336 CLVI. LILIACEE. (J. D. Hooker) [Chlorophytum. 
10. C. orchidastrum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 813; in Trans. Hort. 
Soc. vi. 79; scape tall naked paniculately branched, branches spreading, 
bracts small, flowers in distant pairs, cells of the broad small capsole 
l-seeded. Kunth Enum. iv. 603; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 925. C. 
Nimmonii, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 142; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 
259. Anthericum Nimmonii, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 990. Hartwegia 
Nimmonii, Dalz. mss. Phalangium oligospermum, Wight Ic. t. 2038. 
The Deccan PENINSULA, from the Concan southward to Travancore.— DISTRIB. 
Tonkin, Trop. Africa. 
Root-fibres tuberous. Leaves 12-24 by 14-4 in., elliptic-lanceolate. Scape 
1-3 ft., branches long ascending bracteate at the base ; bracts ovate; flowers 
geminate drooping ; pedicels 3-3 in. jointed about the middle. Perianth-segments 
i in, white. Capsule } in. diam., broader than long, 2-lobed at the tip. Seeds 
solitary, orbicular or oblong, flat, opaque. 
11. C. laxum, Pr. Prodr. 277; leaves subdistichous usually strongly 
recurved, scape filiform flexuous, flowers minute, anthers didymous many 
times shorter than the filaments, cells of broadly obcordate capsule 1 
seeded. Kunth Enum. iv. 603. OC. laxiflorum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
xv. 328; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 60. C. falcatum, Baker in Saund. Refug. 
Bot. t. 333. C. parviflorum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 141; Dalz. 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 251; Tw. Enum. 339. C. abyssinicum, Kotschy & Peyr. 
Pl. Tinn. 46. Phalangium falcatum, Wall. Cat. 5057; Kunth l. c. 600. 
P.? parviflorum, Wight Ic. t. 2309. Anthericum parviflorum, Benth. FI 
Hongk. 373. Ornithogalum falcatum, Herb. Wight. Nolina? javanica, 
Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 27 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 554. 
The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southward, common, and in CEYLON. 
—Distris. Borneo, China, Trop. Africa and Austral. . flat 
Root-fibres tuberous. Leaves 6-12 by 1-1 in., grass-like or conduplicate or gw 
rather rigid. Scape 1-12 in., suberect or arched; flowers j-1l in. apart; We 
lanceolate, equalling the pedicels which are jointed in the middle. Perianth white, 
segments Ä-Ä in. ; anthers green. Capsule Xin. diam. Seeds angular, de ™- diam. 
DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 
12. C. ACAULE, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 327; root fibres smaller, 
6-9 by 4-4 in. narrowly linear, flowers 2-5 in a sessile corymb at the bases 0 
leaves, fruiting pedicels erect 1—j jointed, capsule 1 in. oblong emarginate, ; 
turgid 3-5 seeded, seeds rather tumid ‘black opaque.—India, Jerdon.—The only 
specimen is flowerless. It is perhaps a state of C. laxum. 
, PHALANGIUM NIVEUM, Poiret Encycl. 248; Kunth Enum. iv. 599. Antheri 
niveum, Schult. f. Syst. vii. 480, from India, Sonnerat, with long very dense" 
spikes, snow-white bracts as long as the flowers and a scape 12-15 in. ; may 
attenuatum. 
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16. DIANELLA, Lamk. 
Roostock usually branched, and stoloniferous. Leaves rigid, distichous, 
linear, bases often equitant. Flowers in cymose panicles, nodding i 
pedicels jointed at the top. Perianth marcescent ; segment 6, distin 
spreading. Stamens 6, hypogynous, or the 3 inner on the bases 9 t 
segments, filaments much thickened ; anthers basifixed between the obe 
reflexed, opening by terminal pores or short slits. Ovary 3-celled ; sty! d 
filiform, stigma minute; cells 4-8-ovuled. Berry blue. “Seeds few, 0V% 
