AGAVE IN THE WEST INDIES—TRELEASE. 27 
deep; segments 7-8 by 20 mm., two-thirds as long as the ovary; filaments inserted a little 
below the throat, 30-35 mm. long, one-half longer than the segments. Capsules ight brown, 
narrowly oblong, 20 by 50 mm., stipitate and beaked; seeds 7 by 8 mm. Bulbils unknown. 
Caribbees. The ‘‘karaté jaune,” “langue & boeuf,” or “salsepareille’”’ of Guadeloupe 
(though the last two names seem likewise to refer to Furcraea); perhaps also, but very ques- 
tionably, of the adjacent islands Désirade, Marie Galante, and Les Saintes. 
Specimens examined: GuapELouPE. Port Louis (Duss, 3961, 1898, the type). Culti- 
vated at Basse Terre (Mme. Carrére, 1911). 
Panicle characters are based on the description by Father Duss, which seems to have 
been drawn from local plants. The herbarium material (comprising bract, panicle-branches, 
flowers, capsules, and seeds) though ample, is confused in labeling. Of No. 2136, from Mar- 
tinique, only a few short-tubed flowers are recognizable as belonging to A. caribaeicola, but 
unmistakable flowers and capsules of the present species are found as of this number and 
locality. No. 53, labeled as from Antigua, is obviously the same, the flowers differing markedly 
in proportion from those of A. obducta as represented in the Grisebach herbarium, for the 
privilege of figuring which I am greatly indebted to Professor Peter of Géttingen. 
Agave caribaeicola n. sp. 
Plate 30. 
A. caribaea BAKER, Handbook Amaryllid., p. 190, 1888.—SzcuRaA, El Maguey, 4th ed., p. 116, 1901.—Both as to 
Hahn material. 
A. americana Duss, Ann. Inst. Colon., Marseille, vol. 3, p. 557, 1897.—Ursan, Symbol. Antillanae, vol. 4, p. 152, 
1903.—Both as to Martinique. 
Aspect of A. Karatto. Spine brown, smooth, rather polished, slightly upcurved, with 
conical involute basal thickening 3-4 by 15-20 mm., somewhat decurrent and dorsally intruded 
into the green tissue; prickles about 5 mm. apart, scarcely 1 mm. long, triangular, straight, 
scarcely lenticular, the intervening margin nearly straight. Inflorescence paniculate; pedicels 
15-20 mm. long. Flowers yellow, 60-70 mm. long; ovary 30-35 mm. long, about equaling 
the perianth, oblong-fusiform; tube open, about 8 mm. deep; segments 5-7 by 20-25 mm., 
shorter than the ovary; filaments inserted nearly in the throat, scarcely 40 mm. long, about 
one-half longer than the segments. Fruit and bulbils unknown. 
Caribbees. The ‘‘langue & boeuf” of Martinique. Pl. 30. 
Specimens examined: MARTINIQUE. Case Pilote (Hahn, 114, 1867-1870, the type). 
The polycarpic plant known in gardens about twenty-five years ago as A. caribaea, and 
described under that name by Mr. Baker in 1877,! appears to have been a Littaea allied to or 
identical with the continental A. chloracantha. Such a plant is now cultivated as caribaea, 
but I find no evidence that it came from the West Indies. 
Flowers of A. kewensis, as pictured in the Botanical Magazine (pl. 7532), agree almost 
exactly in size and details with the material of this species collected by Hahn, and the spine 
and prickles ascribed to kewensis by Jacobi (Versuch, pp. 197 and 242) are not dissimilar 
to those shown by Hahn’s leaf; but flowers preserved in the Kew herbarium from the type 
plant match these dried flowers less closely, and the elongated leaf-rosette and narrow spreading 
bracts make it questionable whether kewensis is really a prior name for what is here called 
caribaeicola, though it is hard to place kewensis elsewhere than near or with this. 
1 A. caraibaea J. VERSCHAFFELT, Cat., No. 17, p. 35, 1873-4; No. 18, p. 36, 1874; No. 19, p. 83, 1876-7.—Dz SMET, Cat., No. 7, p. 28, 1874; No. 10, 
D. 32, 1877.—_DELEUL, Rev. Hort., 1875, p. 204.—A. caraibea A. VAN GEERT, Cat., No.71, p.51, 1874-5.—_GriPH, Lyon Hort., 1879, p. 209.—A. caribaea 
DELEUL, Rev. Hort., 1875, p. 204.—BakeER, Gard. Chron., new ser., vol. 8, p. 683, 1877; Handbook Amaryllid., p. 190, 1888, as to foliage.—RIcASOLI, 
Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort., vol. 3, p. 302, 1878.—PEACOCK, List., p. 1, 1878—VON DER HEIDEN, Cat., 1880, p. 1l—Kew Hand List Tend. Monocot., p. 
109, 1897.—RosE in Bailey, Cyclop. American Hort., vol. 1, p. 36, 1900.—?BRAUN, Pflanzer, vol. 2, p. 233, 1906.—?DopGz, Rept. Fiber Invest. 
(U.S. Dept. Agric.), No. 5, p. 43, 1893. | 
