that ripe seeds of this Yucca were received in January, 
1882, from Ludwig Winter, of Bordighera. These would 
give the age of the specimen at first flowering as nine 
years. It flowered a second time in the autumn or winter 
of 1896, but not since, though it is alive and well. 
Descr.—Stoloniferous. Stem very short and prostrate, 
or none. Leaves most densely crowded, in an almost 
globose mass, two to three feet in diameter, spreading on 
all sides, linear-subulate, ten to twenty inches long, sud- 
denly tapering from a base about half an inch broad to a 
trigonous pungent tip, rigid, straight, or curved, glaucous- 
green, striate, dorsally keeled, margins minutely serrulate. 
Scape four to twelve feet high, very stout, erect, loosely 
covered above, densely below, with erect or recurved 
foliaceous bracts, six to nine inches long. Panicle erect, 
cylindric, dense-flowered, two to four inches in diameter, 
quite glabrous; branches many-flowered; floral bracts 
small. Flowers globose, two to two and a half inches in 
diameter, pendulous from stout, decurved pedicels, an inch 
and a half long; perianth-segments incurved, concave, 
acute, greenish-white, margined with dull purple, outer 
broadly oblong-lanceolate, inner narrower. Stamens about 
half as long as the perianth-segments ; filaments stout, 
thickened in the middle, quite smooth ; anthers didymous. 
Ovary oblong, laterally six-lobed ; style very short, stigma 
three-lobed. Capsule two and a half inches long, broadly 
oblong, trigonous —J. D, H. 
de r 1, Stamen; 2, ovary; 3, capsule :—All enlarged; 4, reduced view of 
