AGAVE IN THE WEST INDIES—TRELEASE. Z1 
An elusive form known to me only from the photographs here reproduced, and dissociated 
flowers, and therefore very inadequately characterized, but shown by these to be distinct 
and evidently one of the Viviparae. Intermediate in foliage between A. Cocui of the adjacent 
mainland and A. Boldinghiana of the more western islands, but with smaller inflorescence 
than either; much narrower leaved than the correspondingly small A. vivipara and A. vicina. 
Specimens examined: Trinipap (Crueger, 1333, Herb. Urban, flowers only, the type). 
Isolated flowers collected on Margarita (Miller and Johnston, 243, 1901), and the corresponding 
reference, may represent this species. 
Agave Boldinghiana n. sp. 
Plates 11 to 13. 
Nearly acaulescent, suckering. Leaves green, transiently somewhat glaucous, narrowly 
oblanceolate, subacuminate, openly concave, 15 by 100 cm.; spine red-brown, smooth, polished 
toward the end, somewhat upcurved-flexuous, acicular, grooved and usually involute toward 
the base, 2-4 by 25-30 mm., shortly decurrent; prickles from scarlet becoming chestnut, 
mostly 10-15 mm. apart, 4-7 mm. long, often irregularly upcurved above and recurved below, 
heavily triangular or from lunate bases, the intervening margin rather straight. Inflorescence 
about 5 m. high, the upper half or less narrowly oblong-paniculate with few distant ascending 
branches; bracts narrowly triangular, rather distant, appressed; pedicels 5 mm. long. Flowers 
golden, 45 mm. long; ovary 20-25 mm. long, equaling the perianth, broadly fusiform; tube 
conical, about 7 mm. deep; segments 4 by 15 mm., shorter than the ovary; filaments inserted 
nearly in the throat, about 35 mm. long and twice as long as the segments. Fruit unknown. 
Freely bulbiferous. 
Leeward Islands. Called “koeki ae or sometimes ‘‘koeki indian.” 
Specimens examined: Curacao (Boldingh, A2, 1909, the type; Ecker, 1909, 1910). 
BonarreE (Boldingh, 7456, etc., 1910, with more crowded and smaller prickles,—perhaps varietally 
separable). CARIBAEAE 
Plates 14 to 40. 
Rather large not cespitose acaulescent plants with numerous suberect fleshy usually green 
leaves, with the mostly short spine or mucro continued at base by thick hardened involutely 
slit leaf tissue which is papery-decurrent and usually deeply intruded dorsally into the paren- 
chyma, and small or minute rather close-set prickles; somewhat contracted but ample panicles 
often with ascending branches; medium-sized or fairly large yellow or golden scarcely congested 
flowers; abundant inflorescence bulbils; and, when present, rather large stipitate capsules and 
rather large seeds. 
Confined to the Caribbees and Leeward Islands. Two southern species (Agave ventum 
versa and A. unguiculata) are aberrant. 
Spine with large inrolled base. , 
Flowers moderate (scarcely 65 mm.) with rather shallow (5-10 mm.) tube. 
Spine obliquely mucronate or recurved. 
Prickles moderate. 
Leaves green. 
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Sl ebaseconiead | armlcro int Od era veer area ee eee Se aes 5 eee eee eee A. Van Grolae. 
DPIMe reciInved, SCAncehyaMlIcCronatesa= es sens y= tee cee = See eae ee eee A. nevidis. 
MeaVesieTay -eTMUCroOmatierlONg ses sekes see ails seees ace eee esse oe suet eee A. montserratensis. 
iRricklesirathersmall. sshenanthish Onbsasca= setae ets) sgs a fase nario a aescgecis dss a gsiee A. medioxima. 
ricklessmimtesey OVaryash ON bss sary sets ios Sage Sera Me Mie aleteieie osu ite, ieee elec ete Sete A. grenadina. 
Spine conical rather than mucronate. 
Prickles moderate. 
Spine very slenderly pointed, rather recurved...........-.-------------------- A. Scheuermaniana. 
Spine moderate, usually upcurved. 
Capsules broadly oblong. 
WapculeshvenysOLOAG mek CdICels lONOz amet kee Setiaie acai) ayo see vei Since cee A. obducta. 
Capsulesiandipedicels:moderatesa: may seaeoe Aetisae cise nsec a Ses aoe Utes bed A. Trankeera. 
Capsulesmarrowly oblong.» Redicelslong ese. esses. --o eee eee aoe eee oe oe A. Dussiana. 
