THE YUCCEAE. 77 



Y. gloriosa planifolia Engelm. Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 3 : 39, 41. (1873). 

 Y. filamentosa variegata Park & Cemetery. 11 ; 184. /. 

 Y. variafolia Garden. 16:257. 



Shortly caulescent, branching. Leaves at first somewhat glaucous, 

 nearly plane, long, flexible, recurved, about 50 mm. wide, often slightly 

 plicate above, narrowly yellow- or brown-margined, often with a very 

 few microscopic teeth, at length entire or slightly flliferous. Panicle 

 narrow, the scape often included. Styles shouldered. Fruit erect, 

 oblong, with 6 winged ribs mostly infolded over the nectarial grooves : 

 seeds rather dull, 6 to 7X 7 to 8 w&-> the surface less grooved. Plates 

 46. 47. 84, f. 5. 



* Sea islands " and adjacent coast of Georgia, and on 

 Dauphin, Ship and Breton islands, between the mouth of 

 the Mobile and the mouth of the Mississippi river. Plate 

 94, f. 2. 



This species appears to have been in cultivation since 

 1794, and, like the preceding, is represented by many gar- 

 den varieties, among which some of the described hybrids 

 already referred to are placed in the following key : 



Leaves neither variegated nor very broadly margined. Y. recurvifolia. 



Bracts blackish- or purplish-brown. f. tristis. 



Leaves dark green, 75 mm. broad. Y. X Andreana. 



Leaves with conspicuous brown margin. f. rufocincta, 

 Leaves variegated. 



With broad yellow margin. f. marginata. 



With median yellow band. f . variegata. 



With median reddish stripe. f. elegans. 



Short and broad with pale or purplish stripes. Y. X dracaenoides. 



Y. KECURVIFOLIA Salisbury. 



Synonymy as above. 



Leaves soon becoming dark green, greatly elongated, very much 

 recurved. Plates 46, f. 2. 47, f. 1. 84, f. 5. 



The usual wild form. 



Y. recurvifolia tristis (Carriere) Trelease. 



Y. gloriosa tristis Carrifere, Rev. Hort. 1860 : 303. Koch, Dendrol. 



2 2 : 345. 

 A form with blackish-purple bracts. 



