302 DRACAENACEAE 
a loculicidal capsule or sometimes baceate.—F our or five genera and 180 
species, natives of the Old World. 
1. ALOE L. orsa or partly shrubby or arborescent e with 
simple or branched eaudie Leaves succulent, often crowded, sometimes ina 
tiehous: blades entire or c cie . Flower-stalk eae in a den 
me, the flowers mostly oed Perianth mostly red or yellow. aum 
and petals partially united. Filaments free: anthers much shorter than the 
filaments. vules numero in pes 
ovary-eavity. Capsule un elongate. 
—About 75 species, mostly natives of 
Africa.— ALOES. 
1. A. a L. Leaves clustered at the 
base M p? fowering stem and ulti- 
mately raised with the oie sessile; 
blades lanceolate, sometimes narrowly 
SO, ong, glaucous, curved, the 
mou Enc mostly 1-1.5 em. apart: 
flowering stem with broad scale 
trict: flowers Wi ce ng, imbricately 
crowded: Amm 7-33 mm. 
ealyx-lobes and i lobes broadly 
lin nag = linear-lanceolate, obtuse, longer 
than the tube.—(BITTER-ALOE ARBADOES-ALOE. BAMBOO.)— Sandy fields M 
oe A Florida Keys and S Tex. Nat. of i region.—( JF. I.)—Coloni 
of this succulent are very persistent on account of the plant’s great vitality. 
Its abundance on one of the Florida Keys has led to the naming of the island 
Bamboo Key. Used in medicine. 
Famity 8. DRACAENACHAE — Yucca FAMILY 
Shrubby plants or trees, with woody, ~ copiously leafy, 
caudices. io alternate: blade es narrow, firm or rigid, sometimes filif- 
erous on the margins. Flowers in racemes or siue. terminating scape- 
like stems. Calyx of 3 generally white or greenish sepals. Corolla of 3 
petals nearly EA to the sepals. Androecium of 6 stamens. Gynoecium 
superior, o nited carpels. Style stout, sometimes obsolete during an- 
baccate——Four genera and about 50 species, most abundant in Mex. and 
Cent. Am. 
Anthers sagittate: ovary elongate: capsule not 3-winged: seeds flat- 
tened, 
many in pde cavity of the capsule. 1. YUCCA. 
eee cordate: ov Bde lar: capsule 3- winged: seeds thick, soli- 
r few in She ity. 2. NOLINA. 
1. YUCCA [Rupp.] L. Caudex commonly leafy throughout. Flowers 
perfect, relatively large, in panicles or racemes. Sepals and petals several- 
veined, deciduous. Ovules numerous. Capsule dehiscent, or baccate. iiS 
black.—About 18 aia natives of North America.—BEAR-GRASSES. ADAM 
NEEDLES. YUCCA 
