VIVIPARAE. 
Plates 1 to 13. 
Rather small or medium-sized somewhat cespitose subacaulescent plants with moderately 
numerous fleshy smooth green or lightly glaucous leaves with usually long and slender round- 
grooved or involute somewhat papery-decurrent spine and medium-sized subdistant prickles; 
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FLORIDA 
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HONDURAS 

moderate oblong panicles; medium-sized somewhat congested yellow flowers; moderate-sized 
more or less stipitate capsules; and rather large seeds. Freely bulbiferous. 
Confined to the Leeward Islands and the adjacent Venezuelan mainland. 
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