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TAB. 6511.
AGAVE HóRRIDA.
Native of Mexico.
Nat. Ord. AMARTLLIDACEJB.•Sub-order AGAVE.E.
Genus AGAVE, Linn. ; {Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 818.)
AGAVE (Litta?a) hórrida ; acaulis, foins 30-40 dense rosulatis ensiformibus sub-
pedalibus ápice apiña pungente corneo magna armatis margine lato corneo
gríseo cinctis aculéis magnis distantibus insequalibus armato, pedúnculo folüs
3-4-plo superante, bracteis vacuís subulatis squarrosis, floribus in paniculam
subspicatam densam cylindrical» aggregatis geminis breviter pedunculatis et
pedicellatis, bracteis parvis linearibus, ovario cylindrico-trigono, tubo brevi late
infundibulari, segmentis oblongis purpureo-viridibus, staminibus ad tubifaucem
insertis segmentis 2-3-plo longioribus, stylo demum filamentis •quilongo.
A. hórrida, Lemaire ; Jacobi Monog. pp. 43 and 207 ; Nachtrage, p. 15 ; K. Koch
in Wochenschrift, vol. xii. p. 177 ; Baker in Gard. Chron. n. s, vol. vii.
(1877), p. 621, fig. 99.
A. Regeliana and Desmetiana, Hort, non Jacobi.
This is one of the best known of the smaller Agaves with
a distinct continuous horny border to the leaf. It was
introduced from Mexico by Verschaffelt in 1862, and is now
to be found in all the more complete collections, but usually
under the name either of Begeliana or Desmetiana, both of
which rightfully belong to species of another section. I
am not aware that there is any record of its having flowered.
Our drawing was made from a plant in the collection so
liberally lent to Kew by J. T. Peacock, Esq., of Hammer-
smith, which has been on exhibition for a considerable time
in the south wing of the Temperate House, where it flowered
in the spring of this present year. The flowers are notably
proterandrous, the style not reaching its full length, nor
the stigma becoming papilldse, till long after the anthers of
the same flower are withered. I believe that A. triangu lar is,
grandidentata, and Maigrdiana of Jacobi, and A. O il he//i
of Haage and Schmidt, will all prove to be forms of tins
species.
AUGUST 1ST, 1880.