AGAVE IN THE WEST INDIES—TRELEASE, dl 
Spine rather stout or short, acute or awl-pointed—Continued. 
Leaves green. 
Capsules oblong. 
Pedicels short (5-10 mm.). Flowers rather small.....................200-00eececceeceeccecee A. Shafert. 
Pedicels usually long (15-20 or even 40 mm.). 
IOWeETS[OTEN Ee, nVeryflaroees \ Sane oc crass ciavate cha Srote avcet oy Se clos Sida aqeimccte cise cua Rane Spd 1. Legrelliana. 
Flowers yellow. 
Flowers rather large (about 70 mm.). 
Filaments more than twice as long as seements.............................-..- A. longipes. 
Filaments scarcely twice as long as segments. 
Heitiany an oliacenimiknowaesses- soe siete Say ee SE ONE Saag 1. intermizxta. 
Cuban. Leaves with few and small or no prickles......................-. A. anomala. 
Flowers moderate (about 55 mm.). 
Capsuleselongated’ “Panicle (amples --25-2 = 222-3 e cee ione Jed ose. ae A. Underwoodii. 
Capsilesntoute Panicle stmete asc 2-6 - ee acase 5 ree oe ee was usec dees A. missionum. 
Capsilesisubelobose:. bedicelsirather shorts. s-ce.2-2 2-425 -5e 2e eee eee eccreaees ee eeee A. portoricensis. 
Agave antillarum Descourtilz. 
Plates 41 to 43. 
Agave antillarum Descourtimz, Fl. Pitt. et Méd. des Antilles, vol. 4, p. 239, pl. 284, 1827—Kocu, Wochenschr. Ver. 
Beford. Gartenbau, 1860, p. 27; Fl. des Jard., 1861, p. 117; Belgique Hort., 1862, p. 210, the described variegation 
resting on a misunderstanding of the coloring of Descourtilz’s plate——Satm, Wochenschr. Ver. Beférd. Gartenbau, 
1861, pp. 178 and 181; Fl. des Jard., 1862, pp. 117 and 123, with similar misinterpretation.—GrisrBacn, FI. 
British West Indian Islands, p. 582, 1864; Cat. Pl. Cubensium, p. 250, 1866.—Parry, Rept. Santo Domingo 
(Ex. Doc. 9, 42 Congr., 1 sess., Senate), p. 86, 1871 ENGELMANN, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, vol. 3, pp. 297 and 
313, 1875; Bot. Works, pp. 303 and 310, 1887.—Coztmetro, Prim. Notic. Veg. America, p. 35, 1892.—PrrersEn, 
Bot. Tidsskr., vol. 18, p. 266, pl. 19, 1893.—TrELEAsE, Wiesner Festschr., p. 333, 1908. 
A. vivipara Lamarck, Encycl. Méthod., vol. 1, p. 53, 1783; Tabl. Encycl., vol. 2, p. 378, 1793.—Smrru in Rees, 
Cycl., vol. 1, 1819.—Both as to Santo Domingo.—Moscoso, Famil. Vej. Santo Domingo, p. 39, 1891. 
A. sobolifera Satm, Hort. Dyck., p. 307, 1834.—v. Jacos1, Hamburg. Gart. u. Bl. Zeit., 1865, p. 218; Versuch., 
p. 121—Baxer, Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. 8, p. 780, 1877; Handbook Amaryllid., p. 194, 1888.—Trrracciano, 
Primo Contrib, p. 47, 1885.—All as to Santo Domingo only.—HarsHBERGER, Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci., 
1901, p. 559. 
A.americana ScHOMBURGK, Verhandl. Ver. Beférd. Gartenbau., vol. 11, p. 231, 1835.—Rirrer, Naturhist. Reise... . 
Haiti, p. 192, 1836.—Coimerro, Prim. Notic. Veg. America, pp. 21 and 35, 1892.—Ursan, Symb. Antillanae, vol. 4, 
p. 152, 1903, as to Haiti or Santo Domingo only. 
A. dominicensis Riisn, Bot. Tidsskr., vol. 18, p. 266, 1893. Name only. 
2? Agave sp. TAytor, Journ. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 11, p. 13, 1910. 
Acaulescent, not cespitose. Leaves bright green, lanceolate gradually acute, somewhat 
concave, about 8 by 100 cm.; spine brown, smooth, dull, nearly straight, conical, involutely 
grooved near the base, 3 by 15-20 mm., decurrent; prickles 10-25 mm. apart, 2-3 mm. long, 
straight or upcurved, narrowly triangular from lenticular bases or acuminately deltoid, the 
intervening margin typically nearly straight. Inflorescence (about 5 m. high?) narrowly 
oblong-paniculate in the upper half or third, with ascending branches at the ends of which the 
flowers are densely clustered; pedicels 5-10 mm. long. Flowers deep orange, 40-50 mm. long; 
ovary 25-30 mm. long, exceeding the perianth, oblong-fusiform ; tube open, scarcely 5 mm. deep; 
segments 4 by 15 mm., about half as long as the ovary; filaments inserted in the throat, 25-30 
mm. long, about twice as long as the segments. Capsules narrowly oblong, 15 by 40-45 mm., 
stipitate and beaked; seeds 4 by 6 mm. Not known to be bulbiferous. 
Greater Antilles. Haiti, on southern exposures. 
Specimens examined: Santo Domineo (Parry, Wright, and Brummel, 1871; Petersen). 
Hartt (Nash, 826, 1903, cultivated from near Marmelade at the New York Botanical Garden 
and in Fairmount Park). 
The earliest-named species of its group. Were it not that Engelmann and Petersen have 
affixed this name with definiteness to the short-flowered Agave of the southern part of Haiti, 
it could hardly find place in current literature. As used by Descourtilz, it was intended to 
designate the ‘‘karatas ou caragn{uJata-mala”’ of both Haiti and Cuba, but it is neither described 
nor figured with sufficient accuracy to show more than that it stood for a Euagave with fragrant 
orange flowers, clustered at the ends of ascending branches in an inflorescence said to reach a 
