Tas. 7487. 
SANSE VIERIA ROXBURGHIANA. 
~ Native of the East Indies, 
Nat. Ord. Hamoporacrz.—Tribe OpH1opoGoNER. 
Genus Sansevierra, Thunb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 679.) 
SANSEVIERIA Rowburghiana; foliis 2-24 pedalibus anguste lineari-ensiformibus 
strictis erectis a basi ad apicem teretem obtusum sensim angustatis 
dorso rotundatis 7-9-costatis, supra (apice excepta) concavis striatis 
viridibus fasciatis rubro anguste marginatis, scapo foliis breviore, vaginis 
appressis acuminatis, racemo elongato gracili stricto anguste cylindraceo 
subdensifloro, floribus secus rachim teretem fasciculatis, fasciculis 3-6- 
floris, pedicellis brevibus basi bracteolatis, perianthii pallide flavo- 
virescentis, tubo 3-pollicari gracili lobis linearibus obtusis revolutis 
longiore. _ 
8. Roxburghiana, Schult. fil. Syst. Veg. vol. vii. p. 357. Kunth Enum. Pl. 
vol. v.p.18. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. (1875) p. 549. Hook. f. 
Flora Brit. Ind, vol. vi. p. 271. 
PS. lanuginosa, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p.160. Kunth l.c.19. Baker Zc. 
s. pe bong Roxb. Corom. Pl. vol. ii. p. 45, t. 184; Flor. Ind. vol. ii. p- 161 (non 
Widlid.). 
Sansevieria, Wall. Cat. n. 5054, et p. 215. 
PKatu Kapel, Rheede Hort. Malab. vol. xi. p. 88, t. 42. 
Mirva, Jones in As. Research. vol. iv. p. 271. 
It is a curious fact, that except Roxburgh’s excellent 
figure and description in the “ Plants of Coromandel,” 
published a century ago, and of which the description is 
repeated in his ‘‘ Flora Indica,” I can find no reliable 
account of this remarkable and economically useful plant 
in any Indian botanical work. Nor can this be accounted 
for by Roxburgh’s having assumed it to be the very different — 
S. zeylanica of Willdenow, for as far as India is concerned 
the history of that plant is as obscure as is that of 
S. Roxburghiana. A third Indian species (real or sup- 
posed) of Sansevieria, is S. lanuginosa, Willd. (Baker, 1. c.) 
for which the only authority is Rheede’s “ Hortus Mala- 
baricus,”” where it is figured (vol, xi. p- 83, t. 42), and 
described as having leaves with dorsal woolly strie, a 
character unknown in any other Species of the genus, and 
hence open to suspicion. In general appearance the 
Aveust Isr, 1896, 
