at Kew within the last few years ; the last time this present 
spring. 
Descr. Caudex reaching in the specimen drawn a length 
of a foot, forked dichotomously, and bearing two tufts of 
leaves. Leaves about thirty in a lax rosette, lanceolate, two 
feet long, three inches broad at the middle, narrowing gradu- 
ally to a non-pungent point, and to a breadth of two inches 
above the dilated base, somewhat fleshy in texture, one-eighth 
to a quarter inch thick in the centre, an inch thick at the 
base, bright green, with often a broad pale band down the 
centre, the margin furnished with copious close, unequal, 
deltoid, spreading, chestnut-brown spines. Scape twice or 
three times as long as the leaves, furnished with numerous 
erect linear reduced bract- like leaves. Panicle cernuous, 
subspicate, cylindrical, three feet long ; peduncle and pedicels 
nearly obsolete ; bracts linear, from a dilated base, much 
shorter than the flowers. Perianth green, with a yellow 
tinge in the upper part ; ovary oblong, half-inch long ; tube 
broadly funnel-shaped, as long as the ovary, dilated at the 
throat ; segments oblong, obtuse, half- inch long, erect-falcate 
when fully expanded. Filaments inserted in the perianth- 
tube, subulate, reaching a length of eighteen to twenty-one 
lines ; anthers ligulate, versatile, three- eighths of an inch 
long. Style reaching as high as the top of the stamens ; 
stigma capitate. Capsule oblong -trigonous, one and a quarter 
to one and a half inches long. — J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, The whole plant, much reduced in size ; 2, a leaf less reduced ; 3, summit 
of a leaf; 4, portion of the panicle, with several pairs of flowers ; 5, , capsule, the 
three last natural size. 
