There are wild specimens in the Kew Herbarium from 
Trinidad, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Martinique, and St. 
Thomas, and it is described as growing on trees, and in 
fissures of rocks. 
Descr.—Leaves about ten in a rosette, firm, lorate, 
rounded, shortly cuspidate, about two feet long, two 
inches and a half wide; spines short, broad-based, black, 
about three lines apart. Scape floccose when young, glab- 
rescent in age; sheaths lanceolate, entire, or sparingly 
toothed, about an inch and three-quarters long; bracts 
lanceolate, membranous; panicle pinnately branched ; 
flowers numerous, sessile. Sepals white, ovate, bearing 
an awn nearly one line long. Petals ovate from an 
oblong base, yellow. Stamens much shorter than the 
petals; filaments inserted near the apex of the mucronate 
anthers, the three inner adnate to the petals. Ovary 
glabrous, subcylindric.—C. H. Wricur. 
Fig. 1, a flower; 2, petal; 3, stamen; 4, stamen showing the insertion of 
the filament; 5, style-arms; 6, inflorescence :—1l-5, enlarged; 6, one-third 
natural size. 
