Jacobi 



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March 19, lSfif 



pale cose-red, closely balle d together with the pistil.Anthers 

 light-yellow - reddish. Pistil rising above anthers, stigma vividly 

 lischt green.. 



For JE. pulchellus , acifer , brevispinus and pleiogonus the flowers 

 must be waited for. E. papllosus is skywide different fron E. penta- 

 lophus . Latyhorus (please check name,E.D.) though is very close to 

 E. - procurcbens. If you wish to obtain seeds of new and cnltivated 

 Mammilariae and Echinocacti I will collect them for you.. 

 Now to the Agava e 



That my Classification of the Agavae is only a poor makeshift 



I know very well, and acknowledge it ever more from day to day 

 as the nore I pene träte into the substance of this plant family. 

 As we know still few flowers, it becomes necessary, to find in a pre- 

 liminary way other important points;-and there I do see anyhow, , that 

 the determined characteri stics of the individual plants are placed 

 rather correctly» . A ^eat satifaction was granted rae, that my A. 

 Goenpe^tiana developedr its own and that very different species, which 

 again demands an entirely different division-, as the stamina in 

 alabastro non inflexa are, which is the case in no other so far knowrr 

 inf lorescence of Agava e, but only for the Faurorogae and Bernehor - 

 eriae. Thus A. Goep p ortiana is a true Agave. Description of the 

 flower will appear in the May issue of the Hamburg Garden News.. 



According to the inf lorescences the Agavae di stlnc tlyv fall into 

 two main groupsr, those with inf lorescentia panlculata and those with 

 inflorescentia spicata; acoordingly the para^raphs of my present di- 

 vision will have to be modified considerably.Thus, e . g. will my entire 

 nar. 1 probably belong to the spicati s f whereas par. 2 and 3 belong 

 centainly to the paniculati s. Very stränge is the formation of bulbs 

 ( ??? E.D.) in our snecies without developnent of a seed capsule. 



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