434 CXL. LILIACES (BAKER). | Asparagus. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: near Lake Ngami, common throughout 
the district from the Orange River to the Cunene River, Schinz ! 
Also in South Africa. 
31. A. racemosus, Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 152. A climbing shrub. 
Branches terete, woody, glabrous; branchlets copious, spreading. 
Leaves produced at the base into a pungent spur. Cladodia 2-6 in 
a cluster, subulate or slightly flattened, LA in. long. Racemes solitary 
or fascicled, lax, 1-2 in. long; pedicels 4—} in. long, articulated at the 
middle; bracts minute, membranous. Perianth white, ;4,—} in. long; 
segments spreading. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth. Berries 
usually 1-seeded, 1-1 in. diam.— Wight, Ic. t. 2056; Baker in Journ. 
Linn, Soc. xiv. 623 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 169 ; Schweinf. in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 76. A. petitianus, A. Rich. Tent. EL 
Abyss. ii. 320. Asparagopsis abyssinica, Kunth, Enum. v. 101. 
Upper Guinea. Ashanti; Akroful, Cummins, 31! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Mersa Sheikh Barud, Schweinfurth, 504! Eritrea: 
Geleb, 4800-5800 ft., Schweinfurth, 1118; Amba, 6100 ft., Schweinfurth, 1391! 
‘Lalamba Peak, near Keren, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth, 963. Saganeiti, 7100 ft., 
Schweinfurth, 1236. Abyssinia: Aferbeine, Roth, 550! Mount Semayata, Schimper, 
874! and without precise locality, Schimper, 240! 725! 1075! Somaliland: Valley 
of the River Ruspoli, Riva, 851! British East Africa: Madi, in woods, Speke & 
Grant, 38! Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 10498! Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 8874! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda and Huilla; in thickets, Welwitsch, 3848! 
Sa 3850! 8855! German’ South-west Africa: Amboland; Grootfontein, Schinz, 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk! German East Africa: Usambaro; Mascheua, 
Holst, 3488! between Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, 3000 ft., Volkens, 2034! Lake 
Tanganyika, Cameron! British Central Africa: Urungu; Niomkolo, near Lake 
Tanganyika, Carson ! Ngamiland; Nakalechwe, Lugard, 25a! 
Also in Tropical Asia, 
32. A. Buchanani, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1893, 211. A much- 
branched climbing shrub, with slender glabrous branchlets. Leaves pro- 
duced into a small pungent spur. Cladodia 2—6 in a cluster, narrowly 
linear, rigid, 1-nerved, ł in. long. Racemes copious, lateral, lax, 14-2 in. 
long ; pedicels erecto-patent, rather longer than the flowers, articulated 
at the tip; bracts minute, persistent, ovate-lanceolate. Perianth yẹ in. 
long; segments spreading from the base. Stamens as long as the 
perianth ; anthers small, globose. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; on dry hills at 4000-5000 ft.» 
Scott-Elliot, 8196! Portuguese East Africa: Lupata, on the River Zambesi, Kirk ! 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Blantyre, Buchanan! Namasi River, Cameron, 
23! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1503! 
33. A. ethiopicus, Linn. Mant. 63. A climbing shrub. Branches 
woody, terete, glabrous; branchlets angled, sulcate, curved. Leaves 
produced at the base into a pungent spine. Cladodia 3-6 in a cluster, 
linear, moderately firm, distinctly costate, 4—1 in. long. Racemes lax, 
axillary, 2-3 in. long; pedicels 4—4 in. long, articulated at the middle ; 
bracts minute, ovate or lanceolate. Perianth white, fragrant, as m. 
