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COLLECTED DESCRIPTIONS OF AGAVE. 323 
In coarse gravelly soil on steep hills near Monterey, Northern Mexico, flowering in autumn, according to Dr. E. 
Palmer, who gathered fruiting specimens in February last. The largest plant which he sent to St. Louis has a diam- 
eter of 2 feet, a height of 14 inches, and bears about 250 leaves, 7 to 8 inches long and 2 to 24 wide. The leaves of the 
older plants bear white streaks, which seem to correspond with and are probably produced by the pressure of the adjoin- 
ing leaves, but other wavy, transverse marks on the leaves of younger plants can scarcely thus be accounted for. 
The inflorescence is that of a very dense-flowering Littza, the flowers with an extremely short perigonial tube. The 
great morphological interest consists in the regularly (at least in my specimen) tri-flowered bunches, the third flower 
occupying the centre between the two normal twin flowers of this section ; this is probably the primary flower, which 
in most or in all other Littaas is entirely absent, or is in a few species only indicated and represented by a bristle. 
Where I have seen more than two flowers in a Littza (e.g. often in A. Utahensis), the third and fourth flowers are 
axillary to the bracts of the first and second one. — [June 19, 1880, n.s., vol. xiii.} 
AGAvE Victor1£ Recina&.— This species flowered in the Botanic Garden of Cambridge (U. 8S.) in the [841] 
latter part of August and beginning of September of this year (see fig. 149, p. 845)4,_ The specimen was 0 
tained by Dr. E. Palmer, near Monterey, Mexico, in February, 1880, It forms a regular compact cone of over 200 
conniving leaves; the stalk, about 2 inches thick at base, 
was over 10 feet high, and about 6 feet of it consisted of 
the very dense flowering spike, while the lower part of the 
scape was covered with numerous bracts, linear-subulate, 
from a broad base, the lower ones 4—5 inches long, and 
spiny-pointed, each one bearing in its axil 3 small knobs, 
evidently abortive flower-buds. The flowers, with all 
their parts pale greenish-yellow, were densely crowded, 
and very regularly and constantly arranged in threes, just 
capsules were in the native specimen described 
in this journal, June 19, 1880 (p. 788). The flowers are 
1} inch and not 2 inches long, as was misstated in the 
former article, the ovary about $ inch, the perigone ? inch, 
its tube being only 14 line long; stamens inserted about 
the middle of the tube, and exserted beyond the perigone 
about 1} inch; anthers $ inch long; tube filled wi 
nectar to the brim. The stigmatic lobes in most cases 
never opened, and thus no fertilization took place, except 
in some flowers near the top of the spike. Young plan 
raised from seeds in the spring of 1880 begin only now, — Fyg, 148. — FLowers or AGAVE REGINZ : GREENISH-YELLOW. 
after more than two years, to show the character of the 
species, Until now the leaves were unspotted, their edge slightly denticulate, and the terminal spine simple. The cut 
(fig. 149, p. 845),* is from a photograph sent by Dr. A. Gray. — (Dec. 30, 1882, n.s., vol. xviii.] 
AGaveE BracTEosa, S. Watson in Herb. (See figs. 138, 139.) Acaulescent, with 10-15 lanceolate or broadly [776] 
linear, fleshy, grayish-green, irregularly spreading leaves recurved at the tip, 18-22 inches long, tapering from a 
width of 1} inch near the base gradually to an herbaceous point without becoming wider in the middle; 3-4 inch thick 
ong slightly concave ; margin serrulate with minute rather obtuse cartilaginous teeth about #,—,, line in length. 
stalk was 37 inches high, 17 inches of which formed a dense spike of flowers ; the whole stock closely 
beset with spreading or recurved bracts 5-6 inches long, subulate-filiform from an oval base. Flowers in pairs, their 
short pedicels with conspicuous membranaceous bracts, about half as long as the ovary. Flowers (fig. 138) only about 
1 inch long; ovary as well as _— only 3 inch long each; the latter divided nearly to the base, tube being only 3 
line deep ; lobes oblong-oval, spreading ; stamens inserted in the throat, four times as long as the lobes; izle at last 
longer than stamens ; anthers 4 lines in length when fresh. 
The minutely serrulate, narrow, but yet fleshy leaves, the numerous flexnous or recurved bracts of the stalks, the 
very conspicuous membranaceous bracts on the pedicels, and the small size of the flowers with the very long filaments, 
contribute to make this one of the most curious species of the genus. It was found in the same locality, near Monterey, 
where Agave Victoria Regine was collected. Dr. Palmer discovered this Agave, which flowered last year in the Cam- 
bridge (U.S.) Botanical Garden, where Mr. 8. Watson named and figured it. It seems to be allied to A. pruinosa, 
Lem, (see Baker, Monog., in Gard. Chron., Dec, 15, 1877), at least in the consistency and the a eee of the leaves, 
while in other respects it may stand nearer to A. yuccefolia. —[Dec. 16, 1882, n. s,, vol. xviii-] 
* This figure, a full-page wood-cut, showing merely the dense Littea habit, is omitted here. — Eps. 
