EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
XXXV. Fureraea gigantea (aloés malgache of Mauritius, Boname) above, ani 
F. gigantea Willemetiana (aloés créole of Mauritius, Boname) below. Flowers, 
natural size. 
XXXVI. Fureraea Cabuya, above, and ‘F. Cabuya integra, below. Upper surface 
of leaves, natural size: showing marginal characters and water-tissue lining. (Type 
material). 
Cecil Furcraea Cabuya integra (type material) above, and F. macrophyll 
(from Jamaica, von ScurENK) below. Capsule, seeds and bulbils, natural sch 
XXXVIII. Fureraea Humboldtiana. Above, a plant in the type locality, after a 
photograph from Sr. J. Papron Usrariz, greatly reduced. Below, marginal 
racters, natural size. (Type material). eo 
XXXIX. Fureraea Cahum. Marginal characters, flowers and young fruit, na 
size. (Type material), : 
». ; Fureraea cubensis. Marginal characters, flowers and very young es, ; 
natural size. (WRIGHT, 3250). : 
XLI. Fureraea tuberosa (from Tortola) above, and F. gigantea paler 
(FRANCESCcHI) below. Upper surface of leaves, natural size; showing the of the 
stripes underlaid by water-tissue (in addition to the median variegation 
lower figure), ‘section 
XLII. Fureraea gigantea medio-picta (FRANCESCHI). Above, _ peer” thick ) 
in the upper part of the leaf, including a band of water-tisssue one i sa 
beneath the upper epidermis, X 50. Below, a transverse section pear) 
of a similar band of water-tissue three cells thick beneath the upper pigece sire; 
XLII. Furcraea pubescens (Missouri Botanical Garden). Flowers, 2® 
showing staminal and stylar characters. a antegn 
LIV. Fureraea Bedinghausi (PRINGLE, 6669) above, and F. : Ch 
(type material) below. Seeds, & 2: one of the former series al ee : 
latter abraded to show the embryo. F macrophylla 
XLV. Fureraea Cabuya integra (type material) above, and with seed 
(from Jamaica) below, natural size. Seedlings, showing germination er 
remaining in the soil. . “Mr. Kram 
XLVI—XLVII. Fureraea gigantea medio-picta. After photographs by . pee 
biegel, Lal Bagh, Bangalore. surface 
XLVIII. Fureraea gigantea medio-picta (FRANCESCHI). Above, © hen the lel 
toward base of leaf, wich characteristic cracking of the ie aan natu : 
is forcibly flattened out. Below, cross sections, correspondingly 10 srgin and th? ; 
size: showing the superficial deeply-colored chlorenchyma near the Mate” ye 
less colored deeply-seated chlorophyll tissue overlaid by the etiolated 
Missouri Botanical Garden, 
September 1909. 
