Leaves in a dense rosette, ensiform, three or four feet long, 

 three or four inches broad at the middle, narrowed gra- 

 dually to the point and to an inch above the dilated base, 

 recurved, nearly smooth, and but little glaucous on the 

 upper surface, very glaucus and scabrous on the under 

 surface, with minutely denticulate edges. Peduncle stiffly 

 erect, about as long as the leaves. Inflorescence a lax 

 panicle ten or twelve feet long, with many long pendulous 

 compound branches ; pedicels short, aggregated, articulated 

 at the apex; bracts small, brown, membranous. Ovary 

 cylindrical, under an inch long. Expanded perianth two 

 inches in diameter, white; inner segments oblong; outer 

 linear-oblong, tinted with green outside. Stamens shorter 

 than the perianth ; filaments very strumose in the lower 

 bait ; anthers versatile. Pistil as long as the stamens ; 

 lower part of the style strumose and deeply trisulcate ; 

 upper part subulate. —.7. G. Baker. 



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