146 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
long-decurrent, somewhat intruded dorsally into the 
green tissue: teeth similarly colored, more or less pol- 
ished, 40-70 mm. apart, about 8 mm. long, recurved, the 
triangular often curved cusps abruptly dilated into low 
bases 15 mm. or more wide, between which the smooth 
margin is nearly straight. Inflorescence 5-6 m. high, 
the upper half ellipsoidally paniculate with slightly as- 
cending branches: bracts broadly triangular, densely 
imbricated so as to cover the scape completely, those 
of the panicle reduced and spreading: pedicels thick, 
0-10 mm. long. Flowers yellow, about 70 mm. long: 
ovary 30-35 mm. long, about equaling the perianth, ob- 
long: tube openly conical, 10-15 mm. deep: segments 
about 20 mm. long, shorter than the ovary: filaments 
inserted about the middle of the tube, some 40 mm. long. 
Capsules (immature) oblong, some 30X60 mm. Ap- 
parently not bulbiferous. 
Specimens examined: Guatemaua. About Quezalte- 
nango (T'release, 17—the type, in the herbarium of the 
University of Illinois; 28, both in April, 1915). 
Known to me only as planted in hedge-rows, sparingly 
in the vicinity of Mixco, between Antigua and the cap- 
ital—and in gardens in the latter, but abundantly in and 
about Quezaltenango, north of which it is said to occur 
wild in the mountains. Evidently of the group Atrovi- 
rentes, to which the pulque species of Mexico belong,— 
the type of which, A. atrovirens, like Furcraea longaeva, 
was described from Mt. Tanga in southern Oaxaca. 
Though pulque is now unknown in Guatemala, Fuen- 
tes y Guzman, ‘‘regido perpetual de la ciudad de Goathe- 
mala,’’ records that excellent pulque was produced at 
Atmolonga or Ciudad Vieja and at San Gaspar two cen- 
turies ago; but there remains no evidence of it that 
I have been able to discover unless it be in these scat- 
tered hedge-rows of Agave tecta. 
19 Fuentes y Guzman, Recordacion Florida. 1: 289. Madrid, 1882,— 
the manuscript written in 1690. 
