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Ta b . 7890.<br />

AGAVE Bakeri.<br />

Native of Mexico ?<br />

Nat. Ord. am a r y l l i d e æ.—Tribe ag a v e æ .<br />

Genus ag a v e , Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 738.)<br />

aga v e (Litæa) Bakeri; trunco 4-pedali, basi nudo coma 6 ped. diam. e foli<strong>is</strong> perplurim<strong>is</strong><br />

dens<strong>is</strong>sime confert<strong>is</strong> confecta, foli<strong>is</strong> 3 ped. long<strong>is</strong> undique patentirevolut<strong>is</strong><br />

medio 5 poll. lat<strong>is</strong> loriformi-lanceolat<strong>is</strong> haud crass<strong>is</strong> basi angustat<strong>is</strong><br />

supra planiuscul<strong>is</strong> subtus leviter convex<strong>is</strong> spina pollicari terminat<strong>is</strong>,<br />

marginibus lævibus purpure<strong>is</strong>, pedunculo brevi crasso foli<strong>is</strong> junioribus brevibus<br />

erect<strong>is</strong> cincto, racemo 8–9-pedali stricto erecto cylindraceo, floribus<br />

dens<strong>is</strong>sime confert<strong>is</strong>, bracte<strong>is</strong> floribus æquilong<strong>is</strong> e basi ovata rubro striata<br />

anguste linearibus, bracteol<strong>is</strong> triangularibus membranace<strong>is</strong> rubro striat<strong>is</strong><br />

pedicellos crassos ½-pollicares æquantibus, ovari<strong>is</strong> pollicaribus lineariobong<strong>is</strong><br />

teretibus, perianthii tubo ovario æquilongo obconico 6-sulcate, lobi<br />

pollicaribus lineari-oblong<strong>is</strong> obtus<strong>is</strong> revolut<strong>is</strong> extus viridibus intus alboviridibus<br />

fascia media saturatiore pict<strong>is</strong>, filament<strong>is</strong> 2-pollicaribus alb<strong>is</strong>,<br />

anther<strong>is</strong> pollicaribus anguste linearibus aure<strong>is</strong>, stylo filament<strong>is</strong> breviore<br />

apice subclavellato 3-lobulato.<br />

A. Bakeri, Hook. f., ex W. Watson in Garden, 1902, vol. i. p. 240, cum ic.<br />

reduct.<br />

A very d<strong>is</strong>tinct species of Agave, purchased for the Royal<br />

Gardens, Kew, at the sale of the late Mr. Peacock’s noble<br />

collection of Cactuses, Aloes, and Agaves in 1889, with no<br />

indication of its native country or collector. It flowered in<br />

the Mexican div<strong>is</strong>ion of the Temperate House in January<br />

to March, 1902. I have named it after my friend, J. G.<br />

Baker, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., late Keeper of the Herbarium<br />

of the Royal Gardens, Kew, author of the Handbooks<br />

of the Amaryllideæ, Irideæ, Bromeliaceæ, and of other<br />

works that have been of signal service to Botan<strong>is</strong>ts and<br />

Horticultural<strong>is</strong>ts.<br />

Descr.—Trunk about four feet high, stout, erect, bearing<br />

an elongated crown six feet in diameter, of very numerous,<br />

spreading and recurved leaves, and a very shortly peduncled,<br />

dense-flowered cylindrical raceme of nearly nine<br />

feet high. Leaves three feet long by five inches broad at<br />

the middle, narrowed towards the base, terminated by a<br />

spine an inch long, glaucous-green, with a quite entire,<br />

narrow, purple margin, coriaceous, slightly concave above,<br />

and convex beneath; young leaves erect, crowded round,<br />

ap r i l 1s T, 1903.

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