AGAVE IN THE WEST INDIES—TRELEASE. 19 
Leeward Islands. The ‘“‘koeki [cocui] indian’ of Curacao. The earliest named West 
Indian species of the genus. 
Specimens examined: Curacao (Boldingh, A 3, 5698, 1909; Ecker, 1909, 1910). 
Agave vicina n. sp. 
Plates 4 and 10. 
Acaulescent, not suckering?. Leaves dull, very broadly oblanceolate, rather acute, openly 
concave, 15 by 50 cm. ; spine gray-brown, smooth, polished onlynear the end, somewhat upcurved, 
conical, round-grooved below the middle and involute, 3-4 by 15-25 mm., decurrent and 
intruded into the green tissue dorsally; prickles 15-20 mm. apart, 4-8 mm. long, upcurved 
above and recurved below, rather heavily triangular, sometimes from very large half round 
green or drying prominences, the intervening margin often deeply concave. Inflorescence 
about 4 m. high, the upper third narrowly oblong-panicled with rather ascending branches; 
bracts broadly triangular, separated except at the base; pedicels scarcely 5 mm. long. Mature 
flowers, fruit, and bulbils unknown. 
Leeward Islands. The “koeki spanjool” or “koekoe indian” of Aruba. 
Specimens examined: AruBa (Boldingh, 3, 5, 1910, the type). 
Agave Cocui n. sp. 
Plates 5 to 7. 
A. americana HumBoupt, New Spain, vol. 2, p. 472, 1808; Neuspan., vol. 2, p. 71 (Stuttgart Ed.); Ansichten der Natur, 
3d ed., vol. 2, p, 214, 1849; Views of Nature, p. 333, 1850; Travels, vol. 1, pp. 226, 275, 329, 444, 477, and 484; vol. 
2, pp. 258 and 506, 1852.—Humso.tpt, BonrLanp, and Kuntu, Nov. Gen. Sp., vol. 1, p. 297, 1815.—Kuntu, Syn. 
Pl. . . . Humboldt and Bonpland, vol. 1, p. 299, 1822—Orto, Allgem. Gartenzeit., vol. 12, p. 158, pl. 2, 
1844.—Ernst, Journ. Bot., vol. 3, p. 281, 1865; vol. 5, p. 269, 1867; Familias . . . Venezuela, p. 26, 1881.—_JoHow, 
Kosmos, vol. 17, pp. 188 and 193, 1885. 
A. Morrisii var. Worstry, Distrib. Amaryll., p. 7, 1895. 
Agave sp. THERESE VON Bayern, Reisestudien, vol. 1, pp. 28-30, 1908. 
Essentially acaulescent, suckering. Leaves transiently glaucous, soon green and glossy, 
broadly lanceolate, rather quickly acute or subacuminate, deeply and sometimes tortuously 
concave, plicate, 30 by 110 cem.; spine red-brown, smooth, triquetrously conical, shallowly 
grooved below the middle and involute below, 3-4 by 15-25 (or even 5 by 30) mm., decurrent 
and dorsally intruded into the green tissue; prickles red-chestnut, usually 10-20 mm. apart, 
3-4 mm. long, mostly upcurved above and recurved below, acuminately triangular or from 
lunate bases on green or at length hardening prominences, the intervening margin concave. 
Inflorescence 9 m. high, the upper half narrowly oblong-paniculate with nearly horizontal 
branches; bracts narrowly triangular, not imbricated, at length recurved; pedicels about 5 mm. 
long. Flowers yellow, 50-60 mm. long; ovary 25-30 mm. long, about equaling the perianth, 
rather oblong; tube openly cofical, 5-6 mm. deep; segments 5-6 by about 20 mm., shorter than 
the ovary; filaments inserted a little below the throat, 40-45 mm. long, about twice as long as 
the segments. Capsules oblong, 20-25 by 40-50 mm., little stipitate or beaked; seeds 5-6 by 
7-9 mm. Freely bulbiferous. 
Venezuela. The “cocui” of the coast region about Caracas and Cumand, extending into 
the interior perhaps as far as the confluence of the Apure and Orinoco rivers. 
Specimens examined: VENEZUELA. About Caracas (Gollmer, June 9, 1853; Pitia- Maya 
Sisal Company, 1906; Ustariz, 1909; Zuloaga, 1910, the type). La Guayra (Boldingh, 1910). 
Guanta (Boldingh, 1910). 
This Agave is now known as ‘‘cocui,’’ but Humboldt called it “‘cocuiza”’ and applied the 
name ‘‘cocui’’ or ‘‘maguey de cocui”’ to the Furcraea of the Venezuelan coast region which is now 
called ‘‘cocuiza.”’ + The “‘pitte” of which bridge ropes are sometimes made in the Andes, which 
Humboldt? believed to be secured from the roots of Agave americana, as he called A. Cocui, is 
more likely to be the leaf fiber of a Furcraea, of which Andean species are known. 
1 Furcraea Humboldtiana Trelease, Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Suppl. vol. 3, p. 907, pl. 38, 1910. 
2 Rech. America, vol. 2, p. 72, pl. 13, 1814: The bridge at Penipé. 
