eighteen feet high, and another also of great size, but not 
in flower, at the Casino of Monte Carlo, named D. junci- 
folium. The latter specimen was subsequently seen by 
Mr. Baker in a flowering state, with leaves three feet to 
_ six feet long, and scapes fifteen feet to twenty feet high. 
The origin of the specimen so long cultivated in the 
Succulent House of the Royal Gardens, Kew, is unknown. 
It is a female plant, of very slow growth, the stem being 
only eighteen inches high; the tuft of leaves is six feet in 
diameter, the scape eight feet high, and inflorescence two 
feet. 
Deser.—Trunk stout, cylindric. Leaves (in the Kew 
specimen) two feet long, exceedingly numerous, densely 
crowded in a globose head, the outer recurved, inner erect, 
rigid, tetragonous, flattened from the base to about the 
middle, narrowed, and equilateral from thence to the 
pungent tip, surfaces rough to the touch, margins rather 
rough. Scape very stout, clothed with short leaves, the lower 
of which are deflexed, the upper erect. Panicle of numerous, 
strict, erect racemes of imbricating small green flowers 
mixed with large white, spathaceous, deciduous bracts, six to 
eight inches long. Racemes about four inches long, shortly 
peduncled ; pedicels about half an inch long, jointed above 
the middle; bracteoles minute, cup-shaped, membranous, 
erose. Segments of wperianth broadly oblong, obtuse. 
Ovary compressed, crowned with three reniform stigmas. 
Fruit orbicular-oblong, trigonous, compressed, about one- 
third of an inch long, winged all round, tip notched with 
the stigmas in the sinus, one-seeded. Seed minute, ovoid, 
trigonous—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1, transverse section of leaf; 2, flowers and bracteole; 3, portion of 
perianth with stamens :—all enlarged; 4, reduced view of plant. 
