THE AGAVEAE OF GUATEMALA.* 
WILLIAM TRELEASE. 
The records of Agave and Furcraea as Guatemalan 
plants are neither extensive nor convineing. Hemsley 
in his summary of Central American plants attributes 
Agave Sartorii and A. Seemanniana’ to Guatemala, as 
he does Furcraea longaeva and F. Selloa2 
Agave Sartorii is a species characteristic of the for- 
ests of the coastwise flanks of Mt. Orizaba, Mexico, 
where, as Roezl* 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 4. Sartorii 
Cceurs in Guatemala lies in the statement of its de- 
Scriber* 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 
SA ea 
*Presented before The Academy of Science of St. Louis, June 7, 1913. 
* Biologia Centrali-Americana. 3: 349. 
<3 O63. 
*Roezl, Belgique Horticole. 1882: 98. 
* Koch, Wochenschr. Verein .Beférd. Gartenbau. 3: 37. 1860. 
*“Andernseits wurde sie durch den Reisenden Sartorius eben daher 
engl aus Guatemala an den Garten-director Noack in Darmstadt gesen- 
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