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flattened, I inch wide, 6 inches long; ultimate pedicels usually 
2-3 lines long. Flowers over 2 inches, the perigon 12-14 lines 
long, tube 4-4 £ lines long and wide, lobe 9-9£ lines long and 2 
wide ; stamens inserted at the base of the lobes, the inferior a lit¬ 
tle lower than the exterior ones; filaments if inches, anthers 10 
lines long ; style often at last longer than stamens. Capsule wider 
in 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 
4 lines wide, with flat, punetulate, strongly marked reticulation, 
visible under a strong glass. 
12. Agave Antillarum, Descourt. Flor . med. Antill. 4 tab. 
284 (1827) : subcaulescens ; foliis late lanceolato-linearibus elon- 
gatis, margine aculeis parvis distantibus rectis recurvisve fuscis 
armato, spina terminali valida fusca terete basi solum anguste 
canaliculata; scapo sub-10-pedali; paniculae ovataB ramis hori- 
zontalibus, pedicellis longiusculis dense fasciculatis ; florum (au- 
rantiacorum) ovario perigonio longiore, tubo late infundibiliformi 
lobis lineari-oblongis erecto-patulis ter quaterve breviore, stami- 
nibus basi loborum insertis longe exsertis ; capsula ovatp-prisma- 
tica cuspidata basi in stipitem brevem contracta. 
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 Descourtil’s 
plant, and I adopt his, the oldest, name, even if Grisebach’s (Flor. 
West Ind. p. 582) suggestion should prove true, that it might be 
identical with A. sobolifera , Salm, hort. 1834 vivifara, 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 
flowers on the strongest branches. 
A single leaf before me is 3 feet long and 3J inches wide, the 
terminal spine 9 lines long, a narrow groove occupying only f of 
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