Eremurus.] CLVI. LILIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 333 
Leaves 1-3 ft. by 4-3 in. Scape and raceme very stout, 2-3 ft. ; pedicels $ in., 
ts subulate filiform. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; segments oblong, l-nerved, about 
equalling the filament. Capsule } in. diam. Seeds triquetrous. 
2. B. persicus, Boiss. Diagn. vii. 119 ; Fl. Orient. v. 326 ; puberulous, 
bracts ovate-lanceolate shorter than the pedicels, flowers white, filaments 
shorter than the erianth, capsule smooth small broadly winged. Baker 
aay Linn. Boc. xv. 284. Asphodelus persicus, Jaub. & Spach TU. 
- Or. t. 102, 
NonrH-WzsT INDIA ; Salt range, Mt. Sikesa, alt. 4—5000 ft., Aitchison.— 
Disrazs, Affghan., Persia, Syria. . 
Leaves 6—12 by i-i in. Scape 10-24 in., simple, stout. Raceme 6-12 in. ; 
acts } in., scarious ; pedicels 1 in., fruiting 2} in. horizontal. Flowers 3} in. diam., 
segments white with a brown central band. Capsule 1 in. broad. Seeds black, 
Really S-winged.—Very variable in stature and in length and breadth of the 
ves, 
15. CHLOROPHYTUM, Ker. 
Characters of Anthericum, but capsule trigonous, deeply laterally 
3-lobed with flattened lobes.—Species about 40, tropical and subtropical. 
, The species are most difficult of circumscription owing to the great variability 
in the leaves and length and robustness of the scapes, and racemes. 
* Flowers in simple or shortly branched dense-fld. racemes. 
t Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, if fully developed. 
1 l. c. Heyneanum, Wall. Cat. 5060; scape stout shorter than the 
eves naked, racemes short dense-fld., anthers shorter than the filaments, 
cells of the oblong capsule 8-10-seeded. C. Heynei, Baker in Journ, Linn. 
* Xv. 322. CG breviscapum, Thw. Enum. 339. 
Q The Deccan PENINSULA, Heyne, &c.; Nilghiri hills, alt. 6000 ft. Clarke. 
FXLON, common in the central province. . 4i 
Root. fibres tuberous. Leaves 12-18 by 1-1} in., oblanceolate ; petiole 2~4 in. 
De i-lin.; bracts longer than the small flowers, pedicels 3-} in., jointed near 
Be tip. Perianth-segments + in., narrowly lanceolate. Capsule jin long. Seeds 
lack, shining, 
2. C. brevise J w Journ. Bot. ii. 141; scape 
V apum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. . ; 
naked Shorter than the "leaves, raceme dense-fid., anthers as long as the 
"ments, cells of the orbicular or obcordate capsule 1-3-seeded. Dalz. 
bs. Bomb. FI, 252, 
WI D HiwALAYA, at the foot of the hills (fl. only), Clarke. The CoNCAN, at 
» Daizel, 
00t- fibres tuberous, Leaves 12 by 4-14 in., linear-lanceolate, broadly petioled, 
ba Sins often crispulate. Scape stout, 3-6 in., rarely branched; raceme ge in., 
cts shorter than the flowers; pedicels 3-3 in., jointed above pen E e. 
Macy rtg ments i-i in., linear-oblong. Capsule iin. broad, seeds subglobose, 
ck, "P^que.—Differs from C. attenuatum in the broader leaves and short scape. 
3c arundin j imn. Soc. xv. 323; in 
^ aceum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Bo 1 
s" Ge ron. 1876, 260 ; scape usually tall naked, raceme elongate simple 
orbi ortly branched, anthers longer than the filaments, cells of the smal 
cular capsule 3—4-seeded. Phalangium alatum, Herb. Ham. in Wall. 
