no species, either, with such densely flowered panicles. The 
plant is probably of considerable age, and has perhaps attained 
- its ordinary size. 
Drscr. Sfem-erect, eighteen inches high, three to four inches 
in diameter, unbranched, transversely marked with the scars of 
fallen foliage. Leaves nearly two feet long, spreading on all 
sides, numerous, twenty to twenty-four inches long, closely im- 
bricated on the trunk, lanceolate, firm and hard, coriaceous, sub- 
glaucous, contracted at the base, then dilated and gradually 
tapering to a rigid spinulose point, very concave in its whole 
length (canaliculato-concava), almost semicylindrical, asperous 
beneath, smooth above, the margins entire, with a subcar- 
tilaginous and red-brown line at the very edge of the younger 
leaves. Panicle terminal, a large compound raceme, each branch 
thickly clothed with large, sulphur-coloured, drooping, globose 
flowers. Folioles or sepals subconnivent, broad-ovate, scarcely 
acute, contracted at the very base. Stamens and pistil as in 
the genus. 
Fig. 1. Flowering plant,—much reduced. 2. Portion of a leaf and of a panicle, 
—nat, size. 3. Pistil. 4. Stamen :—magnified. 
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