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through the lower lands, with shorter, less fleshy-based, abun- 
dantly toothed leaves, — more used than the other for its 
fiber. To this form, which does not differ from the first in 
inflorescence or flowers, Rozmer’s name /. gigantea Willemetiana 
appears to be applicable, though it seems not evidently different 
from the garden plant which Saum Dyck ® called Agave Commalini 
in 1834 and which Kunrn? transferred to Furcraea, as F. Com- 
melyni, in 1850. 
Prior to the use of binomial nomenclature, unmistakable 
accounts of plants belonging to the genus Furcraea had been 
included in the publications of travelers or botanists, whose 
attention was drawn to them because of the use made of their 
leat-fiber for cordage, a circumstance embodied in both the 
generic and specific names employed by WiLLEmer. 
With little question the Haitian name ,henequen” was applied 
by Ovizpo§, in 1535, to the narrow-leaved Furcraea of Haiti, 
which is very similar to, if not identical with F. cubensis of 
the adjoining island Cuba; though this name or its equivalents 
pnequen” or ,henechen”, as written by Dr Larr®, may have been 
used for the great-leaved Ananas macrodontes on the isthmus 
of Panama. When Oviepo visited the West Indies, the name 
»cabuya” was applied to a green-leaved plant resembling that 
called ,henequen” but with wider leaves, — apparently Murerae 
tuberosa, which is now called ,cabuya” in Santo Domingo. The 
same name in Panama seems to have applied then, as it does 20% 
to an even larger plant*) (PI. XXXVI, upper figure) — closelY 
tia 
*) Fureraea Cabuya n. sp. Subacaulescent. Leaves green, very oven a 
glaucous, the slightly glossy upper surface rather closely pale-lined = margins, 
or at length nearly chestnut cusps, 30-50 mm. apart, 5-7 mm. 40 mm. 
mostly gently upeurved, decurrent on deltoid herbaceous bases nearly and 
wide, between which the margin is nearly straight. Inflorescence, flowers led, 
fruit not definitely known. Seeds very large (10 x 17 mm.), eee imens 
winged. — The prickly ,cabuya con espina” of Costa er 
d: near San Ramon (Worruen,1909 — the type). Relate 
hich it differs in its larger size and very much larger ¢4P: < 
broadly Rica. SP 
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