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292657 to 292683— Continued 



292674. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20089. Roadside 4 miles west of Rio Verde, road from San Luis 

 Potosi. Elevation 3,200 feet. Plants large, glaucous gray, maguey; leaves 

 fluted; margins undulate; panicle to 30 feet high with 18 wide laterals in 

 upper third; ovary and tepals green, rest pale yellow. Cultivated. 



292675. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20093. Roadside volcanic cliff, 55 miles southeast of San Luis 

 Potosi, road to Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi. Elevation 3,500 feet. Plant 

 narrow leaved ; rosettes forming one clone ; leaves sprawling. 



292676. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20094. Roadside volcanic cliff, 55 miles southeast of San Luis 

 Potosi, road to Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi. Elevation 3,500 feet. Plant 

 green; rosettes radial; leaves appressed, except terminal cone. 



292677. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20095. Limestone oak forest, Sierra de Manuel, southeast of 

 Ciudad San Luis Potosi, road to Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi. Elevation 

 5,000 feet. Plant stiff, erect; rosettes green, suckering; leaves narrow, 

 falcate, ascending, curving, margin narrow, friable; teeth small, distal; 

 spikes to 15 feet high; tepals pale yellow within; anthers yellow; filaments 

 pale pinkish, rest pale waxy green. 



292678. Agave asperrima Jacobi 



Col. No. 20008. Sand hill with gravel 5 miles south of Zapata along 

 Route 83, Tex. Rosettes medium large, glaucous gray, suckering; leaves 

 few, thick at base; trunks big; panicles open with 10-12 wide laterals in 

 upper half; ovary and tepals green to pale yellow, erect. 



292679. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20010. Route 83, 4 miles south of Rio Grande City, Starr County, 

 Tex. Rosettes medium sized, green, suckering; leaves erect. 



292680. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20079. Limestone cliff, 22 miles northeast of Jacala, Route 85, 

 Hidalgo. Elevation 4,250 feet. Rosettes occasionally clustered; leaves 

 few; teeth mostly weak; flowers variable in size and color, green without, 

 yellow to lavender and purple within. 



292681. Agave sp. 



Col. No. 20076. Six miles east of Ciudad del Maiz, road to Antigua 

 Morelos, San Luis Potosi. Elevation 3,750 feet. Rosettes medium size, 

 suckering; leaves broad, pale green to light glaucous; teeth regular on 

 crenate margins. 



292682. Manfreda sp. Amaryllidaceae. 



Col. No. 20077. Limestone outcrop, 8 miles southwest of Gomez Farias, 

 Tamaulipas. Elevation 3,750 feet. Plants polycarpic, green, forming open 

 mounds ; leaves soft, tender ; teeth and leaf length variable ; spikes tense or 

 lax, to 3.5 meters tall; flowers green outside, yellow inside; capsules fleshy. 



292683. Runyonia sp. Amaryllidaceae. 



Col. No. 20011. In shade, near Falcon, east of Route 83, Zapata County, 

 Texas. Plant small, brindle-leaved rosette; flowers open, white, turning 

 purple. 



292684 and 292685. 



From Nigeria. Stolons and seeds collected by G. W. Burton, Georgia Coastal 

 Plains Experiment Station, Tifton, Georgia. Received Aug. 27, 1963. 



292684. Cynodon sp. Poaceae. 



Col. No. 1. Shika Animal and Grassland Pasture Station, Shika. 

 Plants coarse, very tall, relatively disease free; rhizomes long. (Stolons). 



