JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



In the May number of the Journal a reference was made to 

 the plant Agave Victonae-Rcginae, which at that time was send- 

 ing up its flowering stalk. While the growth of this stalk was 

 rapid, the maturing of the flowers has been a slow process, and 

 it was not until June 19, about eight weeks after the stem was 

 first seen -emerging from the leaves, that the first flowers opened. 

 The accompanying illustration, made from a photograph, will give 

 some idea of its appearance, and indicate how the stem is out of 

 all proportion to the body of the plant. 



The numerous leaves, arranged in an almost globose body, 



are a rich gray-green, thick and firm in structure and somewhat 

 triangular in cross-section, and oblong in shape, the outer ones 

 obtuse, only the inner ones acute; each is terminated by a stiff 

 brown spine, which is usually curved or twisted and half an 

 inch long or less, thus furnishing an armor which thoroughly 

 protects the plant. The upper surface of the leaves is somewhat 

 concave, the lower more or less angled, and both marked with a 



often separate as thread-like appendages. The body of the plant 

 is fifteen inches high. The flowering stem extends above this 

 for ten feet, making a total height of eleven feet three inches, the 

 upper four feet and a half of which was covered with flowers. The 

 stem, which has a diameter of about one and three quarters 

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