Tas. 5041. 
DASYLIRIUM Guavucopuyiivum. 
Glaucous-leaved Dasylirium. 
Nat. Ord. AsPARAGINE#.—Dria@cta HEXANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5030.) 
DasYLirtuM glaucophyllum ; caulescens, foliis longissimis e lata basi lineari- 
subulatis insigniter glaucis apicibus integris (fasciculo fibrarum emarcidarum 
non terminatis) planiusculis striatis marginatis rigide serrulatis spinosisque, 
spinis subulatis sursum curvatis, spica longissima composita, spiculis seu 
racemis cylindricis copiosis dense compactis multifloris, bracteis e lata basi 
subulatis, floribus dense imbricatis masculorum filamentis longe exsertis. 
Plants of this species of Dasyliriwm were received at the Royal 
Gardens of Kew ‘at the same time with the D. acrotrichum, and 
from the same source, namely, from Mr. Repper, of Real del 
Monte; and the same unusually warm summer which encouraged 
the blossoming of that species, no doubt had its influence on 
this, and it came to perfection at the same time. The flow- 
ering stem was about eleven feet high; probably, as the plants 
increase in size, the flower-stem will also be larger. I regret that 
I cannot find this anywhere described, yet it has well-marked 
characters in the very glaucous hue of the more strict and rigid 
(not gracefully drooping) leaves, and in the integrity of the apices 
of the leaves, which do not break out in the tufts or pencils of 
strong fibres as they do in D. acrotrichum. a 
_Duscr. The stem of our plant, though of an arborescent cha- 
racter, is not more than a foot high, thicker than a mans arm, 
scarred with the marks of fallen leaves, and crowned at the top” 
with a tuft of beautiful foliage. Zeaves three feet and more long, 
spreading in all directions, but not recurved, rigid, strict, from 
a broad base linear-subulate, tapering gradually into a fine entire 
point, that is, it does not break up at the apex into a pencil or — 
of rigid tough fibres; striated, margined with a narrow — 
cartilaginous edge, which is minutely serrated, and rather dis- — 
tantly beset with small, subulate, falcate, very sharp spoes. 
MARCH 1sT, 1858, 
