Tas. 5205, 
BESCHORNERIA yuccorpss. 
Yucca-leaved Beschorneria. 
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BESCHORNERIA yuccoides ; foliis pedalibus sesquipedalibusque lanceolatis inferne 
angustatis basi dilatato-vaginatis apice acuminatissimis, scapo 3—4-pedali 
gracili bracteato racemoso-paniculato corallino, ramis gracillimis elongatis 
floribusque pendentibus, bracteis roseis, sepalis clausis rectis. 
BEscHORNERIA yuccoides. Hortul. 
Some years ago Lord Ilchester distributed seeds of a Beschor- 
neria, which was considered to be different from the only de- 
scribed one, B. tubiflora (see our Tab. 4642), and which we have 
since understood bears the name of B. yuccoides in gardens. A 
plant of this was in perfection in the succulent-house of our 
friend Mr. Wilson Saunders at the same time with the Yucca — 
canaliculata, given in the present number. The accompanying — 
figure will show better than words can do how very different 
this is from B. tubifora. It is indeed a most striking plant, 
distinguished by the long, slender, coral-like scape and panicle, 
with its gracefully slender drooping branches, of the same colour, 
bearing racemes of large pendent green flowers, in shape not 
much unlike those of some long-flowered Fuchsia, but of a dark 
yellow-green colour, tinged with red. It is a highly ornamental 
plant, and continues a long time in blossom. It requires a cool 
greenhouse, and is probably a native of Mexico. 
Drscr. Leaves radical (but the falling away of the older ones 
at length causes an imperfect stem to appear, thick and short), a 
foot to a foot and a half long, subcoriaceous, glaucous-green, 
lanceolate, narrowed below the middle, dilated at the very base, 
the apex pungently and narrow-acuminated, asperous beneath 
and at the margin. Scape three to four feet long, the upper half 
forming a panicle of slender drooping (as it were from the weight 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1860. 
