thick, ensiform, long acuminate, terminated by a pungent 
chestnut-brown spine, obscurely keeled at the back, which is 
scabrid; margin subundulate with incurved chestnut-coloured 
stout spines, olive-green on both surfaces, but not glaucous. 
Scape with the panicle ten feet high, green, with few 
subulate bracts. Panicle elongate, slender, narrow, erect, 
pubescent ; branches a foot long, more erect than spreading, 
simple, strict. FYowers all drooping, usually in pairs ; pedicels 
very short, and bracts minute. Ovary cylindric, pubescent, 
nearly an inch long, green. Perianth two to two and a half 
inches in diameter, pale green; segments narrow-oblong, 
obtuse, obtusely keeled down the centre. Filaments subu- 
late, with broadly deltoid bases; anthers short, yellow. 
Style subulate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Entire plant, reduced ; 2, leaf; 3, branch of panicle and flowers :— 
both of the natural size. 
