THE YUCCEAE. 39 
thin, flat; albumen not ruminated. — Subacaulescent 
plants with straight needle-pointed rough-margined flat 
leaves, and ample panicle. 
H. Wurerter (Torrey) Baker, Kew Bull. 1892: 8. — Tre- 
lease, Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 208. pl. 16, 23. 
Yucca Whipplei Torrey, Bot. Bound. 222. (1859). — Baker, Gard. 
Chron. 18703: 828. 1871: 1516. n.s. 6: 196. f. 42. 0.8. 23: 796. 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 : 230. — Palmer, Amer. Journ. Pharm. 50: 
587. —Garden. 27: 266. 853561. /.— Engelmann, Bot. King. 497. 
Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 8: 54, 214, 372. Watson, Proc. Amer. 
Acad. 143254. Bot. Calif. 2; 164.— André, Rev. Hort. 58: 67. 
jf. 13.— Smith, Gard. Chron. iii. 13: 749. — Coville, Contr. U. 8S. 
Natl. Herb. 4: 203.— Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna. 7 : 359. — Tre- 
lease, Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 33 164. pl. 11,12, 54.— Gard. & For. 
8: 414-5. f. — Hooker, Bot. Mag. iii. 55. pl. 7662.— Land of Sun- 
shine. 11; 251. f.— Orcutt, West Amer. Scientist. 63 134. 
Y. Whipplei glauca Wiener Ill. Gart.-Zeit. 143 197. 
Y. Whipplei graminifolia Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 : 230. 
Y. aloifolia Torrey, Pac. R. R. Rept. 43 147. 
Y. filamentosa Home and Flowers. 11%: 12. f. 
Y. graminifolia Wood, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1868 ; 167. 
Y. Ortgiesiana Roezl, Belg. Hort. 1880+ 51. 
Y. Engelmanni Gard. Chron. n. 8. 143 43. ( 1880). 
? Y. Californica Groenland, Rev. Hort. 1858: 434,— Lemaire, Ill. 
Hort. 10: after pl. 372. (1868). 18: 96.— Gard. Chron. n. 8. 
5 3 794, 829. 
Simple or, in the mountains, frequently cespitose. Leaves ascending, 
rigid, .3 to 1 m. long, about 15 mm. wide, plano-convex, subtriquetrous, 
or keeled on both faces, sometimes falcate, striate, glaucous, keenly but 
finely denticulate, with very slender pungent end spine. Inflorescence 2 
to 5 m. high, oblong, long peduncled, glabrous. Flowers Yucca-like, 
pendent, fragrant. Capsule about 5 cm. long: seeds 6 to7X8 mm. — 
Plates 4, f. 2.5. 81,f. 9. 
California, from the mountains above Monterey to the 
vicinity of Alamo, lower California ; eastward to the vicin- 
_ ity of San Bernardino — Plate 84, f. 1. 
Yucca Whipplei is the name proposed by Dr. Torrey, 
and still commonly employed, for a plant which, when in 
bloom, forms one of the most striking and beautiful fea- 
tures of the Coast-range vegetation of southern California. 
