476 CXL. LILIACEZ (BAKER). [ Bulbine. 
2. B. alooides, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 372? Leaves in a dense 
basal rosette, fleshy, lanceolate, 4—5 in. long. Peduncle longer than the 
leaves. Raceme simple, cylindrical, 4 ft. long, dense except towards 
the base; pedicels }- in. long; bracts small, lanceolate. Perianth 
bright yellow, } in. long. Stamens more than half as long as the 
perianth. Style reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments.—Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 348. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Chiradzulu, 
Meller ! 
Is perhaps distinct from the Cape plant figured by Dillenius and in Bot. Mag. 
t. 1317, but our material is very scanty. 
3. B. platyphylla, Baker in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 468. Rootstock 
thick, globose, crowned with numerous fibres. Leaves 10-12 super- 
posed on a short stem, oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, 4—6 in. long, 13-2 in. 
broad. Peduncle 1-1} ft. long. Raceme cylindrical, nearly 1 ft. long; 
pedicels ascending, 1-1 in. long; bracts minute. Perianth yellow, Z in. 
long; segments oblong. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uniamwezi; Gonda, Bohm, 21! 
No specimen at Kew. 
11. ASPHODELUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 782. 
Perianth not cut down to the very base, as in Anthericum ; segments 
6, oblong, subequal, spreading from above the base. Stamens 6, shorter 
than the perianth, inserted at the base of the segments; filaments 
dilated and connivent at the base; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing 
longitudinally. Ovary sessile, globose, 3-celled; ovules 2 in a cell, 
collateral ; style subulate, slightly declinate ; stigma terminal, minute. 
Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. ` Seeds often solitary, angled; testa 
crustaceous, grey or black, rugose; albumen cartilaginous; embryo 
cylindrical.—Annual or perennial herbs. Rootstock not bulbous. 
Leaves all radical, subulate. Racemes simple or branched ; pedicels 
solitary, articulated; bracts membranous. Flowers white; segments 
keeled with brown. 
Species 6, natives of South Europe and the Mediterranean region, extending to 
Northern India, Nubia, and Mauritius. ; 
1. A. fistulosus, Linn. var. tenuifolius, Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xv. 272. Annual. Leaves many ina dense basal rosette, subulate, 
erect, fistular, 6-9 in. long, tapering to the apex. Peduncle shorter 
than the leaves. Panicle much-branched; racemes lax, ascending; 
pedicels short, articulated at the middle; bracts small, membranous, 
ovate. Perianth 4-4 in. long. Capsule globose, 4 in. diam. ; valves 
transversely grooved.—A. tenuifolius, Cav. Anal. Cienc. Nat. iii. 46, t. 27, 
fig. 2; Icon. vi. 63, t. 587, fig. 2; Kunth, Enum. iv. 558. A. intermedis, 
Hornem. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. 131. A. æstivus, Reich. Pl. Crit. t. 451. 
