— 25 *- 
l 
5 inches longH 
[eaves are, rafln 
robust spine, 
angles andi|jr ■ 
, brown mar-H 
to the upper® 
y small, onlf^H 
>n upper, aniH 
ape 8-12 feetR 
riches wide a! 
gular, close!' R 
margins ancR 
5, about 3 f# 
considerably 
flattened, I inch wide, 6 inches long; ultimate pedicels usually 
2-3 lines long. Flowers over 2 inchfes, the perigon 12-14 lines 
long, tube 4-4i lines long and wide, |obe 9-9 £ lines long and 2 
wide ; stamens inserted at the base of the lobes, the inferior a lit¬ 
tle lower than the ekterior ones; filaments if inches, anthers 10 
•'lines long ; style often at last longer than stamens. Capsule wider 
pn proportion to its length than in any other of our species belong¬ 
ing to this section, about if inches long and half as wide; seeds 
I4 lines wide, with flat, punctulate, strongly marked reticulation, 
Risible under a strong glass. 
R&12. Agave Antillarum, Descourt. Flor. med. AntilL 4 tab. 
284 (1827) : subcaulescens ; foliis late lanceolato-linearibus elon- 
jgatis, margine aculeis parvis distantibus rectis recuryisve fuscis 
|%rmato, spina terminali valida fusca -terete basi solnm anguste 
pcanaliculata; scapo sub-10-pedali; paniculae ovatae ramis hori- 
feontalibus, pediceMis longiusculis dense fasciculatis ; florum (au- 
Rahtiacorum) ovario perigonio longiore, tubo late infundibiliformi 
Plobis lineari-oblongis erecto-patulis ter quaterve breviore, stami- 
' nibus basi loborum insertis longe exsertis ; capsula ovato-prisma- 
tica cuspidafia basi in stipitem brevem contracta. 
m; San Domingo, Parry & Wright, U. S. Expl. Exp., Feb. 1871, 
> in flower.—The unusual color of the flower and the native coun¬ 
try of the plant make it almost certain that this is DescourtiFs 
plant, and I adopt his, the oldest, name, even if Grisebach’s (Flor. 
West Ind. p. 5^2) suggestion should prove true, that it might be 
identical with A. s ob pilfer a, Salm, hort. 1834 (A. vivipara , Lam.,' 
non Lin.) This plant is also reported to come from San Domingo 
and Jamaica, but to have greenish or yellowish-green flowers 
[ (Jacobi, Ag. 122) and to bear capsules as well as bulblets, whence 
the names ; but none of our botanists seem to have observed such 
proliferation, which in other allied Agaves and in a Fourcroya 
were duly noticed. The measurements taken by them in San 
Domingo of a “medium specimen” are: height of leaf-bearing 
trunk 2 feet, length of leaf 30-36, greatest width 4! inches ; scape 
•! 8-10 feet high, at base 2\ inches thick, length of lower branches 
Of the panicle 9, of middle 12, and upper 3 inches; nearly 100 
Mowers on the strongest branches. 
I, A single leaf before me is 3 feet long and 3! inches wide, the 
terminal spine 9 lines long, a narrow groove occupying only f of 
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cm 
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