136 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



Specimens examined: Guatemala. Cruz (Trelease, 

 2, March, 1915 — the type in the herbarium of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois). 



Agave Hurteri n. sp. 



Acaulescent, not cespitose. Leaves somewhat glau- 

 cous, ascending or outcurving in a rather dense rosette, 

 lance-oblong, rather acute, openly concave, smooth, some 

 10x75-100 cm.: spine chestnut, glossy above, somewhat 

 pitted below, heavily half-conical, nearly straight, very 

 openly grooved from near the end, usually with median 

 keel, the very acute edges decurrent for about its length, 

 more or less intruded into the green tissues on both 

 faces, about 8x40 mm.: teeth similarly colored, 10-20 

 mm. apart, 5-10 mm. long, straight or mostly variously 

 curved, the narrowly triangular cusps lenticularly 

 dilated into the straight pale-denticulate margin. In- 

 florescence about 5 m. high, the upper third or half ob- 

 long-paniculate with slender outcurved branches at the 

 ends of which the flowers are densely clustered: bracts 

 narrowly triangular, spreading: pedicels thick, 5-10 

 mm. long, densely invested by short bracts. Flowers 

 greenish white or pale yellow, 60-70 mm. long: ovary 

 25-30 mm. long, shorter than the perianth, oblong: tube 

 narrowly conical, 12-15 mm. deep: segments more yel- 

 low, 25 mm. long, nearly equaling the ovary: filaments 

 inserted nearly in the throat, 60-70 mm. long, maroon- 

 dotted like the style. Capsules oblong, 20x50 mm., 

 neither stipitate nor beaked: seeds 5x8 mm. Appar- 

 ently not bulbiferous. 



Specimens examined : Guatemala. Zunil, on the 

 Samala River {T release, 3, April, 1915 — the type in the 

 herbarium of the University of Illinois). 



Dedicated to Seiior Don G. Hurter, of Quezaltenango, 

 who has made exquisite photographs of this and other 

 plants characteristic of this part of Guatemala. 



