334 OLVI. LILIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) — [Chlorophytum. 
Cat. 5056. Anthericum tuberosum, Herb. Heyne. Ornithogalum indicum, 
Konig mss. 
Eastern HIMALAYA, Sikkim, alt. 1-4000 ft. J. D. H. Bhotan, Griffith. 
Assam, Hamilton. BEHAR at Monghir, Wallich, on Parusnath, J. D. H. BURMA, 
at Prome, Wallich. te or 
Root-fibres cylindric. Leaves 6-18 by 14-2 in., oblanceolate, obtuse acute or 
acuminate, usually narrowed into a broad petiole. Scape 6-20 in. stout; race 
3-8 in.; bracts $-} in. or lower longer pedicels 4-3 in. jointed in the m og 
Perianth-segments 1— in. lanceolate, white. Capsule $ in. broad 2-lobed at the tip 
and base. Seeds } in. diam., suborbicular, flat, black.—In small specimens the leaves 
are narrower and broadest at the base. 
4. C. glaucum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 142; géien 
glaucons, scape longer than the leaves 2-3-sheathed, racemes long stov 
ense-fld., bracts longer than the flowers erect bases cymbiform, filamen 
longer than the anthers, cells of the suborbicular capsule 2—4-seeded. 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 252; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 324. 
The Concan ; on the Ghats, rare, Dalzell, &c. 1 
Root-fibres cylindric. Leaves 12-18 by 1-2 in., usually recurved, narrowly 
oblanceolate. Scape 1-2 ft., simple, sheaths narrowly lanceolate ; raceme 6-12 th. 
unbranched; bracts green; pedicels } in., jointed above the middle. Periant 
segments 4-} in., white; filaments papillose ; anthers twisted after flowering. Capsu 
1-1 in. broad, top 2-lobed. Szeds 3-1 in. broad, flat, orbicular, opaque. 
tt Leaves linear or ensiform not or hardly contracted into a petiole. 
5. C. tuberosum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 332; leaves sessile 
usually ensiform falcately recurved, scape short or tall, flowers Kr 
anthers as long as the papillose filaments recurved finally revolute, cells o 
the oblong rarely orbicular retuse capsule 4—6-seeded. C. anthericoideum, 
Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. ii. (1850) 141: Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. E, 
251. Phalangium tuberosum, Wight Ic. t. 2036; Kunth Enwm.1v. 598 “ 
part.) P. ornithogaloides, Schweinf. Biltr. P.alatum, Wall. Cat. 5056.0. 
Anthericum tuberosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 149, et Ic. in Herb. Kew; Cor. 
Pl. ii. 20 (not t. 138). A. ornithogaloides, Hochst. in A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 
Abyss. ii. 232. 
The DECCAN PENINSULA and CENTRAL INDIA, common from the Northern 
Circars, and the Concan to Travancore. Burma; at Prome, IWalich.— DISTRIB. 
Abyssinia. : 
Root-fibres cylindric and tuberous. Leaves 8 in. to 2 ft. by 3-4 in. (to 4 A 
Rozb.), margins crisped. Scape 6 in. to 8 ft. with a small sheath; raceme short, 
simple or shortly branched ; bracts 1-2 in., white; pedicels 3 in., stout, jointed bel 
the middle ; perianth-segments 1-$ in. long, oblong ; stamens much shorter than t t 
perianth. Capsule j-i in. long. Seeds irregularly orbicular, opaque.— The larger. 
flowered Indian species and clearly the plant described by Roxburgh as having flowers 
as large as a snowdrop, but not that figured in the Cor. PL, which is C. a¢tenuatum; 
his drawings of both are at Kew, and both named tuberosum. 
6. C. khasianum, Hook. f.; scape tall naked simple or branched, 
racemes rather dense-fld., bracts shorter than the flowers, anthers elonga" 
straight longer than the filaments, cells of large oblong 2-lobed capsule 
4-6-seeded. C. nepalensis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 330 (in part). 
Kuasta Hrs, alt. 3-6000 ft. Gri h, &c. 
Leaves 10-24 by 4-4 in., linear, flat. yo 2-3 ft., sometimes 4 in. diam., smooth, 
branches short ; racemes 6-10 in., pedicels 1-3 in., erect, jointed above the man” 
