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anthers smallish, ovate, attached hy their hack to the
filaments. Germen superior, three-sided. Stigmas 3,
with two-lohed points.
Our drawing of this handsome species of Yucca, was
made in October last, at the Nursery of Mr. Pamplin,
at Lavender-hill, in the Wandsworth-road, near London,
where it was supposed to he a weak plant of
Yucca-gloriosa; but it immediately struck us as being
a distinct species, which we had an opportunity of ascertaining
by comparing it with that species, from which
it diifers very much, the perianthium of that having
broad ovate leaflets, as represented in the Botanical Magazine,
those of the present being narrow and acuminate
; the leaves are also much less, as is the plant altogether,
the trunk being scarcely a foot in height. In
November last, we saw another plant of the same species,
and about the same size, in full bloom at the Nursery
of Mr. Miller, at Bristol. It is nearer related to
Y. rufocincta than to any other with which we are acquainted,
but is distinguished at first sight, the leaves
of that being weak and flaccid, drooping from about
the middle, and of a different form, those of the present
being straight, and rigid ; the flower of that, we
believe, to be also different, hut we had no opportunity
of comparing them. The whole of the genus thrive well
in a rich light soil, and are increased by the suckers at
the roots.
1. The outline o f the base o f one o f the lower leaves, to show tlie difference
between it and one o f the stem ones. 2. One o f the stem leaves. 3. The fl pu
bescent Stamens, inserted in the b ase o f th e Perianthium . 4. The three-sided
germen, terminated by three two-lobed Stigmas.