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Agave vera-cruz, Mill. (A. bulbifera, Bonpl. A. Manguai, Desf. A. mexicana, Lam., which in part is Furcraea cubensis and the uses of which in large part pertain to A. atrovirens. A. vera-crucis. Haw., sometimes spelled verx-crucis. A. vera-crux, Mill.). Leaves nearly straight, 6-7 x 50 inches, glaucous, somewhat cross-banded, rather fleshy, concave; with short heavy gray spine and oblique rounded deltoid prickles somewhat raised on green prominences: inflorescence ample; flowers 2 3/4 inches; ovary 1 1/4-l 1/2 inches, segments 3/4-1 inch, tube 3/4 inch: caps, oblong, prominently stipitate, scarcely beaked. Mex.—The blue aloe, extensively planted and more or less established in Amoy, India, Mauritius and Peru, and, as A. mexicana, in Italy. It has been hybridized with A. sisalana.

Agave vera-cruz, Mill. (A. bulbifera, Bonpl. A. Manguai, Desf. A. mexicana, Lam., which in part is Furcraea cubensis and the uses of which in large part pertain to A. atrovirens. A. vera-crucis. Haw., sometimes spelled verx-crucis. A. vera-crux, Mill.). Lvs. nearly straight, 6-7 x 50 in., glaucous, somewhat cross-banded, rather fleshy, concave; with short heavy gray spine and oblique rounded deltoid prickles somewhat raised on green prominences: infl. ample; fls. 2 3/4 in.; ovary 1 1/4-l 1/2 in., segm. 3/4-1 in., tube 3/4 in.: caps, oblong, prominently stipitate, scarcely beaked. Mex. (7). G.C. II. 19, p. 149.—The blue aloe, extensively planted and more or less established in Amoy, India, Mauritius and Peru, and, as A. mexicana, in Italy. It has been hybridized with A. sisalana.

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