88 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



tivated at the Missouri Botanical Garden, but they are be- 

 lieved to have come from northern Mexico, many years ago r 

 through Dr. Parry. 



B. B. Fruit pendent, fleshy and edible : seeds thick, often convex, nearly 

 without a thin border; albumen evidently ruminated. Sarcoyucca. 



I. Fruit coreless, purple-fleshed. Leaves with denticulate horny border. 



Y. ALOIFOLIA Linnaeus Sp. Plant. 319. (1753). Walter, 

 Fl. Carol. 124. Michaux, Fl. 1 : 196. Pursh, Fl. 

 1 : 228. Nuttall, Gen. 1 : 218. Riddell, N. O. Me<L 

 and Surg. Journ. 8 : 763. De Candolle, PI. Grasses. 

 1. pi. 20. Redoute,Liliace'es. 7. pi. 401-2. Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. 4O. pi. 1700. Bommer, Journ. d'Hort. 

 Prat. [ii]. 3:18. Lemaire, 111. Hort. 13:92. 

 Curtis, Bot. N. C. 56. Baker, Gard. Chron. 

 1870 : 828. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 : 221. Kew 

 Bull. 1892 : 7. Engelmann, Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 

 3 : 34, 211. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 14 : 251. 

 Wood & McCarthy, Journ. Elisha Mitchell Soc. 

 1885-6:125. Trelease, Kept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 3 : 162. pi. 7,44. 4 : 182. pi. 18. Webber, Kept. 

 Mo. Bot. Gard. 6:91. pi. 45-7. Sargent, Silva. 



1OiQ.pl. 497 Hemsley, Bot. Bermudas. 69. 



Kearney, Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 5 6 . Index. 



Y. aloifolia stenophylla Bommer, Journ. d'Hort. Prat. [ii]. 3 : 19. 



(1859). 

 r. gloriosa Nuttall, Gen. 1 : 218. Bartram, Travels. 69-70, and French 



ed. 1 : 139-142. ? Chapman, West. Journ. Med. & Surg.1845 : 480. 



Rev. Hort. 58:508. Eggers, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. 13:109. 



Hemsley, Bot. Bermudas. 69. 

 r. Draconis Elliott, Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1 : 401. 

 r. serrulata Haworth, Suppl. 32. (1819). Regel, Gartenflora. 8 : 35. 



Lemaire, 111. Hort. 13 : 93. Engelmann, Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 



3 : 37. Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18:221. 

 Y. crenulata Haworth, Suppl. 33. (1819). Lemaire, 111. Hort. 13 : 93. 



Baker, Gard. Chron. 1870:828. Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18:221. 



Engelmann, Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 3 : 37. 

 ? Y. armata Steudel, Nomencl. 2: 795. [ed. 2]. (1841.) 



? Aloe Juccae foliis. Sloane, Cat. PI. Jamaica. 118. (1696.) 

 Aloe Americana juccae foliis arborescens. Commelin, Praelud. Bot. 

 64. /. 14. (1703.) 



