lanceolate, a foot and a half long, five or six inches broad 
near the base, narrowed gradually to the pungent point, 
the colour a pale dull glaucous-green without any spots, 
the centre half an inch in thickness, the margins with close 
spreading deltoid spines with horny reddish-brown tips. 
Inflorescence as long as the leaves, a panicle with six or 
eight ascending branches; peduncle much flattened,glaucous, 
half a foot long; racemes oblong, dense, three or four 
inches long; pedicels about half an inch long, articulated 
at the tip; bracts lanceolate, rather shorter than the 
pedicels. Perianth lemon-yellow, cylindrical, an inch long; 
tube oblong, half as long as the lanceolate segments. 
Stamens finally reaching to the tip of the perianth-seg- 
ments, or a little exserted; anthers minute, round-oblong ; 
pollen yellow. Ovary oblong, yellow; style straight, 
reaching finally to the tip of the perianth-segments.— 
J.G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, A flower cut open: 2 isti i i 
; 2,anthers; 3 ; 4, hor ae 
all more or less pidispae. Se el at arte ee 
