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JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1963 243<br />
292657 to 292683—Continued<br />
292674. AGAVE sp.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20089. Roadside 4 miles west of Rio Verde, road from San Luis<br />
Potosi. Elevation 3,200 feet. <strong>Plant</strong>s large, glaucous gray, maguey; leaves<br />
fluted; margins undulate; panicle to 30 feet high with 18 wide laterals in<br />
upper third; ovary and tepals green, rest pale yellow. Cultivated.<br />
292675. AGAVE sp.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20093. Roadside volcanic cliff, 55 miles southeast of San Luis<br />
Potosi, road to Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi. Elevation 3,500 feet. <strong>Plant</strong><br />
narrow leaved; rosettes forming one clone; leaves sprawling.<br />
292676. AGAVE sp.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20094. Roadside volcanic cliff, 55 miles southeast of San Luis<br />
Potosi, road to Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi. Elevation 3,500 feet. <strong>Plant</strong><br />
green; rosettes radial; leaves appressed, except terminal cone.<br />
292677. AGAVE sp.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20095. Limestone oak forest, Sierra de Manuel, southeast of<br />
Ciudad San Luis Potosi, road to Rio Verde, San Luis Potosi. Elevation<br />
5,000 feet. <strong>Plant</strong> stiff, erect; rosettes green, suckering; leaves narrow,<br />
falcate, ascending, curving, margin narrow, friable; teeth small, distal;<br />
spikes to 15 feet high; tepals pale yellow within; anthers yellow; filaments<br />
pale pinkish, rest pale waxy green.<br />
292678. AGAVE ASPERRIMA Jacobi<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20008. Sand hill with gravel 5 miles south of Zapata along<br />
Route 83, Tex. Rosettes medium large, glaucous gray, suckering; leaves<br />
few, thick at base; trunks big; panicles open with 10-12 wide laterals in<br />
upper half; ovary and tepals green to pale yellow, erect.<br />
292679. AGAVE sp.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20010. Route 83, 4 miles south of Rio Grande City, Starr County,<br />
Tex. Rosettes medium sized, green, suckering; leaves erect.<br />
292680. AGAVE sp.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20079. Limestone cliff, 22 miles northeast of Jacala, Route 85,<br />
Hidalgo. Elevation 4,250 feet. Rosettes occasionally clustered; leaves<br />
few; teeth mostly weak; flowers variable in size and color, green without,<br />
yellow to lavender and purple within.<br />
292681. AGAVE sp.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20076. Six miles east of Ciudad del Maiz, road to Antigua<br />
Morelos, San Luis Potosi. Elevation 3,750 feet. Rosettes medium size,<br />
suckering; leaves broad, pale green to light glaucous; teeth regular on<br />
crenate margins.<br />
292682. MANFREDA sp. Amaryllidaceae.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20077. Limestone outcrop, 8 miles southwest of Gomez Farias,<br />
Tamaulipas. Elevation 3,750 feet. <strong>Plant</strong>s polycarpic, green, forming open<br />
mounds; leaves soft, tender; teeth and leaf length variable; spikes tense or<br />
lax, to 3.5 meters tall; flowers green outside, yellow inside; capsules fleshy.<br />
292683. RUNYONIA sp. Amaryllidaceae.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 20011. In shade, near Falcon, east of Route 83, Zapata County,<br />
Texas. <strong>Plant</strong> small, brindle-leaved rosette; flowers open, white, turning<br />
purple.<br />
292684 and 292685.<br />
From Nigeria. Stolons and seeds collected by G. W. Burton, Georgia Coastal<br />
Plains Experiment Station, Tifton, Georgia. Received Aug. 27, 1963.<br />
292684. CYNODON sp. Poaceae.<br />
Col. <strong>No</strong>. 1. Shika Animal and Grassland Pasture Station, Shika.<br />
<strong>Plant</strong>s coarse, very tall, relatively disease free; rhizomes long. (Stolons).