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f domain. The spikes are slender, the flowers fragrant, the stig- 
matic lobes wide-spreading. 
1. Agave maculosa, ! Hook . Bat. Mag. rr859,-51 5122 : fob is 
e candice subterraneo crassb cyiiii$irico lanceolatodmearibtis con- 
cavis undulatis demum recurvatis glaucis lurido-md’culatis- carti- 
lagineo-denticulatis ; spicae laxiflorae braeteis laneeolnto-spbulatis*; 
-ovario ovato-lanceolato brevl, lobis lineari-oblongis erecto-patulis - 
tiibo gracili subcylindrico sUrsum parum ampliato plerumque 
multo brevioribus, staminibusfauci ipsae insertis lobo&yix aequan- 
’tibus- styhim plerumque superantibbs, stigmatibus : derpirm p&tulis 
'bbcordatis ; capsnla oblonga longe.cuspidata basi in stipitenfcpn- 
dfacta.— A. piaculata , Engelm. in.Bot. Mex. Bound. 1S59, pv Mq, 
^non; Regel; A. Virginica r Torr. ibid., non al. 
* "Var. j3. BRpviTUBA : lobis perigonii tubo magis atnpiiato fere 
* asqttilongis, antheris loVgioribus. * 
Along the Rio Grande from belo^'El Paso to Matamprps, 
'WrsKzehus, 1847 ; Bigelow, 1850-52 ; the variety below 
El Paso, Wright, No. May and June.—The^caudexj 
somewhat different from the allied species, is a black cylindric 
; Stock 2-I inches thick and 4-6 inches long,-bearing thick white 
radical fibres at the base. Leaves 2-1 foot long, as many inches 
'■'svidepcoucavej flexuous, at length recurved-; scape 2-q.Peet high, 
Spike ; 6^X2'inches long; fragrant purplish-green flowers, about 
H-2I inches long ; ovary 3-4 lines, tube 1 inch and lobes 7-9 lines 
long, filaments* and anthers : as long as lobes. The stigma is 
* remarkable on account of the deep, emargination, almost biloba- 
‘ tion, which form is only indicated in other Agaves,'but is distinct 
in Polyanthes. The' firmer ^texture of the capsule (i | inches 
dong, i inch thick), and its stipe and beak, further characterise 
■ this 1 species. Seed 2-2 £ linCs. wide,-thicker than ustial in this 
genus, marked by a flat reticulation. 
2. Agave Virginica, Lin. : acaulis ; foliis late seu obtongo- 
‘ lanceolatis concavis. undulatis flexuosis demum recujvis kete viri- 
:JdibuS' her^aceo mucrdnatis margine -asperatis; perigonii ovario 
!°joir 
weral^of these American plants 
characters are wanting in Poly; 
to Polyanthes Mexicana, Zucc 
r^spshortthat they rpay be 1 called includ 
:he Asiatic genus Polyanthes; but they h 
iry and ^laments doubled up in the bud, t 
, Kunth (En 5, $*48) already suggests 1 
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