perianth is described in that work as sexfid at the apex 
only, I have queried that citation. ae 
There is no record of the source whence the specimen — 
now in the Succulent House in the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
was procured. It has been there for many years, together 
with var. Peacockiu, Baker (A. elegans, Todaro, Hort. Bot. 
Panorm. vol. li. p. 25, t. 29), of which the leaves are 
eighteen to twenty-one inches long, and five to six broad 
near the base, and the flowers bright yellow ; its stem is 
more slender, five feet high. = 
Descr.—Stem (of the specimen figured) six feet high, 
three inches in diameter, cylindric, faintly marked with 
transverse scars. Leaves about twenty, rosulate at the 
top of the stem, erect, spreading, or deflexed, two to three 
feet long, ensiform, gradually narrowed into a cylindric 
obtuse brown tip, nearly an inch long, four to five inches 
broad at the base, with the thickness of about half an inch, 
bright green, with oblong, pale, narrow blotches on the 
upper surface towards the base; marginal teeth about two- 
thirds of an inch apart, deltoid, incurved, green, tips 
cartilaginous, brown. Peduncles two or more, rather 
shorter than the leaves, erect, branched; branches loosely 
covered with subulate, pale, membranous bracts about a 
fourth of an inch long. aceme up to six inches long, 
and three in diameter, very dense-fld., cylindric, bracts 
like those on the peduncle, but rather longer ; pedicels 
longer than the bracts, erect, arching at the tip. lowers 
pendulous, about an inch long, narrowly campanulate, 
slightly constricted above the short, entire tube, pale 
yellow (buds cinnabar-red below the middie, greenish- 
yellow above it); segments twice as long as the tube, 
narrowly oblong; tips recurved, golden-yellow within. 
Stamens and style exserted; anthers ochraceous, shortly 
oblong.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, pistil:—Al/ enlarged. 
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