drawn is very remarkable. The trunk was sent to Kew in 

 October, 1888, by Mr. C. G-. Pringle, from Monterey, 

 through Professor Sargent. When it arrived at Kew it 

 appeared to be quite dead, and the trunk was consequently 

 placed in the Museum of Economic Botany. After re- 

 maining there two years it put out rudimentary leaves and 

 an inflorescence, and on being transferred to the Temperate 

 House these were fully developed in September, 1890. 

 The leaves are shorter than in the wild type and the 

 panicle is erect and less dense. 



Desce. Trunk finally arborescent and copiously t branched; 

 in our plant simple, cylindrical, fifteen feet long. Leaves 

 densely rosulate, ensiform, thinner and smaller than in 

 Y. baccata, a foot or a foot and a half long, with copious 

 fine recurving threads splitting off from the margin. 

 Panicle in our plant erect, but in the fully-developed wild 

 plant drooping, four or six feet long by eighteen or twenty 

 inches broad, very dense ; pedicels articulated at the apex ; 

 bracts large, ovate, scariose. Perianth white, campanulate, 

 an inch or an inch and a half long ; segments ovate or 

 oblong, acute, the three outer much narrower than the 

 three inner. Stamens about a third as long as the perianth ; 

 filaments clavate, arcuate, pubescent; anthers small, 

 oblong. Pistil overtopping the anthers. Fruit oblong, 

 baccate, two inches or more long, pendulous, often con- 

 stricted on the side towards the stem. Seeds black, often 

 more than a line in thickness.— J". G. Baler. 



Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, stamens surrounding the pistil ; 3, pistil :— all enlarged. 



