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prominences, the intervening margin often concave. Inflorescence paniculate, as much as 9 m. 
high; pedicels slender, about 10 mm. long. Flowers yellow, 30-35 mm. long; ovary 15-20 or 
25 mm. long, about equaling the perianth, fusiform; tube open, 3-4 mm. deep; segments 3 by 12- 
15 mm., shorter than the ovary; filaments inserted nearly in the throat, 25 mm. long and nearly 
twice as long as the segments. Capsules oblong or rather pyriform, 15 by 25-35 mm., strongly 
stipitate though but slightly beaked; seeds 3-4 by 5-6 mm. 
Greater Antilles. Central Cuba. 
Specimens examined: Cusa. Hanabanilla Falls, Trinidad Mountains (Britton, Earle, and 
Wilson, 4776, 1910, the type; Britton and Cowell, 10182, 1911). Arroyo Grande, Trinidad 
Mountains (Britton and Wilson, 5444, 1910). La Vigia Hill, Trinidad (Britton and Wilson, 
6633, 1910). Santa Clara (Britton, Britton, and Wilson, 6183, 1910, a form, perhaps separable, 
with shorter pedicels and oblong-pyriform capsules, which may be known as var. brachypus). 
Bahia Honda (? Wright, in Herb. Grisebach as ‘A. sobolifera’’). 
Agave tubulata n. sp. 
Plates 99 and 100. 
Agave sp. Brirron, Journ. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 11, p. 234, 1910. 
A. Wildringii Brrrron, Journ. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 12, p. 92, 1911. 
Leaves at length rather glossy green, broadly lanceolate, sometimes plicate, gradually 
acute or subacuminate, 15-20 by 60-75 or even 90 cm.; spine brown, smooth, dull, acicularly 
conical, somewhat upcurved or flexuous, round-grooved or involute below the middle, 2 by 15 
mm., decurrent; prickles 15-20 mm. apart, 1-3 mm. long, prevailingly upcurved above and 
recurved below, slender-cusped, lunate rather than lenticular at base, on green prominences or 
the intervening margin repand. Inflorescence 2-5 m. high; pedicels about 10 mm. long. 
Flowers yellow, 30-35 mm. long; ovary 15 mm. long, scarcely equaling the perianth; tube 
narrowly funnelform, 6-8 mm. deep; segments 12 mm. long; filaments inserted nearly in the 
throat, about 25 mm. long, fully twice as long as the segments. Capsules broadly oblong, 
12-15 by 20-35 mm., shortly but distinctly stipitate and beaked; seeds 3-4 by 5-6 mm. 
Greater Antilles. Western Cuba, in the Province of Pinar del Rio. 
Specimens examined: Cusa. Guane (Britton, Britton, and Cowell, 9746, 1911, the type). 
Bafios San Vicente (Britton, Britton, and Gager, 7388, 1910). Buenaventura to San Juan de 
Guacamalla (Wilson, 9333, 1910). Sierra de Anafe (Britton, Cowell, and Leon, 9595, 1911). 
INAGUENSES. 
Plates 101 to 105. 
Small cespitose acaulescent plants with rather few erect firm and rigid dull smooth gray or 
very glaucous leaves with long narrowly grooved somewhat papery-decurrent spine and small 
close-set prickles; rather small lax panicles; rather small yellow flowers congested at the ends 
of the branches; small scarcely stipitate capsules, and small seeds. Not known to be 
bulbiferous. 
Confined to the southern Bahamas. 
Leaves gradually tapering, deeply concave; spine rather slender; prickles deltoid or heavy-based.......... A, Nashii. 
Leaves rather quickly acute, nearly flat; spine short and stout; prickles narrow..........-...-.-------- A. inaguensis. 
Agave Nashii n. sp. 
Plates 101 to 103. 
Agave sp. Nasu, Journ. New York Bot. Gard., vol. 6, pp. 11 and 12, fig. 4, 1905. 
Acaulescent, cespitose. Leaves gray-green, sometimes purple-tinged, gray-green, somewhat 
glaucous and transversely banded, attenuate-oblong, concave, 4-5 by 30-50 em.; spine purplish 
brown, smooth, somewhat polished and recurved or upcurved toward the end, conical tapered, 
narrowly slit-grooved to beyond the middle, 3 by 15 mm., decurrent; prickles usually 3-5 mm. 
apart, scarcely 2 mm. long, straight or somewhat curved, acuminately triangular, sometimes 
