ON DASYLIRION AND BEAUCARNEA. 827 
sometimes again compound. Flowers placed all down the branchlets with 
spaces between them. Pedicels at ums; a linelong. Bracteoles a line long, 
roundish, white, serrulate, on the ou ig rder. Perianth $ inch deep. 
Stamens not exserted. “ ’ Angles of the ES. acute, but not winged.” 
6. B. HOOKERI, Baker. Dasylirion Hookeri, Lemaire, MSS. teste Morren, 
Bei. Hort. xv. p. 324. D. Hartwegianum, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5099, 
non Zucc.; caudice depresso fruticoso hemispherico rosulis numerosis 
instructo, foliis anguste linearibus Mte 2-3-pedalibus, supra basin 
circiter 3 lin. latis, gla aucis venis exsculptis apice integris, floribus in pani- 
culam deltoideam dispositis, ramulis pr totam longitudinem densifloris, 
pedicellis oretenus. staminibus exse 
A native of Mexico, in the Wie of Real de Monte, sent to 
Kew in 1846 by M r. Repper . It flowered in 1859, and was figured in 
the ‘ Botanical Magazine,’ aud there are two fine plants at the pre 
time in the Cactus-house. Iam inforsun by Prof. Thiselton Dyer et 
hard round knots an inch thick, from which the rosettes of leaves spring. 
Leaves about fifty to each rosette, bending over from near the base, the 
branches simple, the lower slightly branched ; ; branchlets cylindrical, densely 
Ped down to the base, reaching three inches long by half an inch thic 
Pedicels very short, articulated at the apex. Bracteoles minute, ovate. 
Perianth 1 me deep, tinged with purple. Stamens exserted. 
T. B BGIANA, Baker. Dasylirion ripe? Zucc. in Act. 
Acad. hes iv. seth. 2, 1845 ; Kunth, Enum on Hook. Bot. Mag.t. 
$099. D. junceum, Zuco. et t Kunth, loc. cit. Cordyline longifolia, Benth. 
Pl. Hartweg., p. “oe ocu longifolia, A. Brong. loc. cit. Beaucarnea 
gracilis, Lemaire, Ill. Hort. vii. Misc. p. 61; caudice elongato basi 
tuberoso, foliis aroe strictis anguste linearibus, 2-3 pedes nee supra 
n 9-3 lin. latis, facie canaliculatis apice integris, scapo ssimo, 
foribus in panieulam diese oblongam dispositis, ramulis reser uos 
lusis 
pedicellis perianthio subæquilongis, ume rd Hartweg, 406 ; 
night, i | — 
y and Lemaire may 
wn, to pepe distinet oan that of Bentham, 
but so far as present arakan goes, there is really absolutely nothing 
to justify their separation. Does this exist anywhere in h gardens 
at the present time? I have not been able to meet wit i 
ek said to be similar to those o of recurvata and iade but less ele- 
igid,” 2-3 feet 
rrow 
face, the back hemispherical, 
e 
ntire rin e point, d n the ower part not more mats, 
with often a distinct keel, the veins of the l 
