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height of 20 feet. Of the species known for the islands named, it can hardly be identified as 
closely with any other as with that to which the name, following the botanists mentioned, is 
here applied. As so used it designates what appears to have been the Haitian ‘‘maguei” of 
Oviedo, who also applied that name to some similar Cuban form and to A. Cocuz of the South 
American mainland. 
Intermixed with the Parry, Wright, and Brummel specimens of A. antillarum are slender 
panicle branches with long thin pedicels congested at their ends and dissociated long deep-tubed 
flowers and broad capsules, with rather larger and glossier seeds; it is not impossible that the 
heavier-toothed leaves which form part of their collection in the National Herbarium belong 
with these. Though this latter point must remain in doubt, the species represented by this. 
material may be provisionally differentiated on its flowers and seeds under the name A. inter- 
mizta.! In the herbarium of the South Kensington Museum an early specimen consisting of 
a very young plant with two small leaves and a single flower with already greatly swollen 
ovary (pl. 65) is preserved as from the Chelsea Garden, under the name ‘‘Aloe yuccae foliis,” 
etc., of Sloane. The flower, which can hardly go elsewhere, differs from those of Agave long- 
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vpes and agrees with those of A. intermixta in having filaments scarcely 30 mm. long, and not 
greatly surpassing the segments. 
Agave sobolifera Salm. 
Plates B and 4448. 
Agave sobolifera Saum, Hort. Dyck., vol. 8, p. 307, 1834.—Don, Sweet’s Hort. Britannicus, 3d ed., p. 705, 1839.— 
SreuDEL, Nomencl. Bot., 2d ed., p. 37, 1841.—RormeEr, Ensatae, p. 292, 1847.—Kunru, Enum. PI1., vol. 5, p. 
822, 1850.—v. Jacozni, Hamburg. Gart. u. Bl. Zeit., 1864, pp. 460, 461, and 501; 1865, p. 218; Versuch, pp. 
6, 7, 17, and 121, 1865.—Baxerr, Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. 8, p. 780, 1877; Handbook Amaryllid., p. 194, 
1888.—Ricasou, Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort., vol. 3, p. 307, 1878 —Trrraccitano, Primo Contrib., p. 47, 1885.— 
Srcura, El Maguey, 4th ed., p. 127, 1901.—The last five as to vegetative characters only—DrumMmonp and 
Prain, Bengal Bull., 1905, No. 8, pp. 49 and 51; Agric. Ledger, 1906, pp. 125 and 127. 
Aloe americana sobolifera. Hirmann, Hort. Acad. Lugd.-Bat. Cat., p. 16, fig., 1687.—Ray, Hist. Pl., vol. 2, p. 1906, 
1688.—BoERHAAVE, Index Alter Pl., vol. 2, p. 129, 1727.—Trrw, Commerc. Norimbergae, 1744, p. 367. 
Aloe secunda. St Loans, Cat. Pl. Jamaica, p. 118, 1696; Voyage to Madera and Jamaica, vol. 1, p. 246, 1707. 
Agavesp. Browne, Civ. and Nat. Hist. Jamaica, p. 199, 1756.—?Harr, Rept. Trinidad Gard., 1890 (see Gard. 
Mag., vol. 35, p. 160, 1892). 
Agave vivipara Lamarck, Encycl. Méthod., vol. 1, p. 58, 1783; Tabl. Encycl., vol. 2, p. 378, 1793; Encycl. Planches, 
vol. 1, pl. 235, 1823 —Baruam, Hort. Americanus, p. 49, Index, p. 4, 1794.—Tirrorp, Sketches Hort. Bot. 
Americanus, p. 57, pl. 1, fig. 15, pl. 7, fig. 4, 1812.—Porret, Encycl. Suppl., vol. 1, p. 240, 1810.—Smrru in Rees, 
Cycl., vol. 1, 1819.—Baxnrr, Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. 8, p. 780, 1877, as to fig. 150.—Ricasout, Bull. Soc. Tos. 
Ort., vol. 3, p. 306, 1878, as to fig. 36. 
Agave americana Lamarcr, Encycl. Méthod., vol. 1, p. 52, 1783.—Swarrz, Obs. Bot., p. 128, 1791_—Lunan, Hort. 
Jamaicensis, vol. 1, p. 235, 1814.—GrisEBaAcu, Fl. Br. West Indian Islands, p. 582, 1864.—UrBan, Symb. Antillanae, 
vol.4, p. 152, 1903.—All as to Jamaica. 
Agave Morrisiti Kent, The Blaschka Glass Models, p. 27, 1908. 
?“Coratoo” or ‘“‘curaca,’’ Ropryson, Columbian Mag. (Kingston), 1798 (see Bull. Bot. Dept. Jamaica, new ser., No. 6, 
p. 71, 1899).—See also Lone, Hist. Jamaica (see Roye, Fibrous Plants, p. 42, 1855). 
Acaulescent, not cespitose. Leaves rather light green, somewhat glossy, variously lanceo- 
ate, gradually acute or somewhat acuminate, often deeply and plicately or undulately concave, 
15-25 by about 125 cm.; spine reddish brown, smooth, somewhat glossy, nearly straight, 
conical, slightly flattened, grooved or mostly involutely channeled below the middle when 
mature, 3-4 by 15-25 mm., not decurrent; prickles mostly about 10 mm. apart, 2-4 mm. long, 
straight or variously curved, rather acuminately triangular, often hardened onto the tops of 
1 Agave intermixta n. sp. 
Plate 64. 
Pedicels slender, 15-25 mm. long, congested at the ends of the panicle branches. Flowers yellow (?) about 65 mm. long; ovary 35 mm. long, 
elongated fusiform, exceeding the perianth; tube narrowly conical, about 8mm. deep; segments 4 by 20 mm., more than half as long as the ovary; 
filaments inserted nearly in the throat, 30 mm. long, one-half longer than the segments. Capsules rather broadly pyriform-oblong, 20 by 40 
mm., stipitate and beaked; seeds 5 by 8 mm. 
Haiti, Greater Antilles. SANto Dominao (Parry, 1871, in herb. Engelmann, the type); v. Tiirckheim, 3073?; ?[Bonpland?], 1820, Ex Museo 
Paris. 
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