Jacobl* - 5 - Sept.. 23, 1871 



us seed or little plant s of your A.Ottohensis (probably incorrect,, 

 original has been connected by over-wri ting , E. D. ) , thi s wcmld be nost 

 interesting for us, Genera YLy, I ask you to send us everything you can- 

 obtain of Agava e even if sonetine Lacanetes (?T sho^ld get nixed in, 



The Inf ormat Ions fron the Bandary Botany about a nuraber of A^a- 



vae, speoif i cally v A. parvif lora. I did find at the time in the herbar, 



of Kew. In any Gase, your designation of the Agave named there A.gemi- 



niflora nnst be acoepted, beeause the Littaea of Gawler, geninif lora, 

 which is also a true A?rave, has this nane already.. 



Very interesting is f that the A, Antillarunr .of Lescoujfctil has been- 

 found again. Your description of the panicle, however, does not agree 

 with the Illustration' in the Flore des Antillen by Descoutil; The il- 

 lustration there shows a little developed 7 paniole with brancbes . of 

 apparentlv only 2nd orrler. Can't you porvide us with seed" f^on this 

 snecies ?' As to f inally A, riprida, I did find in France some more de- 

 veloped soeoineus of this species> speoially in the Jardin de Luxemboug,., 

 with a steur 1§ foot hi<rh, 5 11 dm strong and leaves of 2 feet length with 

 a very f oliage-rioh leaf orown. I own drawings and photographs of this 

 plant. Please send us if possible several forms of this cultured plant». 

 That many plants being oultivated and in other countries ohange sig- 

 nificantly and to the point,that they can not be recopnized , is a fact 



frequently reported', and does not surprise with A.ri^ida,. 



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Also the Fourcray leave us rauch in the dark, fron them oome probab- 

 ly the least number of species, as the majority of them raay belong to 

 the equatorial regions, which in this regard have been little explored,, 

 Apuhn raentions in his renort from Equador and Guyana frequently found' 

 Tourcrayae, without ever giving any detail s. 



Wallis, who travels for Linden in. Brüssels, brought fron the high- 

 lands of Equador a very pretty, panachial (??? E.D.) F. with rather 

 strong, fleshy leaves, which I have naraed F . Linderi.bnt have not yet 



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