. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ember 29, 1877.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 807 THE GENUS AGAVE. {Concluded from p. 781.) Series IV. — Carnoso-herbace.^. — Leavesalmost herbaceous in texture, dying down annually,often spotted with brown, the tip not at all pungent, themargin entire, or at most minutely serrulate. Flowersfew, solitary, laxly spicato-racemose — Manfreda^Salisb. These form a most distinct group, worthy, I think, Notes, p. 13 ; Fenzi in Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 1194,t. 273.—Acaulescent. Leaves 12—20 in a rosette, lan-ceola
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. ember 29, 1877.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 807 THE GENUS AGAVE. {Concluded from p. 781.) Series IV. — Carnoso-herbace.^. — Leavesalmost herbaceous in texture, dying down annually,often spotted with brown, the tip not at all pungent, themargin entire, or at most minutely serrulate. Flowersfew, solitary, laxly spicato-racemose — Manfreda^Salisb. These form a most distinct group, worthy, I think, Notes, p. 13 ; Fenzi in Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 1194,t. 273.—Acaulescent. Leaves 12—20 in a rosette, lan-ceolate, spreading-, J —i foot long, %~i inch broadbelow the middle, narrowed slightly downwards, glau-cous green, deeply channelled, mottled on both sideswith irregular brownish blotches, the edges distinctlyserrulate. Scape i|—3 feet long below the inflorescence,furnished with a few lanceolate bract-leaves. Flowersin a lax subspicate raceme \—i foo tlong ; pedicels veryshort; bracts small, lanceolate, acuminate. Perianthpurplish-green, i\—2. inches long ; ovary oblong, under. Fig. 159,—cotyledon (echeveria) stolonifera. (see p. S05), of separation from Agave as a sub-genus, in whichhabit and leaf-character and short life-duration runparallel with a well-marked distinctive type of inflor-escence. The best characters by which to discri-minate the species appear to be found in the relativelength of the genitalia, perianth-segments andperianth-tube, and in the shape of the latter. * Filaments not longer than the perianth-segments. 103. A. {Manfreda) macuiata, Kegel, Ind. Sem. ,, 1856, p. 16; Gartenflora, 1857, p. 158 ; i8t;8,p. 314 ; Engelm. in Torrey, Bot, Mex, Round., p. 214 ;Jacobi, Monogr., p. 171 ; A. maculosa, Hook, in , t. 5122 (1859); Jacobi, Monogr,, p, 170 ; Engelm., \ inch long ; tube usually ^—i inch long, cylindrical inthe lower half; segments linear-oblong, ^—^ inch inserted at the throat of the tube, not longerth
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