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material on which Mr. Baker’s description was based, while 
the other was secured by Dr. Franceschi, who has since 
sent vigorous suckers from it to Kew and to the Missouri 
Botanical Garden, these suckers having formed after the 
plant bloomed. It is not improbable that the seeds from 
which these plants were raised were derived from Mr. Prin- 
gle’s collection of 1891, and the living plant which I have 
examined shows, as would hardly have been expected from 
Mr. Baker’s description, leaves at first as concave as those 
of the other species of Hesperaloe, and quite indistinguish- 
able from those of the plants seen below Peyotes, so that 
it seems safe to refer all of these specimens of the Mexican 
table land to H. Davyi, which appears therefore to be 
rather widely distributed and which differs markedly from 
the Texan forms in the color of its flowers. 
Many years ago the Tonels introduced into European 
gardens a plant which seems never to have flowered there, 
and which was mentioned a number of times under the gar- 
den name Yucca funifera. No Yucca is yet known which 
possesses channeled filiferous dorsally striate leaves com- 
parable to those of Y. funifera as described, and though its 
apparent complete disappearance from cultivation makes its 
identity a matter of conjecture only, the foliage description 
so well fits this Mexican species of Hesperaloe as to leave 
little doubt in my mind that the latter should bear thename 
H. funifera. 
HESPEROYUCCA (Engelmann) Baker. 
Perianth broadly campanulate, of subequal distinct thin 
broadly lanceolate concave segments. Filaments evidently 
adnate to perianth below, clavate, suberect; anthers didy- 
mously cordate. Ovary oblong-ovoid or obovoid, mostly 
longer than the short slender style; stigma capitate, long- 
papillate, minutely perforate. Fruit capsular, incompletely 
6-celled, 3-valved through the laciniate false septa. Seeds 
