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Caribbees. The ‘‘Maypole,” ‘‘coratoe,”’ or ‘‘she silk grass”’ of Barbados; spontaneous on 
the leeward side, and everywhere planted in hedge-rows from which it escapes. 
Specimens examined: Barsapos (Wright in Herb. Martu; Trelease, 17-19, 1907; Todd, 
Stockdale, and Bovell, 1907). 
Pressed flowers of ‘‘ Aloe americana muricata,’”’ marked as No. 5, but without other indi- 
cation of their source, occur in the herbarium of the South Kensington branch of the British 
Museum (pl. 65). Though with a more narrowly conical tube and longer anthers than the fresh 
flowers that I have seen possess, they probably represent this species, which was so designated 
by Hughes. 
Agave unguiculata n. sp. 
Plates B and 39. 
Agave sp. Hart, Rept. Trinidad Gard., 1890 (see Gard. Mag., vol. 35, p. 160, 1892), as to St. Lucia. 
General dimensions and aspect of A. Karatto. Leaves green, broadly lanceolate, 28 by 
200 em., concave; spine dark chestnut, stoutly conical, awl-shaped, unguiculately recurved, 
5-6 by 10-15 mm., flat on the upper face becoming involute at base, shortly decurrent, deeply 
intruded into the green tissue dorsally; prickles reddish chestnut, usually 5-10 mm. apart, 1-2 
mm. long, nearly straight, triangular-acuminate, the intervening margin often a little concave. 
Inflorescence panicled; pedicels as much as 20 mm. long. Flowers golden yellow, 75-80 mm. 
long; ovary 45-50 mm. long, considerably exceeding the perianth, oblong-fusiform, somewhat 
constricted shortly above the base; tube conical, about 12 mm. deep; segments 6 by 20-25 mm., 
about half as long as the ovary; filaments inserted rather below the throat, 40-45 mm. long, 
twice as long as the segments. Fruit and bulbils unknown. 
Caribbees. The “‘langue & boeuf” of St. Lucia. 
Specimens examined: Sr. Lucia. Casembas (Moore, 1, 1910, the type). 
Agave ventum-versa n. sp. 
Plates B and 40. 
A. caribaea? Kew Bull., 1893, p. 280. 
General aspect of A. Karatto. Leaves green, lanceolate, 10 by 100 cm. and more; spine 
red-chestnut, becoming gray, smooth, slightly polished, somewhat upcurved, conical, involutely 
grooved to or beyond the middle, 4-6 by 20-25 mm., decurrent and dorsally intruded into the 
green tissue; prickles reddish fading to gray, 5-10 mm. apart, 2-3 mm. long, straight or some- 
what recurved or even doubly bent, very broadly triangular, the intervening often continuously 
papery margin nearly straight, sometimes with minute intercalated cusps. Inflorescence 
paniculate. Flowers yellow, 50 mm. long; ovary 25-30 mm. long, rather longer than the 
perianth, fusiform; tube conical, about 5 mm. deep; segments 4 by 20 mm., considerably 
shorter than the ovary; filaments inserted nearly in the throat, scarcely 30 mm. long, one-half 
longer than the segments. Fruit and bulbils unknown. 
Caribbees. St. Vincent; rocky cliffs on the leeward side of the island. 
Specimens examined: Str. Vincent (A. H. and G. W. Smith, 1705; Sands, 1909, the type). 
Differing from the other Caribaeae in its more horny-based spine and nearly deltoid though 
not very thick prickles. 
ANTILLANAE. 
Plates 41 to 82. 
Mostly large or very large not cespitose acaulescent plants with numerous curved fleshy 
more or less glossy usually green leaves with long variously grooved often papery-decurrent 
spine and moderately large usually subdistant prickles; mostly ample more or less open panicles; 
medium-sized or large yellow or orange rarely congested flowers; rather large usually stipitate 
capsules, and medium-sized seeds. Sometimes bulbiferous. 
Confined to the Greater Antilles and Virgin Islands. 
