432 CXL. LILIACEE (BAKER). [| Asparagus. 
long, often absent from the floriferous nodes. Flowers umbellate, often 
produced from the tip of short branchlets; pedicels 4 in. long, articu- 
lated at the middle. Perianth very small; segments not spreading. 
Stamens nearly as long as the perianth. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Manganja Hills, at 
Magomero, Meller ! 
26. A. irregularis, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 620. A 
climbing shrub. Branches slender, flexuose, terete, glabrous ; branch- 
lets many, ascending. Leaves produced at the base into a small pungent 
spur. Cladodia subulate, slender, }~} in. long, 3-6 in a cluster from 
the nodes, more numerous at the top of the branchlets, absent altogether 
from many of the flowering nodes. Flowers often several in a cluster; 
pedicels 4-1 in. long, articulated below the middle. Perianth yy in. 
long ; segments not spreading. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, at the 
foot of Mount Chiradzulu, Kirk ! 
27. A. asiaticus, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 1, 313; Mant. 366. A 
much-branched climbing shrub. Main stems woody ; branches copiously 
pinnate ; branchlets short. Leaves produced at the base into a deflexed 
pungent spine. Cladodia 6-15 in a cluster, subulate, not very slender, 
4-4 in. long. Flowers often several in an axillary cluster; pedicels 
4-} in. long, articulated below the middle. Perianth 4 in. long; seg- 
ments permanently ascending. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth. 
Ovules several in a cell. Berry the size of a pea, usually 1-seeded.— 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 618, and in PL Cap. vi. 265; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 168; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 
App. ii. 77. A. mitis, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 319. A. scaberulus, 
A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 320. A. Steudneri, Schweinf. in Pl. 
Geo Afr. Exsic. No. 309. Asparagopsis Willdenowii, Kunth, Enum. 
v. 86. 
Nile Zand. Nubia: Mount Erkowit, near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 309! 
Eritrea: Keren, Beccari, 36! Abyssinia: Ankober, Roth! Doka Keit, Roth, 549! 
near Adowa, Schimper, 296! and without precise locality, Schimper, 181 1 240! 728! 
1431! Somaliland, Mrs. Lort-Phillips! British East Africa: Wanderolo; near 
Lake Nakuru, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6840! east side of Lake Albert Edward, Scott- 
Elliot, 8071! 
Mozamb, Dist. Lake Tanganyika, Cameron! Portuguese East Africa : 
Quilimane, Stuhlmann, 613 ! 614! Zambesi River; Lupata, Kirk! near Tete, Kirk ! 
Also in South Africa, Arabia, and Tropical Asia, ~ 
28. A. angolensis, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 254. 
A much-branched subscandent shrub. Branches pubescent, flexuose ; 
branchlets numerous, erecto-patent. Leaves of the branches with a 
large deflexed pungent spur. Cladodia densely fascicled, very slender, 
rigid, subulate, 4—4 in. long. Flowers many in a fascicle ; pedicels 4 in. 
long, articulated near the base. Perianth funnel-shaped, $ in. long. 
