subulate blackish-brown end-spine 2}~3 in. long, decurrent 
on the margins for 4-8 in.; the margins lower down 
bordered with spines and slightly or hardly repand between 
the spines; those lowest down rather small and close set, 
3 lin. long and 8 lin. apart, deltoid uncinate, the next above 
larger, and 3-lin. apart; the upper spines about the middle 
of the leaf 2 in. apart, and sometimes with one or two 
smaller ones between them, deltoid-uncinate, recurved or 
spreading from a wide fleshy base, above the middle still 
larger, about ? in. long, and from a more repand margin ; 
those near the tip standing as far apart, but again smaller; 
all blackish brown; upper leaves in a flowering rosette 
shorter and narrower, the highest linear-lanceolate with a 
straight margin and sometimes with a continuous horny 
border ; both surfaces rough and whitish, but irregularly 
marked with small green patches or stripes, especially 
underneath. Inflorescence almost 40 ft. high; scape stout, 
about 9 ft. long and 11 in. thick, with several empty bracts, 
the lowest leafy, the upper scaly, triangular with a subulate 
tip; panicle oblong or cylindric-ovate, about 10 ft. across ; 
branches spreading, the lowest shortest, with small deltoid 
basal bracts, 2-3 times 3-furcate upwards, many-flowered ; 
pedicels 5-10 lin. long; bracts very small, deltoid ; flowers 
over 4 in. (including the style over 7 in.) long. Perianth- 
segments united below in a globose or wide tunnel-shaped 
tube; above free, linear, obtuse, soon withering, brightish 
yellow; the outer flat, 1} in. gong, the inner narrower, 
keeled without and channelled within. Stamens attached 
near the middle of the tube; filaments stout, yellowish, 
3 in. long; anthers sulphur yellow, 14 in. long. Ovary 
somewhat clavate, 3(-6)-anglel, smooth, Lright green, 
2 in. long, narrowed at the apex; style very stout, 4} in. 
long; stigma thickened, obscurely 3-lobed. 
Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, stigma; 4, whole plant, showing habit :— 
1-3 enlarged, 4 much reduced. 
