72 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



11. Leaves 'at most sparingly denticulate or flliferous, pungent. 

 Lower plants. 



2. Leaves broad, rigidly ascending or spreading. 



Y/ GLORIOSA Linnaeus, Sp. PL 319. (1753). Walter, FL 



'Carol. 124. Michaux, Fl. 1 :196. Duhamel, Arbres 



et Arbustes. 3. pi. 35. Bryant, Flora Diaetetica. 



.16. Pursh, Fl. 1:228. Elliott, Bot. S. C. & Ga. 



1 : 400. Baker, Gard. Chron. 187O : 1184. Engel- 



'mann, Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 3:38, 211, 213. 



Koch, Dendrologie. 2 2 :343. Carriere, Rev. Hort. 



49:287. /. 48. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 



J14 : 251. Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 : 225. 



.Sargent, Silva. 1O:23.^Z. 503. Gard. Chron. iii. 



'28 : 262. /. 77. Garden. 49 : 218. /. 



(Y. acuminata Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 2. pi. 195. (1827). Bommer, 



\Journ. d'Hort. Prat. 1859 : 42. Lemaire, 111. Hort. 13:95. 



Baker, Gard. Chron. 1870:1123. Ref. Bot. 5. pi. 316. Engel- 



mann, Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 3 : 40. Garden. 8:133. Gard. 



Chron. n. s. 4:110. 



Y. gloriosa acuminata Carriere, Rev. Hort. 1868 : 157. Baker, Journ. 



Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 : 226. 

 Y. integerrima Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. 2 : 267. (1812). 



~*Yuca, sive lucca Perana. Gerarde, Herball. 1359. /. (1597). 

 Yuca foliis Aloes. Bauhin, Pinax. 91. (1623, 1671). Morison, Plant. 



Hist. 2:419. Sect. 4. pi. 23. (1680). Pontedera, Anthologia. 295. 



pi. 6.f. n. (1720). 



Yuca sive lucca. Parkinson, Paradisus Terrestris. 434. /. (1629). 

 Yucca, sive lucca Peruana. Johnson in Gerarde, Herball. 1543. /. 

 , (1636). Raius, Hist. Plant. 2: 1201. (1688). 

 Juca gloriosa. Hunting,, Waare Oeff. der PI. 471. pi. (1682). Naauw- 



keur. Beschryv. der Aardgew. 663. (1696.) 

 Yucca; foliis Aloes. Boerhaave, Index Alter PI. Hort. Lugd.-Bat. 



2:132. (1720, 1727). 

 Cordyline foliis pungentibus integerrimis. Van Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prod. 



22. (1740). 

 Yucca foliis margine integerrimis. Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff. 130. (1737) 



Hort. Ups. 88. (1748). 



Shortly caulescent and cespitose or the trunk 3 to 5 m. high and with 

 several branches. Leaves slightly glaucous when young, smooth or the 

 dorsal lines roughened, rather thin but rigid, often concave near the in- 

 rolled purfgent usually dark apex, about .5 m. long and 50 mm. wide, the 



