‘ON DASYLIRION AND BEAUCARNEA. 335 
vated at Ghent. Trunk reaching a height of 4—5 feet, and a thickness of half 
a foot upwards, dilated suddenly toa foot at the base. Leaves in a dense 
rosette of 100—900 or more at the summit of the caudex, 4-5 feet long, 
9-15 lines broad above the dilated base, similar to those of Pucca recur- 
Misc. p. 26, cum 
Pincinictitia recurvata, tuberculata, intermedia, rubra, Hortorum ; 
tivation in 1845 by Van der Maelen, of Brussels, and soon spread widely 
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were labelled ** Freycinetia,’ and it was through the miscopying of this by 
a gardener that the name “ Pincenictetia," which w b 
n, not at all glaucous, the nervation not so 
laxly on the branches 
or 
than p. : t long as the pe . 
in longifolia. Pedicels at most as long Var. intermedia, 
a ; var. rubri 
ilated deltoid base. ui ee 
3. B. srercra, Lemaire, Ill. Hort. viii., Misc. p. 61. — 
glauca, Hort. ; caudice elongato, basi tuberoso, foliis angus ce 
planis glaucis recurvatis immarginatis 3 pedes longis, supra basin 5—6 
lin. latis, apice integris, venis exsculptis, floribus ignotis. 
