THE YUCCEAE. 17 
Y. gloriosa planifolia Engelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 3:39, 41.(1873), 
Y. filamentosa variegata Park & Cemetery. 11; 184. f. 
Y. variafolia Garden. 163 257. 
Shortly caulescent, branching. Leaves at first somewhat glaucous, 
nearly plane, long, flexible, recurved, about 50 mm. wide, often slightly 
plicate above, narrowly yellow- or brown-margined, often with a very 
few microscopic teeth, at length entire or slightly filiferous. Panicle 
narrow, the scape often included. Styles shouldered. Fruit erect, 
oblong, with 6 winged ribs mostly infolded over the nectarial grooves: 
seeds rather dull, 6 to 77 to 8 mm., the surface less grooved. — Plates 
46,47. 84, f. 5. 
‘¢ Sea islands ’’ and adjacent coast of Georgia, and on 
Dauphin, Ship and Breton islands, between the mouth of 
the Mobile and the mouth of the Mississippi river. — Plate 
94, f. 2. 
This species appears to have been in cultivation since 
1794, and, like the preceding, is represented by many gar- 
den varieties, among which some of the described hybrids 
already referred to are placed in the following key : — 
Leaves neither variegated nor very broadly margined. Y. recurvifolia. 
Bracts blackish- or purplish-brown. f. tristis. 
Leaves dark green, 75 mm. broad. Y. & Andreana. 
Leaves with conspicuous brown margin. f. rufocincta. 
Leaves variegated. 
With broad yellow margin. f. marginata. 
With median yellow band. f£. variegata. 
With median reddish stripe. f. elegans. 
Short and broad with pale or purplish stripes. Y. X dracaenoides. 
Y. RECURVIFOLIA Salisbury. 
Synonymy as above. 
Leaves soon becoming dark green, greatly elongated, very much 
recurved. — Plates 46, f. 2. 47, f. 1. 84,f. 5. 
The usual wild form. 
Y. recurvifolia tristis (Carritre) Trelease. 
Y. gloriosa tristis Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1860: 303. — Koch, Dendrol. 
2? 3 345. 
A form with blackish-purple bracts. 
