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green prominences between which the margin is more or less concave. Inflorescence 3-6 m. 
high, oblong-paniculate above the middle with rather short spreading branches; pedicels stout, 
8-10 mm. long. Flowers yellow, about 50 mm. long; ovary 25 mm. long, equaling the perianth, 
oblong-fusiform; tube open, 5-7 mm. deep; segments bluntly triangular-oblong, about 7 by 20 
mm., shorter than the ovary; filaments inserted toward the middle of the tube, about 45 mm. 
long and twice as long as the segments. Capsules broadly oblong, 20-25 by 35-40 mm., stipitate 
and beaked; seeds 5 by 7mm. Freely bulbiferous. 
Greater Antilles. The common ‘“‘coratos’’ of southern Jamaica. 
Specimens examined: Jamaica. Papine Corner to Gordontown (Trelease, 9, 10, 1907). 
Hope Gardens (Harris, 9643, and fruit, 1907). Mouth of Hope River (Harris, 1906). Sta. 
Cruz Mts. (?Harris, 1907). 
Enough doubt may attach to Salm’s application of the name A. sobolifera to render its use 
for a West Indian species unwise. The original of its prototype, Hermann’s soboliferous 
American Aloe, with greenish-yellow flowers, is not said by him to have come from the islands, 
but his sketchy illustration, hardly picturing any known species, represents one of the Antillanae 
rather than anything else, and was reproduced by Lamarck in illustration of his own Agave 
viwipara which he ascribed to Jamaica and Santo Domingo, in which he is followed by Salm. 
If, as is here done, the characteristic golden- or orange-flowered species of the latter island be 
taken as A. antillarum, the dominant light-yellow-flowered plant of the former island remains 
as A. sobolifera. "Though the species is not known to have flowered in European gardens except 
for Hermann’s plant at Haarlem, it seems impossible to distinguish between young plants of 
what has long been grown under this name and Jamaican plants of like age, justifying a con- 
clusion that the garden species which Salm called sobolifera is really the same. 
Variegated forms of this or the following occur in gardens, of which one is known to have 
originated in the mountains of Jamaica.’ 
Agave Morrisii Baker. 
Plate 49. 
Agave Morrisii Baxer, Gard. Chron., 3d ser., vol. 1, pp. 543 and 549, fig. 105, 1887; Handbook Amaryllid., p. 184, 
1888.—Kew Bull., 1888, p. 91—?Fawcetr, Kew Bull., 1888, p. 162; Provisional List Jamaica, p. 42, 1893.— 
Harris, Bull. Bot. Dept. Jamaica, No. 14, p. 5, 1889; No. 15, p.5, 1889; No. 17, p. 10, 1890.—Morris, Kew Bull., 
1891, p.133; Add. Ser., vol.2, p. 276, 1901.—MicuHorre, Rev. Sci. Nat. Appl., vol. 41, No. 2, p. 262, 1894.—Gartenflora, 
vol. 36, p. 389, 1887.—NicHotson, Dict. Suppl., vol. 1, p. 28, 1892-3; Dict. Prat. Hort., vol. 1, p. 83, 1889.—Voss 
and Srzsert, Vilmorin’s Blumengirtnerei, p. 1037.—Dopcr, Rept. Fiber Invest. (U. 8. Dept. Agric.), No. 9, 
pp. 5 and 47, 1897.—Kew Hand List Tend. Monocot., p. 117, 1897.—Trelease, Wiesner Festschr., p. 336, 1908.— 
Urnpan, Symb. Antillanae, vol. 6, p. 125, 1909.—Drummonp, Kew Bull., 1910, pp. 346 and 348. 
Agave Morrissti MicHotTte, Rev. Cult. Colon, vol. 5, p. 310, 1899. 
Aspect of A. sobolifera. Leaves equally variable in form, rather dull; prickles often longer, 
sometimes 6-7 mm., and retrorse, narrowly triangular. Inflorescence rather broader. Flowers 
55-60 mm. long; ovary 25-30 mm. long, equaling the perianth, fusiform; tube open, about 8 mm. 
deep; segments involutely attenuate from a broad base, about 8 by 20-25 mm., shorter than the 
ovary; filaments inserted at about the middle of the tube, 40-50 mm. long and twice as long as 
the segments. Fruit and bulbils as in A. sobolifera. 
Greater Antilles. Southern Jamaica. 
Specimens examined: Jamaica. Blue Mountains (Morris, capsules). Port Henderson 
(Harris, 10156, 1908). Chestervale (Harris, Jan. 27, 1911). 
Neither this nor the preceding species is to be expected on the Caymans, from which one 
is reported. ; 

1 Trelease, Wiesner-Festschrift, 1908, pp. 336, 348, and 356, pl. 11. 
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