to be conspecific with the A. inequidens of Dr. Karl Koch, 
described from flowerless specimens in the Berlin Botanic 
— Garden in 1860. 
Dusor. Acaulescent. Leaves thirty or forty in a rosette, 
lanceolate, firm in texture for the genus, four or five feet 
long, six to nine inches broad at the middle, green with 
only a slight glaucous tinge in a young stage, narrowed 
gradually to a pungent brown end-spine above an inch long, 
which is decurrent along the edges as a narrow entire 
brown horny line, for four or six inches, a quarter of an 
inch thick in the middle, three or four inches thick at the 
base, the marginal prickles deltoid-cuspidate, dark brown, 
an eighth or a six of an inch long. Inflorescence thirty feet 
long, the peduncle four or five inches thick at the base, 
furnished with numerous lanceolate squarrose bract-leaves. 
Panicle rhomboid, four or five feet long by a couple of feet 
in diameter; flowers arranged in dense corymbs at the end 
of the spreading or ascending branches; pedicels reaching 
half an inch in length; bracteoles lanceolate, scariose. 
Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, green, an inch and a half long ; 
perianth-tube very short; segments lanceolate, pale yellow, 
as long as the ovary. Filaments twice as long as the 
perianth-segments; anthers linear, under an inch long. 
Style not developed till after the anthers, finally as long as 
the filaments.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, Flower, natural size; 2, anther, enlarged ; 3, vertical section of developed 
ovary, natural size. 
