Regel casually mentions that it was also known in gardens 
under the name of Y. elephantipes, on account of the stem 
being thickened at the base. Consequent on this identifica- 
tion, Trelease (Missouri Bot. Gard. Ann. ep. 1902, p. 94, 
tt. 51, 82, & 84, f° 7) adopts the last name for the species, 
a course which we do not feel justified in following. He 
may be right, but ‘even if he is, it seems undesirable to 
take up a name that has no more claim than some of the 
other synonyms cited above. As to the swollen base of 
the stem, that may be an inconstant character. The 
figure in the “ Refugium Botanicum ” represents a perfectly 
cylindrical stem, and the tree here described has a tapering 
stem, without any bulging at the base. On the other 
hand, a Yucca growing in the Cambridge Botanic Garden 
figured in the ‘* Gardeners’ Chronicle ” (series 3, vol. XXill. 
1895, ':p. 524, f. 93) as Y. guatemalensis had a stem with 
a swollen. base. . At our request, Mr. Lynch has sent us a 
leaf of the Cambridge plant, which has all the charac- 
teristics of Y. guatemalensis. : 
Descr.—A tree about forty feet high. Trunk not 
Swollen at the base, about six feet in girth close to the — 
ground; about five feet at one foot from the ground, and 
about two feet at six feet from the ground, densely — 
branched at the very top only, Leaves crowded, per- 
sistent long after withering, largest about four feet long, 
stem-clasping base five inches broad, narrowed imme- _ 
diately above the attachment, two inches and a quarter 
broad at six inches from’ the base, about: four inches 
broad -at two feet and a quarter from the base, 
deeply concavo-convex, margin very obscurely toothed 
throughout, tip scarcely spiny. Panicle densely branched, — 
almost sessile, three to 
than the pedicels. Flowers white, or slightly tinged 
with yellow, about three inches across. Perianth cam- a 
panulate ; segments lanceolate, about two inches long, — 
rather obtuse, three ‘outer somewhat narrower than _ 
the inner. Stamens shorter than the pistil; filaments — 
club-shaped, puberulous. Ovary glabrous; style very — 
short. Fruit a berry, not seen by us.—W. Bortine — 
HeEmMstey. 
Fig. 1, portion of the edge of leaf; 2 and 3, stamens :—all enlarged; - 
~4, whole plant: about one-fiftieth of the natural size. te 
four feet long; bracts shorter 
