a space of three or four inches in a sessile or shortly stalked 
rosette, which in the mature plant is multifarious, but in the 
young plant sometimes subdistichous, lanceolate, acuminate, 
varying from half a foot to a foot long, one and a half or 
two inches broad at the base, narrowed gradually to the 
point, flat at the base, where they are about about half an 
inch thick, deeply channelled in the upper part, a sixth of 
an inch thick in the centre, pale green, irregularly marked 
on both surfaces with small oblong whitish blotches, which 
become less numerous in older specimens, the edge margined 
with copious spreading pale green deltoid prickles a twelfth 
or an eighth of an inch long. Scape simple, a foot and a 
half long, furnished with a few distant small deltoid bracts. 
Raceme simple, four to eight inches long, much laxer than 
in A. barbadensis , about two inches in diameter when ex- 
panded ; pedicels a sixth to a quarter of an inch long, the 
lower ones cernuous ; bracteoles lanceolate, as long as the pedi- 
cels. Perianth cylindrical, bright yellow, slightly tinged 
with red, an inch long ; tube campanulate, an eighth of an 
inch long ; segments lanceolate, keeled with green towards 
the tip. Stamens all included ; filaments bright yellow ; 
anthers oblong, small. Style finally just exserted. — J. G. 
Baker . 

Fig. 1, A single flower; fig. 2, the same, cut open : — both magnified. 
