nine to ten feet high, strict, rather stout, green, beset with 

 long, strict, subulate bracts, two to eight inches long. Flowers 

 in a very dense, elongate, strict, erect raceme, three to four 

 feet long, clustered in twos and threes on short, stout pedun- 

 cles, that are subtended by a reflexed subulate bract one and 

 a half to two inches long; each flower, with the stamens, 

 three inches long; pedicels very short; bracteoles minute, 

 subulate. Ovary cylindric, one inch long, glabrous, green. 

 Perianth tube very short ; lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, 

 about as long as the ovary, green. Stamens as long as the 

 ovary and perianth, erect. Filaments yellow with a red 

 tinge, strict. Anthers yellow, linear, two-thirds of an inch 

 long. Style slender, shorter than the stamens ; stigma small, 

 capitate. — J. J). H. 



Fig. 1. Reduced figure of the whole plaut. 2 and 3. Portions of the 

 leaf. 4. Ditto of the raceme: — both ofnat. size. 



