Trelease—The Agaveae of Guatemala. 145 
and somewhat whitened above, glaucous beneath, as- 
cending, sword-shaped, moderately concave, smooth, 8x 
75-100 em. or longer: spine garnet becoming chestnut, 
glossy, smooth, stoutly awl-shaped, slightly curved, 
terete, flat or shallow-grooved near the base, neither de- 
current nor intruded into the green tissue, 412-15 
mm.: teeth similarly colored, 10 or 15-25 or 30 mm. 
apart, 2-3 mm. long, upeurved, triangular, lenticularly 
dilated into the straight margin. Inflorescence panicu- 
late: pedicels 5-10 mm. long. Flowers greenish yellow, 
40-45 mm. long; ovary 20-25 mm. long, about equaling 
the perianth, oblong-fusiform: tube suburceolate, some 
8 mm. deep: segments 15-20 mm. long, shorter than the 
ovary, brighter colored than the tube: filaments inserted 
above the upper third of the tube, 35 mm. long, twice as 
long as the segments. Fruit unknown. Bulbiferous(?). 
Specimens examined: GuaremaLa. Hedges about Es- 
cuintla (Smith, 2085—the type in the U. S. National 
Herbarium; Trelease, 15, 1915). Mixeo (Trelease, 16, 
1915). Fiseal (Deam, 6240, June, 1909). Also seen in 
cultivation in the Plaza de Armas, Guatemala City, at 
Guarda Viejo, and on the Pacific slope as far down as 
Palo Gordo near Mazatenango. 
Ay y of the alliance of A. tequilana and A. 
Zapupe of Mexico, and of doubtful origin; but the Fis- 
cal specimens, from ledges in a cafion, should be wild. 
The group is not unknown in the Pacifie region to the 
South, 
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(449 Agave tecta n. sp. 
Acaulescent, suckering. Leaves grayish green, broadly 
oblanceolate or at first almost obovate, ascending, the 
gradually subacuminate apex sigmoidally upeurved, con- 
cave, valleculate above, smooth, becoming 50200 em.: 
spine purple-chestnut becoming gray, dull, smooth, con- 
ical or subacicular, often compressed, slightly flexuous, 
shallowy grooved below the middle, 5-7x<45-65 mm., 
