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Dyckia (Flowers spicate sepals free)

Flowers spicate; sepals free, ovate, imbricated; petals longer, narrowed at base, convolute-imbricated, at length spreading; stamens free, or shortly connate at base with the petals. Leaves densely rosulate, rather thick, spinulose-serrated. To the species described on p. 497, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. leptostachya (slender-spiked). fl. twenty to twenty-five, in a simple, erect spike 6in. to 9in. long; sepals reddish, densely pruinose; corolla bright scarlet, 3/4in. long, the petals 1/2in. broad; peduncle slender, 3ft. long. Summer. l. fifteen to eighteen in a dense, nearly sessile rosette, lanceolate, acuminate, falcate, rigid, 1 1/2ft. to 1 3/4ft. long, 1in. to 1 1/4in. broad, semicircular at back, the marginal prickles brown. Paraguay. 1867.