Asphodelus. | CXL, LILIACEH (BAKER). 477 
A. microcarpus, Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 513, fig. 1116, non Viv. 
A. parviflorus, Wight, Ic. t. 2062. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Berber, Kotschy, 356! 357! and without precise locality, 
Bent ! 
Also in the Canaries, Peninsular India, and Mauritius. 
12. ACROSPIRA, Welw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 787. 
Perianth elongated, subpolyphyllous; segments lanceolate, subequal, 
ascending, 3—5-nerved on the back. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of 
the perianth-segments ; filaments short, rather flattened ; anthers large, 
linear, basifixed, spirally recurved at the tip when fading. Ovary sub- 
globose, sessile ; ovules many in a cell, superposed ; style long, subulate, 
slightly declinate; stigma capitate. Fruit and seeds unknown. 
Endemic. Monotypic. 
1. A. asphodeloides, Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot. i. 255, t. 34, figs. 4-7. Rootstock thick, oblique ` root-fibres many, 
slender. Leaves 5-6 in a radical rosette, firm, ensiform, glabrous, 
2-3 ft. long, 1-1} in. broad low down. Peduncle very long, furnished 
with many reduced leaves. Racemes 1-1} ft. long; simple or furnished 
with 1-2 short branches at the base; lower flowers 3—4 in a cluster; 
pedicels short, unequal; bracts small, ovate. Perianth white, 9—10 lin. 
long ; segments A in. broad. Anthers yellow, 3—4 in. long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; frequent on high rocky ground, 
Welwitsch, 3777! 3778! 3779! 
13. ANTHERICUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 788. 
Perianth persistent, polyphyllous; segments subequal, 3—5-nerved 
on the back, spreading from the base. Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter 
than the perianth ; filaments smooth or scabrous ; anthers linear, basi- 
fixed, dehiscing down the face. Ovary globose, sessile ; ovules few in a 
cell, superposed; style subulate; stigmas small, capitate. Capsule 
oblong-trigonous, not deeply lobed, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds angular, 
not compressed ; testa black, opaque; albumen cartilaginous ; embryo 
cylindrical. Rootstock not bulbous ` root-tibres slender, often producing 
small tubers. Leaves in a basal rosette, linear. Inflorescence racemose, 
often panicled; pedicels usually articulated at the middle or apex; 
bracts persistent. Flowers small, white. 
Species 100, cosmopolitan, concentrated in Tropical and South Africa, 
Subgenus PuataneiuM. Pedicels articulated at the 
middle, Filaments glabrous. 
Leaves subterete. 
Raceme simple 
Racemes panicled 
Leaves linear, glabrous. 
Perianth A in, long 
1. A. ustulatum. 
2. A. calyptrocarpum., 
3. A. inconspicuum. 
