﻿AGAVE MACKOACAXTHA AND ALLIED LLAGAVt^b. 4 



and the green flowers, thougli obviously those of Euagave, 

 are shown as sohtary or paired in a short raceme. 



No clear record is found of subsequent trade importations 

 of any of the macroacantha group, though a glaucous specimen 

 was exhibited in May 1874 at Florence by Verschaffelt, 

 and in England by Croucher, as A. Besseriana Tnajor.^ _ 



Reference has already been made to an Agave advertised 

 by De Smett under the name A. Cord^oyii, with the state- 

 ment that it was unrelated to any other species, and that 

 the Belgian stock consisted of a single individual. _ This 

 apphes inferentially to what Jacobi had taken for Karwinskii. 

 Another plant of this had evidently been sold to Corderoy, 

 whose name was affixed to the species: this specimen was 

 subsequently resold to Peacock,! and served as the type 

 of A. Corderoyi Baker.§ The name Corderoyi is found men- 

 tioned in 1874,11 at about which time Nardy sold it, and A 

 Corderoyi bremfolm is said to have been among the plants 

 exhibited by Verschaffelt at Florence that year.f _ 



On the basis of the large English succulent collections 

 of the day which contained most of the novelties and aided 

 by such Continental collections as those of EUemeet and 

 Kerchove which perpetuated more or less authontative^^^^ 

 the names of Jacobi's period, though the still earlier types 

 had been scattered or lost to cultivation for the most part, 

 Mr. Baker now revised the Agaves.** Of the forms here in 

 question, he admits A. macracantha (p. 137) noting his in- 

 ability to separate specifically A. f^vescens, A- Bes'ererzana 

 A. Bessereriarm candid^ (/. 27, as A J^^' 

 falcata, or A. Imearis. In the Peacock collection he found 

 a plant under the name A. sudburyensis to which, for some 

 reason, he transferred the specific name corwmna (which xvas 

 * Th^ Garden. 7: 456. (1875).-Belg. Hort. 1875: 43. 

 i ColToy SrcLon'n.T8t460. (1877). -Mention is also n.ade 

 § Baker, Gard. Chron. n.s. 8 : 398- f- '9. (18/7). 

 ;B:feH::::^:S-The Garden. 7 :450. (1875). 

 ** Baker, Gard. Chron. n. s. 8. (187/). 



