428 CXL, LILIACEH (BAKER). [Asparagus 
8. A. conglomeratus, Baker. Stems much-branched ; branches 
long, virgate, erecto-patent, pale green, pubescent ; internodes long S 
leaves without a pungent spur. Clusters of cladodia 1 in. diam. ; cladodia 
very numerous, slender, setaceous, rigid. Flowers many to a cluster, 
hermaphrodite ; pedicels + in. long, articulated near the base. Perianth 
white, } in. long; segments oblanceolate, reflexing. Stamens a little 
shorter than the perianth ; anthers minute, oblong ; filaments subulate. 
Ovary turbinate. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe, Lugard, 52! 
9. A. hereroensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 43. 
An erect very much branched undershrub; branches woody, terete, 
red-brown, glabrous, patent. Leaves spurred at the base. Cladodia 
fascicled, ascending, subulate, straight or curved, reaching more than 
l in. in length. Berries solitary in the axils of the leaves. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Fleck, 549. 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
Also in Great Namaqualand. 
10. A. equisetoides, Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot. i. 253. A much-branched shrub, with erecto-patent pinnate main 
branches and slender erecto-patent branchlets 4—1 ft. long. Leaves with 
a small deflexed pungent spur. Cladodia usually absent, rarely solitary, 
subulate, 4-} in. long, appressed to the branchlets. Flowers not seen, 
probably axillary. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in sandy ground on the banks of 
the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 3846! 3847! 
11. A. nudicaulis, Baker. An erect undershrub 3-4 ft. high, 
with stout main stems armed at the nodes with short deflexed pungent 
spines ; branches and branchlets many, ascending, tough, striated, pale- 
green, glabrous, the latter slender, distant, 2-6 in. long, with long inter- 
nodes. Cladodia entirely absent. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicels 
decurved, finally } in. long, articulated at the middle. Berry the size 
of a small pea, bright red. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro ; on steppes near Lake Chala, 
3000 ft., Volkens, 1806! 
No specimen at Kew. 
Nearly allied to the Cape A. denudatus, Baker. 
12. A. Pauli-Gulielmi, Solms in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. _Aithiop. 
203. A much-branched erect undershrub, 4—5 ft. high. Main stems 
woody ; branchlets long, slender, terete, glabrous or pubescent, ascending. 
Leaves of the main stem and branchlets furnished with a pungent 
uncinate woody spur. Cladodia 1—5 from a node, subulate, very ET 
ascending, AA in. long. Flowers solitary or in pairs, axillary ; pedice 
4-4 in. long, ascending or deflexed, articulated above the base. 
Perianth A.A. in. long; segments spreading. Anthers minute, oblong, 
