32 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
In April, 1900, while passing a day in San Antonio, 
Texas, I observed a Hesperaloe planted in one of the plazas 
of that city, which in its long arching concave filiferous 
leaves, oblong Aloe-red flowers with white styles pro- 
truding for a distance equal to one-third or one-half the 
length of the perianth, and very short anthers, agreed with 
the description and scanty available herbarium material of 
HI. yuccaefolia, and from this plant, offsets of which are now 
growing in the Missouri Botanical Garden, the following 
notes have been made. 
The flowers are ephemeral, and their original appearance 
would scarcely be guessed from the withered remains after 
they have fallen, or from such herbarium material as is 
usually seen. Though the buds are erect, the soft, rosy 
articulated pedicels ultimately arch over, so that the ex- 
panded flowers are horizontal or more frequently pendent. 
In texture they are suggestive of Lapageria, and this re- 
semblance, notwithstanding their smaller size and some- 
what different form, is increased by their beautiful 
outward shading with rose-color, on a creamy ground 
color which prevails on the inner surface. The firm 
succulent distinct but closely appressed segments of 
the perianth are about half a millimeter thick in the 
middle and outwardly recurved near the end, which, as 
in Yucca, is tipped with a minute tuft of white hair- 
like papillae. The inner segments are 8 or 9 mm. 
wide, and the outer segments a little narrower. The white 
or rosy slightly tapering filaments are adnate to the seg- 
ments for a short distance and then stand erect, with 
the very slender apex abruptly incurved so as to make 
the oblong versatile anthers suberect and introrse, close 
against the filaments, with their abundant bright yellow 
powdery pollen exposed toward the style. The conical- 
ovoid greenish ovary is very slightly 6-grooved, and the 
white style, somewhat tapering and triquetrous near the 
base, soon becomes filiform and terete except for three 
