148 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
1459 FurcRAEA LONGAEVA Karwinski & Zuccarini. 
Furcraea longaeva Zuccarini, Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. 162: 665. 
pl. 48. 1833.—As with other species, the generic name is variously 
spelled Furcraea, Furcroea and Fourcroya; and the specific name 
has been transformed into longa by Smith, Teysmannia. 7: 231. 
1897. 
Arboreous, the unbranched trunk becoming 15 m. or 
more high. Leaves gray, outcurved, lanceolate, subacu- 
minate, concave, 8-15<200 cm., minutely rough-mar- 
gined. Inflorescence 5 m. high, broadly conical, short- 
stalked. Flowers 30-40 mm. long: ovary 20-25 mm. 
long, rather longer than the perianth. Capsules oblong, 
narrowed below: seeds 4X6 mm. Bulbils unknown. 
Said to have been found by Skinner in the high moun- 
tains of Guatemala many years ago. The type was from 
Mt. Tanga, Oaxaca, at an altitude of 9,000—10,000 ft., 
and Purpus has rediscovered it on the Cerro de Besetla, 
in the Sierra de Mixteca, on the boundary between the 
Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca. 
i4¢| ureraea quicheensis n. sp. 
Caulescent, the sometimes branched trunk little over 
1 m. high. Leaves very pale green, heavily pruinose,- 
lanceolate, acute, smooth, 10120 em., the thin subcar- 
tilaginous margin roughened at intervals of 1-2 mm. by 
minute straight yellowish denticles. Inflorescence 2.5-9 
m. high, scarcely 1 m. wide with much reduced lower 
branches, subsessile (?): pedicels 7-10 mm. long, once 
or twice surpassed by the subtending bracts. Flowers 
50-60 mm. long: ovary 25-30 mm. long, equaling the 
perianth: segments 6-8 25-30 mm., white-margined: 
filaments 10-12 mm. long. Capsules (immature) very 
narrowly oblong, 30 100-120 mm.: seeds and bulbils un- 
own. 
“Specimens examined: Guaremana. Between Quiché 
and Totonicapan (Cook, n. b. 421, May 17, 1906—the 
type, in the U. S. National Herbarium as sheet number 
692,146). 
