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COLLECTED DESCRIPTIONS OF AGAVE. 321 
VIII COLLECTED DESCRIPTIONS OF AGAVE. 
From Torrey’s Borany or THE Bounpary (IN Rerort oN THE UNrTED STaTEs AND Mexican BounpDARY SuRVEY, ETC., 
WASHINGTON, 1859). 
GAVE MACULATA, Engelm. : radice crassa cylindrica nigra ; fol licalibus lanceolato-linearib vus longe acu- [214] 
minatis subtus convexis supra profunde concavis recurvatis glaucis maculis atro- forracen notatis, margine albido 
cartilagineo-dentatis apice acutis nec spinescentibus ; scapo basi foliis paucis instructo ; floribus in spicam simplicem 
i her brevissime pedicellatis ; tubo corolle superne vix ampliato, laciniis Viisai-Sitonzs rotato-patentibus 
gle Pass on the Rio Grande. Root 6-8 lines in diameter, 4-6 inches long ; black, with long thick white [215] 
dian: Leaves 4-6 inches long, 5 an inch wide, deeply channelled, but not carinate, very glaucous, the dar 
greenish-brown blotches more distinct on the upper than the lower surface. Scape 14-2 feet high. Spike about 6 
inches long, with 12-15 flowers. Bracts subulate, longer than the pedicel, which is about one line long and articulated 
in the middle. The flowers, which are of musky not disagreeable odor, are about 20/” long; ovary 6’, tube 9’, 
the limb about 6”. Lacinix of the perianth at first green, afterwards on both sides (with the filaments) of a dirty 
purplish color. Evidently near A. revoluta, Klotzsch ; but that species has smooth-margined leaves; limb of the 
perianth equal to the tube ; stamens free in the tube, and longer than the limb. To Polyanthes Mexicana, Zuce. (which 
h in Enum. 5, p. 847, says is probably a species of Agave) it is still more nearly related, but that has leaves entire 
on the margin, with reddish dots ; flowers white, in pairs and sessile, the tube 18 lines long, segments only 3-4 lines 
long. Capsule (immature) ovate-oblong obtusely triangular. Nothing is said of the fragrance of the flowers. 
From Report on CLARENCE Kin@’s E OF THE ForRTIETH PARALLEL. VoL. V. Botany. By Sereno Watson. 1871, 
Aaave UTaHeEnsis, Engelm., n. sp. Leaves basal, stout, very fleshy, tapering from a broad base eh ter- [497] 
minating in a long channelled spine, herbaceous on the sinuate margins between the horny flat teeth ; 
— a dense spike of small yellowish flowers in fours or pairs ; the oblong obtuse erect lobes of the dertechee as long 
as the ovary, 3-4 times the length of the short campanulate tube ; Maines oni the middle of the tube, together with 
the as slightly exsert ; anthers of the length of the lobes ; capsule cylindric-ovate, acute. — About St. George, Utah 
(Dr. E. Palmer, J. E. J. acca, Leaves at base 14-2 inches wits 5 inches long, with stout broad white straight or rarely 
recurved spines on the margin ; terminal spine whitish, nearly 1 inch long; each leaf marked with the impressions of 
the teeth of those next to it ; scape 5-6 feet high ; flowers, ovary included, about 1 inch long, tube very shallow, scarcely 
more than 1 line long ; capsule and seeds among the smallest in the genus, the former 9-10 lines long, the latter 1j-2 
lines in longest diameter. Allied with A, eigen Zuce. (A. Poselgeri, Salm., A. Lecheguilla, Torr. ) which extends 
from Mexico into New Mexico and 
From THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
Acaver Parryt (Fig. 39). — We have had here [St. Louis] in May, Agave Parryi in bloom. The speci- [237] 
men was sent to Mr. Shaw’s garden from Arizona a year ago, and developed its flowering-stalk during winter. 
I enclose to you a photograph, and if you think it worth while to oa omree it in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, I would direct 
your attention to the very long exsert styles, which in the photograph are very indistin It was interesting to = 
most of the flower-bunches open at the same time, presenting with their (at a Reta deep yellow flowers quite 
gorgeous appearance. The stalk is about 8 feet high, 7 inches in circumference at base, the panicle is 2} feet high, ma 
1 foot in sue tye and consists of about sixteen branches. The leaves are well characterized by the semiterete or some- 
what triangular terminal spine, nearly flat, or slightly keeled above. They are about 10 inches long, and 3 inches 
wide. —[Aug. 23, 1879, n. s., vol. xii.] 
Aaave (Litraa) Victorr#-Reaina, T. Moore. Acaulescent; leaves 100 to 250 in a compact Saget [788] 
ovate-lanceolate, concave, 6-8 inches long, 2-24 inches wide above the slightly dilated on 4 to (towards the 
base) 1 inch thick, rigid, dull green, with white markings, and a horny, entire, at last detached border, which termin- 
ates in a rigid, often twisted, blackish spine, usually bearing a few teeth at its base, sds with a similar horny border 
on the dorsal keel, similarly terminating in one or two teeth at the base of the terminal spine (which thus appears two- 
or three-crested); scape, 8-10 feet high, 1 inch thick ; flowering-spike about one-third of its length, very dense, bearing 
in the axil of each bract three short-pedicelled flowers ; flowers [with the stamens] about 2 inches long ; ovary over 4 
inch ; tube broadly funnel-shaped, only 4 line long, perigonial lobes oblong-linear, 8 lines long; filaments inserted ms 
the bee of the lobes, more than twice as long as these, and rather exceeding the style, which bears three orbicular, at 
last spreading, stigmas ; capsule about 9 lines oh oblong, cuspidate ; seeds, 2 lines long. — Gard. Chron. n.s., iv. -p. 
485, with woodcut (fig. 137); Flore des Serres, x ag 169, with woodcut, Baker, in Gard. Chron., vii. p. 528. — A. Con- 
sideranti, Carriére, in : Boo, Hort. 1875, p. 429, fig. 68 
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