Asparagus. | CXL. LILIACEA (BAKER). 429 
much shorter than the filaments. Berry the size of a small pea.— 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 613; Grant & Baker in Trans. Linn. 
mec, xxix. 161: t. 105, 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: interior districts, Rowland! Abeokuta, Irving, 70! 
Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1125! 
Nile Land. Nubia, Prince Paul William of Wurtemburg, Cienkowski. 
White Nile, Petherick! British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 
1400! 1513! ser. iii, 109! Denka Territory: Rek District, Schweinfurth, 1921! 
Madi, Speke & Grant! Uganda, Wilson, 41! 
Lower Guinea, Hereroland, Hopfuer, 65 (ex Schinz). 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: East shore of Lake Tanganyika, Scott- 
Elliot, 8285! Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi Delta ; Kongoni River, Kirk ! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; in woods between Blantyre and Matope, Scott ! 
Var. Daltoni, Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xiv. 613. Flowers smaller than in 
the type; segments narrower, subacute ; pedicels all abruptly deflexed, 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Rabba, on the River Niger, Dalton ! 
13. A. bechuanicus, Baker. A climber. Stems slender, woody, 
with close copiously pinnate slender glabrous branches. Leaves pro- 
duced at the base into a small pungent conical straight spur. Cladodia 
3—6-nate, rigid, setaceous, ascending, ZA in. long. Flowers herma- 
phrodite, solitary; pedicels } in. long, articulated below the middle. 
Perianth } in. long; segments oblong, ascending, white with a broad 
green keel. Stamens as long as the perianth; anthers oblong, minute, 
bright-yellow. Ovary globose ; styles not reaching up to the anthers. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Nakalechwe, Lugard, 25! 
14. A. Judtii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 44. A 
divaricate undershrub. Branches spreading, woody, pungent at the 
tip. Leaves produced at the base into straight subulate spines. 
Cladodia 3-6-nate, subulate, ł4—} in. long. Flowers 2—3-nate in the 
axils of the leaves. 
Lower Guinea, German South-west Africa : Great Namaqualand ; Hoachanas, 
Fleck, 901. 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
The locality is a little south of the Tropic, but there can be little doubt that the 
plant also occurs within the ‘Tropical limits. 
15. A. Schweinfurthii, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 616. A 
tall much-branched erect shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Branches long, 
straight ; branchlets many, ascending. Leaves produced at the base into 
small pungent spines. Cladodia 3-6 in a fascicle, rigid, subulate, 
ascending, 9-15 lin.long. Flowers in axillary pairs; pedicels ascending, 
4-4 in. long, articulated near the base. Perianth ;', in. long; segments 
not spreading. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth. 
Wile Land. Galabat: on the banks of the River Gendua, Schweinfurth, 29! 
16. A. namaensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 44. 
An erect much-branched undershrub. Branches and branchlets virgate. 
