!>i 
: of 
triangular, dark colored spine, grooved on the upper side, and eplaati* one < 
about ^ inch long. Scape 8 feet high, flowers ~ aroun 
a long, loose 
raceme or contracted panicle ; bracts lanceolate, about £ inch «)',deeply concave, 
long; branchlets 1-3 inches apart, 1-2 inches long, bearing , 2-5 ^iiractedabove t e v 
(not opposed) flowers. The whole flowerbud, just about open- fct, pale teeth, wn 
ing, nearly 1 inch long ; prismatic ovary equal to perigon ; tube .usually long(1—2 me 
very short, only % or £ of the lobes ; short stamens, which, when Hopwith a deep m 
fully developed, probably will not be much longer than the peri- dark colored ed 
gon, from near the base of the tube ; anthers 4L-5 lines long-.* ^^^■Oeoftheleaf, bear: 
ly^Splong); below the 
f t Stamina tubi fauci inserta. The Stalk is, a 
10. Agave deserti, n. sfi.: acaulis; foliis crassis glaucis dies thick below. T 
supra basin latissimam aculeato-dentatam leviter contractis ovato- jlfjpontal below, long 
lanceolatis sursum sensim attenuatis in spinam gracilem elongatam:' tet upwards, divide 
compressam ad medium anguste canaliculatam excurrentibus| ; ;^ keels, 2-3 lines in 1 
margine sursum corneo obscuro infra herbaceo aculeis uncinatis^ ' Asion of bright yel 
flexuosis. fuscis armato ; scapo graciliore bracteis distantibi&f 'athe perigon and 
foliaceis lanceolato attenuatis dentatis stipato, ramulis paniculae jes long, tube only 
superioribus erectis, pedicellis fasciculatis longiusculis ; floris seslong and 2 J wide 
flavi ovario subprismatico perigonium fere aequante, tubo infun^ ice their length ; ar 
dibuliformi brevissimo lobis oblongis erecto-patulis quater s. quin- ^ ^ jj nes w j c j e 
Agave Parryi 
quies breviore, staminibus loborum basi insertis ipsis lobis duplo 
longioribus ; capsula oblongo-prismatica breviter cuspidata. ' 
Eastern base of the Southern California mountains and in thfe 
adjoining deserts. FI. in June, but occasionally, as most of these 
plants do, at ether seasons.—The then Lieut. Emory,* in the ad¬ 
venturous expedition to California in the fall of 1846, was the 
first to discover this species in Valcitron, southeast of San Felipe. 
A few years later Dr. Parry found it “on the arid hills and valleys” 
in the same region, and drew up a full description, but did not 
collect any specimens. Since then it was lost sight of until within 
this year, when horticultural collectors again brought it into no¬ 
tice. My specimens were obtained from Mr. G. N. Hitchcock"^ 
San Diego and Dr. E. Palmer. 
ngton, 1848, p. 104, he says 
.mounted and \ 
of them used : 
herbarium. 
B ra basin dilatatan 
Bcem attenuatis spi 
Bnata decurrente t 
fcs rectis seu p 
■magnis foliaceis 
robustis horiz 
V nu roerosissimos 
ovario prism ati 
ipdibuliformi lobi 
staminibus sun 
; | stamina exce 
-iJHBNibus majusculii 
under date, h Bound, p. 21 3, 
md one in- ^ 
0 c henschr, 
> b °dy | kp. 229, quoad 
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