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error) occasionally has been said to do so, when the Yucca 
Moth is not present to effect pollination;* and I was in- 
formed that this particular tree has several times ripened a 
number of fruits, from which seedlings have been raised. 
Seeing my interest in the matter, Sr. do Canto was kind 
enough to instruct his gardener that if any fruits ripened 
that year they were to be saved for me, and toward the 
end of the following winter I received two, which are 
closely comparable with those of Y. gloriosa, possessing 
the firm core and tardily drying indehiscent pulp of that 
species;+ though the somewhat greater thickness of this 
pulp goes to show the relationship of the Clistoyuccas, as 
represented of Y. gloriosa, Y. gigantea and Y. brevifolia, 
with the Sarcoyuceas, of the aloifolia and Guatemalensis 
type.t Several seedlings, from an earlier fruiting of the 
tree, were also sent to the Garden, where, with a few raised 
from the relatively few good seeds of these fruits, they are 
in cultivation. 
Though in flower, fruit and seed characters, this tree 
might well pass for Y. gloriosa, it is much larger than any 
specimen of that species to which I have found reference,— 
a fact perhaps in part due to the very favorable climate of 
the Azores. But on closer examination its leaves prove 
also quite different from those of Y. gloriosa, in that they 
are large and broad, as in Y. Guatemalensis, to which, 
indeed, barring the absence of a slight roughness on the 
principal plications, they bear close resemblance, while 
they are slightly roughened on the margin and much more 
plicate longitudinally than in any form of Y. gloriosa that 
I have examined. Although the trunk does not appear to 
be dilated below as is that of Y. Guatemalensis,§ — at least 
in specimens of the size cultivated in plant houses, — the 
seedlings are strongly bulbously dilated at the base of the 
* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 199.—Sargent, Silva 10: 24. 
Tt Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 8: 165. pl. 50. 1892. 
t Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 224. 
§ Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: pl. 7. 
