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oe and other specimens have ouatiled Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 
pas of the He eroenist t Kew, to draw up the following 
rm dein of the plant 
AGAVE (EUAGAVE) DECIPIENS, BAKER. 
Candice demum 3-4-pedali, foliis dense rosulatis ensifor vm 
rigidis demum 4-pedalibus utrinque levissimis viridibus infra mediu 
ad apicem sensim angustatis, facie sæpi is, spiná ternilai 












; nd convex on the ra flat ; piri 
T moderately close, deltoid, cuspidate, brown-black, not more — 
mele with panicle. ‘about five ie as long as the leaves. is 
8-10. fet long, with a rather flexuose axis, and usually iru ki 
f flowers owers terminating the laxly-disposed simple arcuate 
YUAN s arranged i in dense clusters, “Ovary oblo Seg, ul ai long, . 
iin Pert nth greenish-yellow, aninch long ; tube broadly funnel- - 
shaped ; lobes complicate lanceolate from a dilated base, twice as 
long as the tu Stamens 18-21 lines long, inserted at the middle of 
-periant th saber -—m linear, 4 in. long. Style finally reaching 
) the top of the stamens. \ 
Belongs to the ibt tion Rigide and nearly allied' to A. rigida var. 
elongata, Ja cobi, from which it differs by its longer caudex and 
noave faced leaves, which are very smooth on both sides, and not at - 
us even 

* 
9d 
sk if it were cultivated for 
Jt G ) asm. 



