



refugium Botanicun. | (July, 1872. 
TAB. 328. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE. 
Genus AGAVE, Linn. 
A. Scorymus (Karwinski in Salmdyck Hort. 1834, p. 807). Acaulis, 
foliis circiter 80 dense rosulatis crassissimis rectis glauco- 
viridibus oblongo-lanceolatis 18—21 poll. longis supra medium 
4—41 poll. latis spina valida brunnea canaliculata biunciali 
terminatis facie planis dorso convexis marginibus dentibus 
corneis validis uncinatis subdistantibus semipollicem longis 
armatis, scapo 12-pedali, floribus thyrsoideo-paniculatis ad 
apicem ramorum fasciculatis geminatis breviter pedicellatis, 
perianthio triunciali viridi-flavido, ovario oblongo-clavato, seg- 
mentis oblongo-lanceolatis tubo infundibuliformi equilongis, 
filamentis leviter exsertis, antheris magnis linearibus.—Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 824. 
A native of Mexico. 
Acaulescent. Leaves about thirty, densely rosulate, oblong- 
lanceolate, reaching eighteen to twenty-one inches long, four to 
four and a half inches broad above the middle, terminated by a 
channelled hard brown spine two inches long, a pale permanently 
glaucous-green, half an inch thick in the middle, an inch and 
a half to two inches at the base, the face flat, the back convex, 
the edge margined by strong hard pungent hooked subdistant 
spines three-eighths to half an inch long. Scape twelve feet high 
in the specimen drawn, exclusive of the inflorescence, two and a 
half to three inches thick at the base. Panicle four feet long by 
half as broad, regularly thyrsoid; the branches with only dense 
bundles of short-stalked geminate flowers clustered at the apex. 
Perianth three inches long, green, passing upwards into yellow ; 
ovary green, oblong-cylindrical, fourteen to fifteen lines long; 
segments oblong-lanceolate, equalling the funnel-shaped tube. 
Filaments three-fourths of an inch longer than the segments ; 
anthers linear, an inch long. Style falling a little short of the 
filaments. 
Taz. 328.—1, whole plant; 2, leaf: both much reduced. 3, apex 
of leaf, natural size. 4, cluster of flowers, reduced. 5, pair of flowers; 
6, stamen: both natural size.—J. G. B. 
