264 OXLIX. SCITAMINEZ, (J. G. Baker.) [ Lowia- 
lingulate bract folded round the calyx tube and others from the pedicel. 
Calyz-Xube long, very slender ; segments 3, lanceolate, reflexed. Corolla of 
3 petals; two upper small, lanceolate ; lower large, oblong, clawed. Fertile 
stamens 5; filaments short, cylindric; anthers linear, acuminate, 2-celled. 
Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style long, slender, trifurcate at 
the stigmatose apex. Fruit and seeds unknown. Orchidantha, N. E. 
Br. in Gard. Chron. n. s. xxvi. (1886) 519.—Also Borneo. 
L. longiflora, Scortech. in Nuov. Giorn. Ital. xviii. 308, t. 11. 
PERAK, in the province of Kinta, Scortechini, Kunstler. 
Whole plant 3—4 ft.; flower-bearing petiole 1} ft., flowerless much shorter ; 
blade oblong, 2-3 ft. Calyz-tube 4-5 in.; segments rather shorter, 3 in. broad. 
Upper petals equal, as long as the stamens; lower with a white oblong blade 2 in. 
long, narrowed suddenly to a rather shorter purple claw. Style an inch longer than 
the calyx-tube; branches of stigma channelled, margins toothed. 
Order CL. HEEMODORACEZ. 
Perennial herbs. Leaves usually radical, distichous, narrow, nerve 
parallel. Flowers bisexual, in terminal spikes racemes in panicles, regular. 
Perianth corolline, persistent; lobes 6, biseriate, imbricate or induplicate- 
valvate. Stamens 6, opposite the perianth-lobes or fewer ; anthers erect or 
versatile, 2-celled, rarely opening by pores. Ovary inferior or subinferior; 
3-celled ; stigma simple or 3-notched; ovules 1-many, on the inner angles 
of the cells, anatropous or semianatropous. Fruit superior or inferior, 
dehiscent or not. Seeds various; embryo small, partially enclosed in the 
fleshy albumen. 
TRIBE I. Conostylese. Ovary-cel/s many-ovuled. 
Flowers in a long simple spike or raceme . . . . 1l. ALETRIS. 
TRIBE II. Ophiopogeneze. Ovary-cells 1-2-ovuled. 
Filaments connate in a ring closing the mouth of the 
prianth. =... ee, 2. PELIOSANTEES 
Filaments short, free. Perianth short superior . . . 3. OPutoPOGON. 
Filaments filiform. Perianth inferior tube slender  . . 4, SANSEVIERA- 
1. ALETRIS, Linn. 
Leaves radical, narrow. Scape leafless; flowers small, short, spicate, 
or racemed ; bracts 1-fld. Perianth-tube short, subcampanulate, lobes 8U^ 
valvate. Stamens 6, on the bases of the lobes, filaments very § ‘cle 
anthers ovate or subglobose. Ovary half-inferior, top conic, 3-celled; sty o 
3-partible, or 3-fid; ovules many, 2-seriate or elongate placentas. Cape 
half superior, loculicidally 8-valved. Seeds minute, oblong.— Species ^ 
N. American and Asiatic. 
will" litoralis, Kæn.; Wall. Cat. 5082, in Aloe vera, L. (A. perfoliatty 
Villd.). 
l. A. nepalensis, Hook. f.; leaves 5-7-nerved, flowers glabro 
anthers subglobose, ovary glabrous, style very short, capsule globes x 
ovoid. Tofieldia nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 5097; Royle lll. 385. Da 
pogon pauciflorus & spicatus, Klotzsch in Bot. Reise Pr. Wald. 49, t. 94. 
