director Noack in Darmstadt gesen- 

 det." 



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