ig et a 8 
80 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
length; capsules oblong, 35 mm. long, shortly stipitate, 
cuspidate. Nectar abundant, descending in a shower when 
scape is shaken (Parish).— Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii. 310, 
Collected Writings, 309; Terr. Monogr. 49; Baker, 
Amaryllideae, 178.—From Palm Springs, California, along 
the eastern slope of the San Jacinto Mountains into Lower 
California, at altitudes of from 2,500 to 3,000 feet.—Plates 
33 and 34. 
Specimens examined :— From Emory’s Expedition, Nov. 
29th, 1846. Torrey Herb.; Dr. Palmer, East of San 
Felipe, 1875; Geo. N. Hitchcock, East of San Felipe, 
1875; G.R. Vasey, Mountain Springs, 1880; S. B. Parish, 
Mountain Springs, 1880; Parish Brothers, San Felipe, 
1882. 
Very abundant where found. Miss Johnson has drawn 
the plate figured, from the original sketch made by Mr. 
Stanley on the Emory Expedition, Nov. 29th, 1846. The 
sketch is deposited in the Torrey Herbarium, Columbia 
College, and was kindly loaned by Dr. Britton, who also 
gives permission to have it reproduced here. 
Lieut. Emory writes* on his discovery of this plant, Nov. 
29, 1846: —** We rode for miles through thickets of the 
centennial plant, and found one in fullbloom. The sharp 
thorns terminating every leaf, were a great annoyance to 
our dismounted and weary men, whose legs were now almost 
bare. A number of these plants were cut by the soldiers, 
and the body of them used for food.” 
= = Leaves closely imbricated, and somewhat appressed; mature plant 
usually globose. 
A. appLANATA Lemaire.— Leaves crowded upon a short 
axis, making a contracted, very symmetrical rosette, which 
may bear over a hundred leaves, and have a height nearly 
equal to the diameter; younger leaves ascending, more 
or less acute or acuminate, or with their upper margins 
* Notes on a Military Reconnoissance. Washington (1848). 104. 
