AGAVES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
broad, 4 to 5 cm. from huso of stylo to tii>sof lofio-. %vhi. ii 
are a little longer than tho tu})o: tilainont^ in^i'rT( (i ,i litti.' 
above the middle of tube and niiirh })rotnulf(l : a[!lli('i> 27 
Umlo<t dr.uuvU'V: llo'.wr. fill.-d 1,. lla- brim uith a uliitish, 
-IiirlitlynauM"nnn.LMU'.t:ir.— Trails. >t.L(»ui^ Acad. iii. 314 
and 579, Colkrtod Writin<z<, .'ill, .'UC. ( Tlato- U and 47 
are taken from Engelmaivn's illustration of the plant which 
bloomed at the Garden). — Terr. Mono^rr. 41» : Baker, 
Amaryllideae, 172. — On mesas near coast in Southwestern 
California, as far north as Point Loma and extending 
southwards in Lower California. Abundant in vicinity of 
Western Initial Boundary Monument. — Plates 44 to 47. 
Specimens examined: — From Dr. Parry; Dr. Palmer, 
1875, San Diego; G. B. Hitchcock, ISW., 1875; Missouri 
Botanical Garden, flowers, Feb., 1877; C. R. Orcutt, 
Lower California, April, 1886 ; G. W. Drown, San Diego, 
July, 1895; T. S. Brandegee, Lower California, April, 
1892. 
= =LeaTes relatively narrow, often long; acaulescent. New Mexico 
A. Palmeri Engelm. — Leaves numerous, ascending and 
spreading, deep gi-een, usually concave on upper side, more 
or less glaucous, sometimes crenate, 20 to 150 cm. long, 
5 to 12 cm. wide, oblanceolate, tapering; end-spine slender, 
brown, channeled, 20 to 35 mm. long; homy margin 
more or less decurrent ; prickles rather close set, variable 
in size, large ones often alternating with smaller, flexuous 
or recurved; scape 25 to 36 dm. or even 65 dm. high, and 
may be as much as 15 cm. in diameter at base, clothed with 
short, broad bracts ; panicle long, open ; liowers greenish 
or yellowish- white, sometimes yellow, 40 to 55 mm. long; 
segments 12 to 15 mm. long, shorter than the tube, the 
exterior ones hooded and thickened at the apex, interior ones 
broader; filaments long, inserted above or below the middle 
