ovate or deltoid fleshy cushion of the leaf margin, $—2 in. 
distant and 7-8 lin. long, separated by a roundish or acute 
sinus; the lower and higher marginal spines gradually 
smaller and the edge not repand between them. Injlores- 
cence about 12 ft. high; scape relatively slender, about 6 ft. 
long, green, smooth, with several deltoid acuminate scarious 
empty bracts, 24-6 in. long, and a few leaf-like bracts at its 
base; panicle oblong-cylindric, about 6 ft. long and 22 in. 
broad, with about twenty-six spreading branches, the longest 
10 in. long; flowers in dense clusters, bright yellow, with a 
somewhat unpleasant smell, rather small, 14 in. (including 
the style 24 in.) long. Pedicels short, bracts minute, soon 
drying. Perranth-segments united at their base into a short 
tube, erect, campanulate, fleshy, bright yellow, soon wither- 
ing at the top; the outer ones ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
8-9 lin. long and 3 lin. broad, convex on the back and 
broadly channelled inside, the interior shorter, more obtuse 
and broader, with a fleshy keel at the back and a deep 
furrow inside. Stamens yellow, filaments inserted at the 
base of the tube, erect, unequal, 15-17 lin. long; anthers 
yellow, 8 lin. long. Ovary bright and glossy green, 
subtrigonous or subcylindric, tapering at both ends and 
below the tube shortly 6-furrowed, 10-11 lin. Jong and 
24-3 lin. broad; style ultimately over 1} in. long, yellow, 
somewhat thickened at the obscurely 3-lobed stigma. 
r; 3, stigma; 4, sketch of entire 
4, which ts much reduced. 
Fig. 1, spine from leaf-margin; 2, anthe 
plant, from photographs :—all enlarged eacept 
