Tas. 5093. 
SANSEVIERA cy.uinprica. 
Tf. Terete-leaved Bowstring Hemp. 
Nat. Ord. ASPARAGINEZ.—HEXxaNDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium corollaceum, tubulosum, rectiusculum, usque ad me- 
dium 6-fidum, deciduum ; laciniis subspathulato-linearibus, obtusis, uninerviis, 
eequalibus, patentissimis (reflexis, Gawl.). Stamina 6, fauce perigonii inserta, 
exserta, patula (patentissima, Gawl.). Filamenta filiformia. Anthere biloculares, 
lineari-oblonge, apice bilobe, basi bifidee, dorso medio affixee, introrsee. Ovarium 
liberum, sessile, oblongum, trigonum? (trilobum, Rowd.), triloculare; ovwla in 
loculis solitaria, sessilia, adscendentia, anatropa. Colwmna stylina terminalis, fili- 
formis, erecta, stamina superans. Stigma capitatum, integrum. Bacce 1-3, 
leviter unite, singule, globose, carnose, monosperme. Semen globosum. 
Embryo in basi albuminis ad latus exterius locatus.—Plantz acaules, perennantes, 
stolonifere, Rhizoma crassum, repens. Folia radicalia plurt- vel bi-faria, lanceolata, 
crassa atque dura, carne fibrosa, sepe fasciata, basi vaginantia. Scapus e centro 
foliorum prodiens, bracteatus, simplex, apice racemoso-multiflorus. Hlores per 
4-6 fasciculato-congesti, bracteolati, viridulo-albi vel viriduloflavidi ; pedicellis 
supra medium articulatis. Perigonium ast in pedicellum attenuatum. Kunth. 
SANSEVIERA cylindrica ; foliis teretibus acuminatis solidis, scapo radicali, racemo 
composito elongato acuminato, sepalis linearibus inferne in tabum approxi- 
matis demum apice revolutis, staminibus longe exsertis. 
SANSEVIERA cylindrica. Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 349 (name only). 
Sansgeviera Angolensis. Wellwitsch, MSS. 
About three years since there were received at the Foreign 
Office, and transferred to the Admiralty, samples of a peculiar 
fibre and cordage under the name of //¢, said to be derived from 
a new plant at the Portuguese settlement, Angola, west coast of 
Africa. These were accompanied by some apparently living 
plants, which were placed in the cellars of the Foreign Office, 
and by the kindness of our valued friend, G. Lenox-Coningham, 
Esq., forwarded to Kew, where they soon recovered, and have 
since flowered. The habit of the plant was that of Sanseviera, 
but the leaves very dark-coloured, and quite terete and solid in 
the interior, very unlike any known species of that genus. My 
duties at the Paris Exhibition of 1858 led me to the careful in- 
JANUARY Ist, 1859. 
