Tas. 7650. 
YUCCA nama. 
Native of the South-Western United States. 
Nat. Ord. Littacra2.—Tribe Dracayea, 
Genus Yucca, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 778.) 
Yucca elata; caule fruticoso interdum furcato, foliis dense rosulatis lineari- 
bus strictis pallide viridibus pungentibus margine copiose filiferis, 
pedunculo foliis subduplo longiore, racemis multis laxis in paniculam 
densam rhomboideam dispositis, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis scariosis pedi- 
cellis longioribus, perianthio amplo albo extus leviter viride tincto, 
staminibus perianthio subtriplo brevioribus filamentis pubescentibus, 
stylo brevi columnari pubescente, fructa magno oblongo coriaceo tarde 
dehiscente, seminibus discoideis nigris. 
Y. elata, Engelm. in Coult. Bot. Gaz. vol. vii. (1882) p.17; Collected Works, 
. 299. Sergeant in Garden & Forest, 1889, p. 568, fig. 146. Trelease in 
eport Missouri Gard. 1893, p. 201, tab. 10, 15, 22. 
Y. angustifolia var. elata, Engelm. Notes on Yucca, p. 50. S, Wats. in Proc. 
Amer. Acad. vol. xiv, p. 253. 
Y. constricta, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xviii. p. 229, non Buckley. 
This shrubby Yucca is peculiar to the desert region of 
Arizona and the neighbouring states west of the goaer | 
Mountains. In the wild state the stem reaches a lengt 
of ten or twelve feet. In leaf and flower it closel 
resembles Y. angustifolia, Pursh (Bot. Mag. tab. 2236), 
but that is more hardy, and never has a long stem. The 
peduncle of the present plant is longer, and the inflores-— 
_ cence much more compound. It was first discovered by | 
the botanists of the Mexican boundary survey more than 
thirty years ago, but has only lately been introduced into 
cultivation. The plant in the Royal Gardens, Kew, from 
which the present drawing was made, is growing in the 
large Temperate House, and flowered for the first time in- 
Yuccas, in 1893, from Mr. J. N. Gilerease, of Sierra 
Blanca, Texas. + ee 
forked at the top, covered down to the base with reflexed : 
withered leaves. Leaves densely rosulate, stiffly erect 
Aprit 1st, 1899, a 
the summer of 1896. It was purchased, along with other 
Descr.—Trunk, of the Kew plant, about a yard Jong, - 
