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The flowers are densely crowded on short stout pedicels 

 clusters of three (Fig. 22). The cylindric-oblong, pale gree 

 ovary is about one half an inch long. The length of the perian 

 is about three quarters of an inch. Its segments are oblong, at 



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minutely pubescent above on the outside, and furnished with a 

 tuft of long hairs at the apex on the inside, pale green, margined 

 with white, the green portion of the inner segments being sharply 

 denned. The stamens are much exserted, the greenish filaments 

 about one and three quarters inches long, the yellow anthers ob- 

 long-linear, five eighths of an inch long, rounded at both ends ; 

 the style pale green, one and a quarter to one and three quarters 

 of an inch long. 



This agave is apparently a shy bloomer, at least in cultivation 

 under glass. The first, and perhaps the only other flowering of 



