arborescent, with a very much branched trunk 20–30 ft. long, 3–4 ft. diam.; leaves in a dense rosette at the tip of the branches, lanceolate, 6–8 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. broad low down, 1/4– 1/3 in. thick in the centre, very glaucous, unspotted, nearly flat on the face, rounded on back, sometimes smooth, sometimes studded over with copious minute prickles; margin with small, white, deltoid teeth; peduncle short, stout, branched; racemes lax, 3–6 in. long, with a stout, sulcate rachis; pedicels ascending, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; bracts minute, lanceolate; perianth oblong, bright yellow, about an inch long; tube much shorter than the segments, the three outer of which are valvate in bud; style and stamens distinctly exserted. null
