what tortuose, about two-feet long, lanceolate, pungently acumi- 
nate, pale-green, very smooth and even, spinulose at the margin : 
the spines or teeth falcate, sharp ; superior ones pointing towards 
the apex, inferior ones the reverse. Scape twelve to fourteen 
feet high, naked below but bracteated above, forming a long lax 
racemose panicle ; pedicels aggregated on short bracteated pe- 
duncles, drooping ; bracteas ovato-lanceolate, long-acuminate. Pe- 
rianth pale-yellowish-green ; the ¢wbe incorporated with the ob- 
tusely triangular ovary. The spread of the limb is nearly four 
inches ; three outer seyals narrower, three inner subcorolloid and 
a little waved. Filaments, as in the genus, singularly dilated 
below the middle, and the style has at its base three large erect 
lobes, characteristic of the genus Fourcroya. 
Fig. 1. Apex of a leaf,—nat. size. 2. Stamens. 3. Pistil. 4. Transverse 
section of ovary :—magnified. 
