210 cL. HÆMODORACE®, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Ophiopogon. 
Assam ; Mrs. Mack. . ith much 
In foliage this resembles O. Malcolmsont, but the flowers are minute, with muc d 
shorter perianth-segments, and very different anthers, the seeds also are smaller an 
globose. 
8. O. Griffithii, Hook. f.; leaves very narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 
6-10 by 1-3 in. many-nerved narrowed into a very slender petiole, "P 
obtuse, scape stout compressed, raceme lax-fld., pedicels very short. 
Fluggea Griffithii, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 502. 
UPPER AssaM; on the Patkoye hills, alt. 4500 ft., Griffith. tin 
A very distinct-looking species, from the elliptic petioled leaves but not 1 
. flower. Baker describes the seeds as solitary oblong 4 in. long, blue. 
9. O. prolifera, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. 1 (1846), 76;_ rootstock 
climbing and rooting, leaves % in. broad ensiform decurved bright gren 
scape bright purple, flowers subsessile clustered obovate between fleshy 
and spongy, stamens united by a short fleshy ring, ovary thin-skinne 
adherent but not growing to the ovary 3-celled, ovules 2 erect in each ce ; 
style pyramidal, stigmas 3 point-like. Mazim. Mel. Bot. vii. 129. Fluggee 
prolifera, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 502. 
Penang. T. Lewis (Cult. in Hort. Soc. Gardens, 1845). . " 
I have seen no specimen.—A sketch of that in the Lindley Herbarium (now ` 
Cambridge) represents fragments of two strongly striated leaves 6-10 n. 008s 
without apices and a stout scape, with clusters of flowers about f in. diam. SU 
tended by broad ovate bracts. It a good deal resembles Liriope. 
DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
O. INDICUS, Royle mss. Ill. 382 (name only). 
O. MINOR, Royle mss. l.c. (name only), from Turanda in Kumaon, is probably 
intermedia, var. pauciflora. 
O. MOLLIS, Royle mss. l.c. (name only), “common in the Himalaya from the 
Ganges to the Sutlej,” is probably Theropogon pallidus. 
O.? PALLIDUS, Wall, Cat. 5138, is Theropogon pallidus. oh 
O. SPICATUS, Ker-Gawl.; said by Don (Prodr. 47) to be from Nepal, Wallich 
is Liriope spicata, a native of Japan and China, not hitherto found In India. 
OPHIOPOGON, sp.? Munnipore, Watt, a small species not in flower, possibly 
the Japanese O. japonicus. 
4. SANSEVIERIA, Thurle. 
Stout herbs with a short often stoloniferous rootstock. Leaves narrow, 
cartilaginous or fleshy flat or terete, nerves immersed. Scape stout ; 
flowers racemose, Perianth-tube long, slender, lobes narrow. Stamens ^ 
on the leaves of the lobes; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 
superior, attached by a broad base, 3-celled; style filiform, stigma SE d 
ovules solitary, erect in each cell. Fruit membranous, indehiscent. 5€ ia 
1-3 ripening outside the pericarp globose, all large, or 1-2 imperfect ; tes 
long, fleshy or succulent.—Species 10, Indian and African. . 
1. S. zeylanica, Willd. Sp. Pl. ii. 159; leaves 1-2 ft. ensiform Wo 
terete attenuate from the base to the acuminate lip, deeply channe in 
above, barred with green and edged with red, raceme short, flowers 1 
long. Redouté Liliac, t. 290; Bot. Reg. 5. 160; Kunth Enum. PI. v. 4 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 548. Aletris zeylanica, Mill. dict. No 
A. hyacinthoides, var. zeylanica, Linn. Sp. Pl. i, 456. Aloe zey lane’ 
Jacq. Enum, Stirp. Agu. Vindot. 310. 
