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and a note upon them was given in the Kew Bulletin for January 1892 
p. 4, which is reproduced below 
s ‘Agave rigida, ar This is is the most valuable and most variable 
of all the Agaves. It is common and quite at home in the Riviera 
gardens and flowering aly. I had an opportunity of studying its 
character and range of oaoa far better than I had ever done before, 
and of seeing several forms with which I was not previously acquainted. 
he commonest forms on the Riviera ue the characteristic small 
distant nearly black teeth, and agree very well with what have been 
described and figured a s A. Irtli and a Shkoda (Bot. Mag. t. 5893). 
In Dr. Hern’s garden, id just on the French side of the boundary 
gorge at St. Louis, I saw a form with leaves much thicker than usual 
a wn thick at the base) and formin 1g a less ao rosette. The plants 
d A. Cantula and A. mea in the Riviera gardens are forms of 
a. ae Mr. Hanbury h st flowered a spineless form that e 
very well with the vry h na of Yucatan and Florida. I a 
quite satisfied now that A. Houlletii, oie is nothing more a an 
undeveloped sisalana, and the same holds good with a plant called A. 
lævis. One panicle of this species at La Mortola was producing copious 
bulbils. The peduncle, including the rhomboid panicle, does not reach 
a greater height than 12-15 feet. The bract leaves, like those of Agave 
amer ee are small and distant as compared with those of A, 
ne 
La 
var. tithe A fine photograph of this was recently sent to Kew by 
r. Todaro which is now in the Kew Herbarium. Agave Candela- 
brum, Todaro, may on further acquaintance prove to be Agave rigida 
var. elongat 
WEST AFRICA. 
In April 1890, there were received, through the Colonial Office, 
ocal 
perseparilla.” The leaves were evidently those of one of the numerous 
rms of Agave rigida. They had smal, e black teeth, and the 
lariana spine s0 aa oo of the e leaves were thin 
and rigid in texture and of glaucous sesi co ajea It is evident from 
e has been 
associated with any species of Agave. It is possible that introduced 
plants of Agave rigida may be found in other West African Colonies if 
they were specially looked for. Their presence so far is interesting as 
snowing how widely diffused many new world plants have become even 
the old 
EAST INDIES. 
The species of Agave aerie yielding commercial fibre in the East 
Indies have proved to be either i. americana a A. vivipara. Investi- 
gations undertaken by Kow during the last three years have shown 
k x : 
almost earen at the present time, and is quoted (January 15th, 1802) 
at de. to 11s, per ton. The stock at Liverpool is given at 5,136 bal 
