In the 277th Number of The Botanical Magazine the writer, endeavouring to destroy the authority of the figure of Yucca gloriosa in The Botanist’s Repository, vol. vii., and establish that of his own as the first, says that our figure cannot belong to that plant, in which “the trunk reaches only from six inches to two feet (Miller says in his Dictionary, from two feet and a half to three feet!) in height, and where the leaves are quite entire; but to Y. aloifolia, whose trunk reaches from 6 to 10 feet in height, and the leaves have a finely crenulate edging.” Our drawing was taken at Lord Boston’s from a plant only ten feet high, the stem little more than three, and the leaves not in the least crenated! The panicle in our figure is also said to be much closer than in that, with its branches likewise more lax and drooping. With all these contradictory qualities, however, it very much resembles Barreliere’s figure of the same, which the writer himself has quoted, and in which the curvature of the buds, which he holds to be so extraordinary, is also conspicuous. No less curious is his objection to the tinge of purple on the flowers. Could it be possible that he had not seen either the plant that he way describing or the drawing of it? (See the figure in The Botanical Magazine.) But we leave the Yuccas to speak for themselves. The filamentosa he has also complimented with five feet of a stem (Botanical Magazine, No. 900), and quoted Micham’s authority for it, although that author expressly says that it is stemless! [Illustration] PLATE DXCIX. CHAMÆROPS HUMILIS. _Dwarf Fan-Palm._ CLASS XXIII. ORDER II. _POLYGAMIA DIŒCIA._ Stamens and Pointals on different Plants, with some perfect Flowers occasionally. GENERIC CHARACTER. MASC. Calyx 3-partitus. Corolla 3-petala. Stamina 6. HERMAPH. Calyx, corolla et stamina ut in masculis. Styli 3. Drupæ 3, monospermæ. MALES. Cup 3-parted. Blossom 3-petalled. Stamens 6. HERMAPHRODITES. Cup, blossom and stamens as in the males. Styles 3. Berries 3, dry, one-seeded. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. CHAMÆROPS frondibus palmatis, stipitibus spinosis, spathâ simplici. _Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 1154._ CHAMÆROPS with palmate boughs, prickly footstalks, and simple sheaths. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. Empalement and blossom. 2. The same shown from the outer side. 3. The chives. * * * * *