Asparagus. | CXL. LILIACEZ (BAKER). 431 
produced from sterile nodes, articulated below the middle. Perianth 
$ in. long. Anthers oblong, much shorter than the filaments. Berry 
the size of a small pea.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 168. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; temperate region, in dry pastures at 
Catumba, Welwitsch, 3878 ! 
21. A. deflexus, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 254. A 
much-branched climbing shrub. Branches slender, glabrous, the 
lower deflexed; branchlets many, short. Leaves with a short deflexed 
pungent spur. Cladodia 6-10 ina cluster, subulate, very slender, {—} in. 
long. Flowers 1-2 axillary or 4-6 from the tip of the branchlets ; 
pedicels 4~4 in. long, articulated at the middle. Perianth 1 in. long; 
segments oblong-spathulate. Stamens distinctly shorter than the 
perianth ; anthers oblong, minute. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 3874! 
22. A. Nelsii, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 44. A 
much-branched undershrub. Branches woody, terete ; branchlets rigid, 
clothed with whitish pubescence ` upper internodes } in. long. Leaves 
produced at the base into hard deflexed brown spines. Cladodia 
fascicled, subulate, ł}—4 in. long. Flowers unknown. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Nels, 70, 
No specimen at Kew. 
23. A. mozambicus, Kunth, Enum. v.72. Stems erect, much- 
branched, glabrous. Branches spreading ; branchlets angled, glabrous. 
Leaves of the main branches produced into a short pungent spur at the 
base. Cladodia 6-7 or more in a cluster, capillary, curved, 4—3 in. long, 
2-3 times longer than the internodes, Flowers and fruit unknown.— 
Garcke in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 520; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xiv. 629. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Peters ! 
No specimen at Kew. 
24. A. Lugardi, Baker. A climbing shrub. Branches long, 
spreading, slender, green; branchlets distant, spreading, pubescent. 
Leaves produced into a pungent spur at the base. Cladodia many to 
a node, setaceous, very slender, 4 in. long. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
1-2 to a node; pedicels } in. long, articulated below the middle. 
Perianth white, 4 in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, keeled with 
brown. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers minute, oblong, 
bright yellow. Ovary turbinate; styles reaching up to the anthers. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland, near Lake Ngami, 
Lugard, 31! 
25. A. puberulus, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 618. A much- 
branched climbing shrub. Branches long, flexuose, terete, pubescent ; 
branchlets long, spreading, curved. Leaves produced at the base into 
pungent subulate deflexed spines. Cladodia 3-6 in a cluster, 4—4 in. 
