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Tas. 7662. 
YUCCA Wurpptet. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. Linracra.—Tribe Draca|nes. 
Genus Yucca, Dill.; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 778.) 
Yucca (Hesperoyucca) Whipplet; caule brevissimo ahaa ot stolonifero, 
foliis numerosissimis densissime confertis patentibus lineari-subulatis 
falcatis v. strictis rigidis 10-20 poll. longis a basi 4 poll. lata sensim 
angustatis glaucis striatis dorso carinatis, apicem trigonum pungen- 
tem versus concavis, marginibus serrulato-asperis, scapo 4-12-pedali 
robusto stricto, bracteis 6-9 poll. longis e basi lata foliaceis recurvis 
inferioribus confertis foliiformibus, supremis ad basin panicule latioribus, 
panicula cylindracea densiflora, perianthii 2-4 poll. diam. subglobosi seg- 
mentis incurvis albo-virescentibus apices versus rubro-purpureo margina- 
tis exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis interioribus multolatioribus, 
filamentis erectis sursum incrassatis levibus, antheris didymis, ovario 
oblongo, stylo brevi, stigmate crasso trilobo, capsula globoso-ovoidea 1-2 
poll. longa, erecta, obtusa, loculicide 3-valvi, valvis integris, seminibus 
parvis valde compressis levibus anguste marginatis. 
Y. Whipplei, Torr. in Bot. Mex, Bound. p. 222 (textu). Bot. Bxped. Ives, p. 29. 
Bot. Works Engelmann, pp. 277, 296, 297, 298, 307. Gard. Chron. 1876, 
vol. ii. p. 197, fig. 42. S. Wats. in. Bot. Calif. vol. ii p. 164, e¢ in Proc. 
Amer. Acad. vol. xiv. p. 254. Baker, Rivist. Yucchi, Beaucarn. e Dasylir. 
in Bull. R. Soc. Tosc. di Ortic. 1881-2, p. 23. The Cactus Journal, 
June, 1899, p. 73 cum ic. 
Y. graminifolia, Wood in Proc. Acad. Sc. Philadelph. 1868, p. 167. 
Y. aloifolia, Torr. Pacific R. Rep. vol. iv. p. 147. 
PAgave californica, Hort. Kew. ex Jacobi, Agave, App. p. 117. Lemaire, Iii. 
Hortic. 1863, sub tab, 372. : 
Yucca Whipplei is a native of rocky mountains in 
California, from San Bernardino to Monterey, extending 
thence eastwards to N.W. Arizona. It is a very stately 
species, attaining twice the height of an ordinary man, 
with copious bright green foliage, a stout, bracteate - 
scape, and a noble panicle of large, sub-globose flowers. 
The figure here given was drawn by Lady Thiselton-Dyer, 
during a visit to the Commendatore Hanbury, Palazzo 
Orengo, Ventimiglia, in April, 1891, when the plant was 
flowering for the first time in that gentleman’s magnificent 
garden. From a record, preserved at the Palazzo, and 
communicated to me by Commendatore Hanbury, it appears 
JuLy Ist, 1899. 
