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award in London in 1875, when Crovcner®S exhibited an Aga 
(Foureroya) variegata, which its owner, Mr. Pracoox®®, listed in 
1878 as Fourcroya variegata. In 1891 such a plant. was listed by 
Cameron®? as J. gigantea variegata at Bangalore; in 1897 the same 
name appeared in the Kew Hand Lists3!; and in 1909 Francssom® 
used it for a plant that he was growing in California, The 
only illustration®? of it is a very characteristic picture ofa 
young plant exhibited at Ghent in 1898 by Sanper, and namel 
fF, Watsoniana, under which name it seems to have gone to 
Kew. No information has yet been obtained as to the sou 
of any of the plants referred to in these records, so that it 
18 impossible to know whether they are of common or different 
origin, except that Dr. Francescni raised his specimens from 
seeds, — according to his recollection, — received about 18! 
from the St. Petersburg garden, where, however, it does nil 
seem to be cultivated now, or to have left a record. In 1905 
Colonel Prain and Mr. Drummonp 34 made passsing referentt 
to the variegated plant at Bangalore, where the form is stil 
extant; and it has lately been widely distributed through the 
kindness of Mr. Kroumpircur, of the Lal Bagh Garden, to whom 
are also due the accompanying illustrations of what must be 
regarded as the handsomest known variegated Agavoid, a 
which in India appears not to seed, in this respect agreeing 
with what is known of the unvariegated form of F, gigantea | 
as grown in gardens. ‘ake 
