Trelease—The Agaveae of Guatemala. 141 
8-1075 em.: spine dull brown, quickly graying, gran- 
ular below, stoutly triquetrous-conical, nearly straight, 
involutely grooved from above the middle with acute 
edges, decurrent for once or twice its length, somewhat 
dorsally intruded into the green tissue, 3-6>50-60 
mm.: teeth drab, rather dull, 20-50 mm. apart, 5-8 mm. 
long, nearly straight, heavily triangular, dilated lenti- 
cularly into more or less elevated prominences of the 
otherwise nearly straight margin. Inflorescence about 
5 m. high, the upper half oblong-paniculate: bracts 
broadly triangular, appressed: pedicels about 10 mm. 
long. Flowers yellow, 40-45 mm. long: ovary 25-30 mm. 
long, rather exceeding the perianth, fusiform: tube 
openly conical, 10 mm. deep: segments 512-15 mm., 
half as long as the ovary: filaments inserted about the 
middle of the tube, 35 mm. long. Capsules oblong, stip- 
itate, 2040-45 mm.: seeds 5X6 mm. Apparently not 
bulbiferous. 
Specimens examined: Guaremaua. Cruz (T release, 5, 
March, 1915—the type in the herbarium of the Univer- 
sity of Illinois). 
(v¢@ Agave sicaefolia n. sp. 
Acaulescent, very cespitose. Leaves gray-green rather 
than glaucous, forming a dense cluster, lanceolate, acute 
or slightly acuminate, nearly flat to deeply concave, 
slightly granular on the back above, 7-860-75 em.: 
spine purplish chestnut fading to gray-brown, rather 
glossy, granular below, triquetrous, nearly straight, flat- 
tened or very openly grooved, often with median keel, 
from near the very sharp end, with acute short-decur- 
rent margin, somewhat intruded into the green tissue 
both dorsally and ventrally, 430-40 mm.: teeth sim- 
ilarly colored, somewhat glossy, 15-35 mm. apart, 3-9 
mm. long, mostly upeurved, the rather slender some- 
times hooked cusps lenticularly dilated, the rather con- 
cave intervening margin sometimes with one or more 
