THE YUCCEAE. 89 
Aloes Floridana procerior. Plukenetius, Amalth. Bot. 10, (1705). 
Aloe Yuccae foliis caulescens Floridana. Plukenetius, Amalth. Bot. 
10. (1705). Almag. 19. pl. 256. f. 4. (1696, 1700). 
Aloe; Americana; folio Yuccae; arborescens. Boerhaave, Index Alter 
Plant. Hort. Lugd.- Bat. 2 3 131. (1720, 1727). 
Yucca arborescens, foliis rigidioribus, rectis, serratis. Dillenius, 
Hort. Elth. 23435. pl. 323. (1732). 
Yucca foliorum margine crenulato.a. Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff. 130. 
(1737). 
Cordyline foliis pungentibus crenulatis. Van Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prod. 
22. (1740). 
Low slender tree, somewhat short-branched above and often cespi- 
tosely suckering. Leaves flat, rather thick, rigid, denticulate on the 
margin, very pungently brown-pointed. Inflorescence usually close to 
the leaves, compactly panicled. Flowers creamy, tinged with green or 
purple toward the base; ovary shortly stipitate; style short, not con- 
tracted, oblong or a little tumid, abruptly starting from the ovary. Fruit 
oblong-prismatic, nearly black, coreless, with dark purple pulp; seeds 
glossy, round or oval, often acute at one end, 5 or 6 6 or 7 mm. — 
Plates 49-50. 84, f. 6. 
Virgin Isles, Jamaica, eastern coast of Mexico (Vera 
Cruz), the Bermudas, Atlantic and Gulf States southward 
from about Pamlico Sound; and occasionally escaping from 
cultivation as far inland as Monroe in northwestern Louisi- 
ana. — Plate 95, f. 1. 
The principal forms of this species, which has been cul- 
tivated in Europe since 1605 and which differs from all 
other Yuccas in its stipitate ovary and coreless purple-pulped 
fruit, commonly formed without Pronuba aid, may be dis- 
tinguished as follows : — 
Panicle glabrous. 
Leaves rigid, ascending, usually 25 to 40 mm. wide when developed. 
Green throughout. Y. aloifolia. 
Purplish tinged. f. purpurea. 
Yellow-margined. f. marginata. 
With yellow and white center, and often red variegation. f. tricolor. 
Leaves recurving. 
Leaves 40 to 50 mm. wide. Stem tall. 
Branching above. var. Draconis. 
Branching at base. f. conspicua. 
Leaves 10 to 20 mm. wide. Stem low. 
