Handbook of the Amaryllideae, including the Alstroemerieae and agaveae / by J.G. Baker.
- John Gilbert Baker
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Handbook of the Amaryllideae, including the Alstroemerieae and agaveae / by J.G. Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![minutely serrulate. Peduncle 3-4 ft. long, with numerous subulate recurved bract-leaves 4-G in. long; flowers in a dense spike about 2 ft. long. Flower about an inch long ; tube very short; segments oblong, in. long. Stamens 2 in. long. Capsule oblong, £ in. long. Ilab. Northern Mexico, near Monterey. Introduced by Dr. Palmer to the Cambiidge (Harvard) Botanic Garden, where it flowered in 1881. Habit of A. yucccefolia. Group 11.—Attenuate. 11G. A. (Littaa) Elemeetiana Jacobi, Monogr. 178,313; Baker in Saund. lief. Bot. t. 1G3 ; Gard. Cliron. 187G, ii. fig. 145.— Acaulescent. Leaves 20-25 in a rosette, oblanceolate-oblomr. 11—2 ft. long, 4^-G in. broad above the middle, narrowed to 3-4 in. above the base, slightly glaucous, the face fiat above the middle, the tip not at all pungent, the margin pale and quite entire. Peduncle, including the dense 3-4 ft. spike, 12-13 ft. long. Flowers l.f-1^ ft. long; tube scarcely any; segments greenish yellow, oblong, ^ in. long. Stamens 2 in. long. Hab. Mexico, introduced about 18G4 and named by Jacobi after his friend M. de Jonge Van Elemeet, whose fine collection was dispersed in 1878. It was first flowered by Mr. Wilson Saunders at ltd gate in 1807. It flowered at Kew in 1877 and 1883. 117. A. (Lithca) attenuata Salmdyck, Hort. Dyck. 303 ; Rev. Hort. 1875, 149, figs. 31-32. A. r/I.mieescens Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5333; Gard. Cliron. 1887 ii. 2iu, fig. 55. A. spectabilis Hort. Trunk reaching a length of 4-5 ft. below the rosette of leaves. Leaves 10-20 in a dense spreading rosette, oblong, 2-2.V ft. long, 8-9 in. broad above the middle, narrowed to 21—3 in. above the base, persistently glaucous, the face flat, the tip not at all pungent, the edge pale and quite entire. Peduncle twice as long as the leaves ; bract-leaves adpressed, lanceolate. Spike dense, cernuous, G-8 ft. long. Flower 2 in. long ; segments greenish-yellow, oblong, longer than the funnel-shaped tube. Stamens under 2 in. long. Hab. Mexico, introduced into cultivation about 1834. It has flowered several times at Kew, beginning with 18(51, and was figured lately in the ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle ’ from a plant that bloomed with Dr. Henriques at Coimbra. Group 12.—Yi vip aim?. 118. A. pugioniformis Zuccar. in Nova Acta xvi. 2, G7G.— Acaulescent. Leaves linear, 1^-2 ft. long, G-8 lines broad, glaucescent, narrowed gradually to a firm dark brown end-spine in. long, slightly concave on the face, the teeth small, distant, deltoid-cuspidate, dark brown, straight or uncinate. Inflorescence unknown. Hab. Mexico, introduced about 1830. I have never seen this species. 119. A. serrulata Karw. in Otto Gartenzeit. 1842, 51.— Acaulescent. Leaves ensifonn, 2-21 ft. long, an inch broad at the middle, narrowed to :] in. above the base, glaucescent, the face o](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28122379_0209.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
