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down the face, grass green, 2-4 mm. wide, contemporary 

 with the flowers and equaling or surpassing the peduncle, 

 Avhich is rather stout, 6-8 inches long, 4-5 mm. thick, 

 purple at base: spathe rose-colored, not quite as long as 

 tlje pedicel, 30 mm. long, bifid niore than half-way down 

 into lanceolate segments: perianth erect, about 30 mm. 

 long, white, yellowish at base within, tips of outer segments 

 ]3urplish; tube 2 mm. long, with a sparsely hairy ring at 

 top; segments lanceolate, acute, the inner broader: stamens 

 attached below the hairy ring in tlie throat, about half as 

 ]oDg as the perianth: style f the length of perianth; the 

 lobes of the stigma 5 mm. long: capsule about 10 mm. in 

 diameter. — Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands. 



Described from cultivated s])ecimeiis, the plants in their 

 native habitat being long past bloom in January. 



Agaye (Euagaye) Mahgaeit^ (Plate X). Acaulescent: 

 leaves 40-50, iu a dense rosette, 4-6 inches long, the outer 

 ones nearly as broad, the inner narrower, all concave, the 

 pungent terminal spine about 30 mm. long, continued along 

 the edge of the leaf for about the same distance as a dark, 

 horny border, the falcate or detiexed prickles 4-8 on each 

 side of the leaf, 4-8 mm. long: peduncle erect, 8-12 feet high 

 includiug the J as long panicle; branches 6-12, ascending, 

 6 inches long or less, rather few-flowered: flowers light 

 yellow; triangular lobes 10- b5 mm. long, a little exceeding 

 the tube: stamens adnate to the base of the lobes, and 

 about twice their length: style tubular, 3-lobed, a little ex- 

 ceeding the stamens: capsule somewhat clavate-trigonous, 

 constricted near the middle, 30-50 mm. long, 8-12 wide: 

 seeds 3-4 mm. in diameter, smooth. 



Very abundant upon Magdalena and Santa Margarita 

 Islands, bat not seen upon the mainland. The flowers 

 were filled to overflowing with nectar, which was often seen 

 running down the stem. 



