Sansevieria.] ` ct. HÆMODORACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 
? CEYLON.—DISTRIB. ? Tropical Africa. . . 
Leaves 1-1} in. broad at the base, very thickly fleshy and hard, margins scarious, 
e 1-2 ft., with distant scarious sheaths; bracts $ in. long; pedicels short; 
Petianth 14 in, diam.—The above description accords with Baker’s, and with the 
plant figured in The Botanical Register, of which the origin is uncertain, but which 
be long been cultivated as a native of Ceylon. It is stated to inhabit also Tropical 
and South Africa ; which is more probably its native country. 
2. S. Roxburghiana, Schult. fil. Syst. vii. 357; loaves 1-2 ft. nar- 
Welt linear-ensiform narrowed towards the base semiterete channelled 
ve green faintly clouded with black, scape slender, raceme elongate, 
ers zin. long. Kunth Enum. v.18; Baker. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 
2 S. zeylanica, Roxb. Pl. Cor. ii. 45, t. 184; Fl. Ind. ii. 161.—? Rheede 
Hort. Mal. xi, t. 42  Moorva, As. Res. iv. 971. 
Cogo ANDEL Coast, Roxburgh. . . 
According to Roxburgh’s drawing (at Kew) this is a very different species from 
>. zeylanica, with fewer very much longer and much narrower leaves reaching 4 ft. 
i length, 1 in, broad, narrower at the base and not nearly so deeply channelled ; 
Scape is more slender with few narrowly lanceolate sheaths, the raceme much 
Tand the flowers smaller.— Whether it is Rheede’s xi. t. 42, which grows in 
andy places on the Malabar coast, is doubtful. Roxburgh describes it as cultivated 
for its fibre, I suspect that it is the only species indigenous to India and is confined 
to the Western Peninsula and Ceylon, wild or cultivated. 
Order CLI. IRIDEX. 
Perennial herbs; rootstock various, Leaves narrow, often distichous 
6. . Quitant, Flowers 9-bracteate. Perianth superior, petaloid, segments 
iseriate, imbricating. Stamens 3, epigynous, or adnate to the outer 
qu wth-segments ; anthers often narrow, extrorse. Ovary 3-celled ; style 
em stigmas 3, simple or petaloid or variously cleft; ovules many, 
Seal] te in the inner angles of the cells, anatropous. Capsule trigonous, 
i loculicidal. Seeds many, testa thin or coriaceous; embryo 
drei in the albumen, short, cylindric.—Genera 57, species about 700, 
fy temperate, 
el Monza, Stamens opposite to and shorter than the petaloid 
Stigmatic surface on the back of the petaloid style-arms . . . . I. IRIS, 
Tribe IL S 
Rootstock a 
slender , e. 1 . D... 1. CRocvs. 
tstock creeping; stem erect ; perianth-tube very short . 2. BELAMCANDA. 
ISYRINCHIER. Stamens alternating with the style-arms. 
tunicate corm; stem 0; perianth-tube long 
Rootst " 1. IRIS, Linn. Perianth 
4 n oek bulbous or creeping. Leaves equitant, ensiform. eriantA- 
i, [ss oF Short, Segments largo, outer (sepals) largest, stipitate, reflexed, 
ak) usually smaller, suberect or reflexed. Stamens inserted a 
gonone. of the outer segments; anthers linear, basifixed. pary 
With style stout; stigmas petaloid, arching over the stamens, A 
a transverse dorsal crest, stigmatic surface a point below he 
fige, UP sule coriaceous, 3- or 6-ribbed. Seeds flat or globose, testa 
mne fleshy -—Species about 100, North temperate regions. 
