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minute brown needles. Inflorescence, flowers and fruit 

 unknown. 



Specimens examined: Guatemala. Hillside at El 

 Rancho (T release, 6, April, 1915, — the type in the herba- 

 rium of the University of Illinois). 



Agave Kellermaniana n. sp. 



Acaulescent. Leaves very glaucous, elongated-lance- 

 olate, slightly acuminate, rather concave, somewhat mi- 

 nutely granular on the back above, 8-10x100 cm. or 

 more: spine purplish chestnut, somewhat glossy, gran- 

 ular below, slenderly conical, sometimes slightly flexu- 

 ous, round-grooved from above the middle with rather 

 blunt edges, decurrent for once or twice its length, some- 

 what dorsally intruded into the green tissue, 4—5x30-35 

 mm. : teeth 10-25 mm. apart, 3-5 mm. long, upcurved, 

 the rather slender glossy purple-chestnut cusps with ab- 

 rupt blue bases either occupying the larger part of fleshy 

 prominences or lenticular in the straight margin. In- 

 florescence, flowers and fruit unknown. 



Specimens examined: Guatemala. Sides of ravines, 

 at 3700 ft., Fiscal {Beam, 6239, June, 1909— the type, at 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden). Without data {Norton, 

 1912). 



Agave samalana n. sp. 



Acaulescent, scarcely suckering. Leaves glaucous, es- 

 pecially beneath, rather numerous, oblanceolate, sub- 

 acuminate, somewhat concave, minutely roughened be- 

 neath and on the margin, finally some 15x60 cm.: spine 

 reddish becoming darker, somewhat glossy, typically 

 granular below, slenderly conical or acicular, nearly 

 straight, round-grooved from above the middle with 

 acute edges, decurrent for something like its own length, 

 more or less intruded into the green tissue dorsally, 3-4 

 X 35-55 mm.: teeth chestnut, dull, 5-10 or 20 mm. apart, 

 1-3 or 5 mm. long, straight or gently upcurved, trian- 



