capsule 8-9 lines wide, less high ; seeds over 4 lines wide. This 
. variety has retained its peculiarities in cultivation with me. 
Of the sport with crowded, often antholytic flowers, and with a 
tendency to fasciation, I have before spoken (p. 296, note). 
3. Agave variegata, Jacobi , Hamb. Gart. Zeitg . 21, p. 
^g'ptMgav. p. 180; Saunders Refug. Bot. v. t. 326: acaulis ; 
foliis late lanceolatis undulatis margine asperato denticulatis; 
perigonii tubo late #nfundibuliformi ovario oblongo paulo lon- 
giore lobos ovato-oblongos patulos demum reftexos longitudine 
aequante seu eis paulo breviore, filamentis superiori tubi parti 
adnatis longe exsertis, stylo demum stamina superante; capsula 
oblonga cuspidata. 
On the lower Rio Grande near Mier and Matamoros, Dr. J. 
Gregg, May, 1847. —Leaves (before me) 9-10 inches long, 1^-2 
inches wide ; edge similar to that of the last, but teeth often 
sharper and curved upwards ; scape “3-5 feet high” ; flowers in 
Dr. Gregg’s specimen about f inch apart, in the axil of a broad 
triangular bract, 4 lines long, upwards smaller. Flowers 
inches long; ovary, tube, and lobes, of nearly equal length, 6 
lines, or tube a little shorter and lobes a little longer; stamens 
inserted about f or f up the tube, not at the base of the lobes, and 
about 2 inches in length; anthers \ inch long; style slender, at 
last often longer than the stamens; only capsule seen io lines 
long and 6 wide ; seeds unusually oblique (always?), 2? lines in 
longest diameter. 
I refer this plant from the Rib Grande With some hesitation to 
Jacobi’s and Saunders’ A. variegata, the stamens of which are 
said to be inserted “in the throat,” whatever that may mean ; the 
leaves of this plant, which is said to be “probably” from Mexico, 
and which has repeatedly flowered in Europe, are mottled with 
lurid blotches, of which in my dried specimen no trace is visible. 
I have not the means to ascertain whether any of the older names, 
such as A. brachystachys , Cav., or A. polyanthoides, Hort., refer 
to this same plant ; the former, however, seems to be a larger 
plant, with larger “ entire” leaves ; A. saponaria , Lindl., is cer¬ 
tainly also similar, but, if the figure in Bot. Reg. 25 t. 55 is to be 
relied on, is well-distinguished by having a prismatic flowertube. 
The insertion of stamens in the tube is not mentioned by Lindley, 
