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oblong-paniculate above the middle; pedicels 5-10 mm. long. Flowers golden, 40-55 mm. 
long; ovary 20-30 mm. long, exceeding the perianth, oblong-fusiform; tube about 8 mm. 
deep; segments 4 by 15-18 mm., about half as long as the ovary; filaments inserted nearly in 
the throat, 35-40 mm. long, about twice as long as the segments. Capsules oblong, 20 by 
40 mm., shortly stipitate and beaked; seeds 5 by 6-7 mm. Not known to be bulbiferous. 
Greater Antilles. South-central Cuba. 
Specimens examined: Cusa. Cienfuegos, on islands in the lower bay (Grey, 1, 1908, the 
type; Britton, Earle, and Wilson, 4596, 1910; Britton, Cowell, and Earle, 10294, 1911). 
Polymorphic. The typical form, with dull yellowish gray-green lanceolate nearly straight- 
edged leaves armed with broadly triangular rather lenticular-based prickles as much as 4 mm. 
long and a stout flattened rather than grooved spine 4-5 mm. in diameter, and with yellow 
flowers 40-45 mm. long with filaments 30 mm. long, varies into a glossy green form with oblan- 
ceolate repand somewhat undulate leaves bearing prickles about 2 mm. long acuminately and 
inequilaterally narrowed from rounded bases and a slender shallowly grooved spine 3 mm. in 
diameter and with more golden flowers 45-50 mm. long with filaments 40 mm. long (var. 
cienfuegosana,—Grey, 1908; Britton, Earle, and Wilson, 4590, 1910, pl. 55), and an aberrant of 
this with the prickles as large as in the type but acuminately tapered from the hardened tops 
of inequilateral green prominences and a tumidly thickened shallow-grooved spine (var. 
obesispina,—Grey, 1908). 
Agave Shaferi n. sp. 
Plate 57. 
Leaves green, elongated lanceolate, rather gradually pointed, about 10 by 75 cm.; spine 
brown, smooth, dull, unguiculately recurved, conical-awl-shaped, openly V-grooved to the 
middle, 3 by 10 mm., not decurrent; prickles similarly colored, 10-20 mm. apart, about 1 mm. 
long, slightly curved in either direction, triangular from lenticular bases, the intervening margin 
slightly concave. Inflorescence paniculate, 6-7 m. high. Flowers bright yellow, 50 mm. long; 
ovary 25-30 mm. long, exceeding the perianth, fusiform; tube conical, 5-6 mm. deep; segments 
4 by 14 mm., about half as long as the ovary; filaments inserted nearly in the throat, scarcely 
25 mm. long and but one-fourth longer than the segments. Fruit unknown. Bulbils unknown. 
Greater Antilles. Eastern Cuba. 
Specimens examined: Cusa. Loma Menqura (Shafer, 3800, 1910, the type). 
Agave Legrelliana von Jacobi. 
Plates 58 to 62. 
Agave Legrelliana von Jacosi, Hamburg. Gart. u. Bl. Zeit., 1865, p. 567; 1866, p. 266; Versuch, pp. 198 and 253, 1864.— 
Baker, Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. 8, p. 620, 1877; Handbook Amaryllid., p. 188, 1888.—Hemstey, Biol. Centrali- 
Americana, vol. 3, p. 344, 1882-6:—Brirron, Journ. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 12, p. 89, 1911. 
A. americana LA Sacra, Hist. Fis. Cuba, vol. 11, p. 261, 1850.—GrisrBacu, Cat. Pl. Cubersium, p. 250, 1866.— 
Urpan, Symb. Antillanae, vol. 4, p. 152, 1903, as to Cuba. 
A. coccinea LACHAUME, Rev. Hort., 1876, p. 182. 
2A. Offoyanav. Jacosi, Hamburg. Gart. u. Bl. Zeit., 1864, p. 501; 1865, pp. 62 and 214; Versuch, pp. 17, 72, and 116, 
1864.—Kocu, Wochenschr. Ver. Beférd. Gartenbau, 1865, p. 112.—Dr Smet, Pr. Cour., No. 5, p. 16, 1869; No.7,p. 30, 
1874; No. 10, p. 35, 1877.— ELLEMEET, Belgique Hort., 1871, p. 118 —Baxer, Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. 8, p. 620, 
1877; Handbook Amaryllid., p. 187, 1888.—Ruicasou, Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort., vol. 3, p. 278, 1878.—Pzacock, List, 
p. 8, 1878 —Sreura, El Maguey, 4th ed., p. 109, 1901. 
Acaulescent, not cespitose. Leaves dark green, variously lanceolate, sub-acuminate, 
concave, sometimes plicate, 20-30 by 100-200 cm.; spine brown, smooth, dull, a little curved, 
eonical-awl-shaped, openly or flatly grooved below the middle or involute, 4-5 by 15-20 mm., 
scarcely decurrent; prickles 10-15 or 20 mm. apart, 2-6 mm. long, usually downcurved below, 
narrowly triangular, acuminately tapered, or from abrupt green prominences the tops of which 
harden lunately, the intervening margin often concave. Inflorescence 6-8 m. high, amply 
ovoid-paniculate throughout, with ascending-recurved branches; pedicels 20-30 mm. long. 
