bua. 
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ON DASYLIRION AND BEAUCARNEA. 
leaved forms of the last it may be known by its still narrower leaves, 
with deeper veins, decidedly glaucous colour, and more distinct m 
n 
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about twenty in number and very conspicuous.  Síricía is a misleading 
reaching an h 
texture, thieker than in the three preceding, glaucous-green, narro 
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gradually upwards, the point not seen, the veins 40-50 in the lower 
part, very close and deep, the edge bordered by a fine distinct red 
grey thread beyond it, which breaks away slightly 
like the border of Fucca filamentosa, entirely without serrulation. pe 
6-8 feet high. Panicle l-ii feetlong, a foot broad at the base, the 
rigidly erecto-patent, moderately closely flowered from base to apex. 
Fedicels very short, solitary or rarely geminate, exceeding the deltoid 
membranous braeteoles, articulated at the apex.  Perianth and stamens 
not seen, Fruit roundish, $ inch long, membranous, deeply cordate at 
ase. 
5. B.ERUMPENS 
p- 216 ; caudice ignoto, foliis anguste linearibus 23-3-pedalibus, supra 
basin 6—7 lin. latis, facie canalieulatis, venis exculptis, apice in bris 
tenacibus dissolutis, floribus thyr 
e i inibus inel 
cellis brevissimis 
Caudex not known. Leaves thick, rigidly coriaceous in texture, 24-3 feet 
ng, 3-£ inch broad above the deltoid base, which reaches 
a foot long, with numerous rigidly erecto-patent branchlets; the lowest : 
icle deltoid, 
