AN ENCYCLOPZEDIA 
OF HORTICULTURE. 
Yucca —continued. 
late; panicle rhomboid, rather dense, 4ft. to 6ft. long, with 
erecto-patent, glabrous or pubescent branches, the lower ones 
lft. to e long: peduncle elongated, furnished with reduced 
leaves. July. J. 100 or more in a dense rosette, lift. to 3ft. long, 
2in. to Sin. broad, rigid, erect, obscure-green, slightly glaucescent, 
somewhat concave on the face and scabrous at back, pungent- 
pointed, the narrow, red-brown margins entire, or in young forms 
obscurely serrulated. Stem when old 4ft. to 6ft. high, — or 
branched. United States, 1596. See Fig. 247. (B. M. 1260; 
Ref. B. 320.) 
Y. g. acuminata (taper-pointed). fl. fewer; perianth liin. to 
Zin. long; panicle smaller. J. fifty to sixty, 6in. to 2ft. lon 
14in. to idin. broad, green, straight, acuminate. 1800. NEL 
stemless. Syn. Y. acuminata (Ref. B. 316; S. B. F. G. 195). 
Y. patens is a similar form, with more numerous, broader, and 
more glaucescent leaves. : 
FIG. 248. YUCCA GLORIOSA RECURVIFOLIA. 
Y. g. Ellacombei (Ellacombe’s). Jl., perianth segments acumi- 
nate, 24in. to An. long ; lower in. to lłin. L fi 
to » nearly en: AN 2ft. to 2ift. long, lain. to liin. b 
SYN. 
Y. f, medio-striata (m 
Lac 
Be (et mM 
: perianth llin. long; pou short ; 
; minor lossen £. t, ift. to 4ft. long, llin. 
to Lin, broad. Dwarter the type. (Ref. B. 319.) 
^ 8. obliqua (oblique). /. glaucous, 14in. to 2in. broad, oblique, 
Vol. IV. 
concave on the T at length smooth. Nearly ste 
Y. Ellacombei (Ref. B. 31 ingt 
middle-stri 
¢ ae pet 
l. having a 
a broad, 
on each side. 1880. 
Y.guatemalensis ( 
long, the — M: — 
Yucca—continued. 
Y. g. plicata (plaited). fl., perianth 2in. lo nicle large. 
L. slenderer than in the type, but straight, nah ‘plaited, lift. j^ 
2}ft. long, 2in. to 24in. broad, slightly scabrous at back. 
Y. g. pruinosa (pruinose). I seventy to eighty, straight, nearl 
flat in the middle, 2ft. to 21ft. long, fifteen - hess ag. Mosi, 
glaucescent. Nearly stemless. 
Y. g. recurvifolia (recurved-leaved)* /., perianth segments 
more narrowed at apex than in the type. J. 100 to 150, weaker 
than in the type, 2ft. to 3ft. long, the outer ones much recurved, 
less pungent at apex, flat and obscurely plicate in the middle 
above, concave only just above the base and below the apex ; 4 
young ones glaucous. Stem short, often branched, 1794, 
Figs. 248 and 249. Syns. Y. japonica (of gardens), Y. aM 
(R. H. 1859, p. 490), Y. recurva, Y. recurvifolia (Ref. B. 321), The 
garden form Soliis-variegatis has a pale greenish-red stripe down 
the centre. 1883. (I. 1883, 475. 
T- e rufocincta (reddish-girdled). 
slightly recurved, sub - glaucescent, ain, 
broad, smooth on ‘both sides, with clearly- 
defined, reddish-brown margins. 1816, 
Nearly 'stemless. 
FiG. eech YOUNG PLANT DEVELOPED FROM 
CUTTING OF YUCCA GLORIOSA 
E e 
superba (superb) /f. larger than 
Wies type; dE branches Zeg 
spreading. 
Trunk at length 10ft. Tigh. “CA. B. R. 473, under name - 
gloriosa.) 
; 
in, ong, n to oT broad, 
Stemless. i 
the outer ones broader 
scarious ; branes Bn, ns 
