e, 
Tas. 8336. 
ALECTORURUS  yepoensts. 
Japan. 
Linracear. Tribe ASPHODELEAR. 
AveEctorunvs, Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo, vol. xxii. p. 14. 
Alectorurus yedoensis, Mukino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo, vol. xxii. p. 16; species 
unica. 
Herba perennis, glabra. Rhizoma breve, crassum. Folia 6-11, caespitosa, 
disticha, faleato-ensiformia, obtusa vel subacuta, firma, laevia, 11-55 em. 
longa, 0-7-2°5 cm. lata, supra vaginam articulata; costa inconspicua. 
Scapus aphyllus, 25-70 cm. longus, compressus, saepe anguste alatus; 
panicula pyramidalis ; flores ad ramos racemosim dispositi, dimorphi, 
alii staminibus longe exsertis, alii staminibus perianthio aequilongis; 
bracteae anguste lanceolatae, 2 mm. longae; bracteolae minutae, e basi 
* lato cuspidatae; pedicelli supra medium articulati. Perianthium cam- 
panulatum, dilute roseum; segmenta 6, 2-seriata, basi breviter connata, 
florum staminibus exsertis oblonga, concava, obtusa, leviter carinata, 
uninervia, 5 mm. longa; florum staminilus inclusis late elliptica, 8 mm. 
longa. Stamina 6; tilamenta 3 vel 10 mm. longa; antherae dorsifixae, 
ovatae, basi cordatae. Ovarium trilobum, glabrum; stylus stamina 
longiora superans, staminibus brevibus aequilongus; stigma minutum; 
ovula 2, collateralia, ascendentia. Capsula loculicida. Semina oblonga, 
trigona, basi pilis longis albis instructa.x—Anthericum yedoense, Maxim. ex 
Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. pp. 88, 529. Bulbinella yedoensis, 
Matsum. in Bot. Mag. Tokyo, vol. xv. 39, et Ind. Pl, Jap. vol. ii. parsi. p. 192. 
Dianella sp., Sav. in Som. Zusetz. ed. 2, vol. vi. n. 46.—C. H. Wricut, 
The graceful Asphodeline here figured, which is known 
in Japan, where it is a native, as the Keibi-ran, or Keibi 
“orchid,” has given some little trouble to students of 
Japanese plants. The late Dr. Savatier, dealing with a 
good Japanese figure of the species, at first thought that 
it might be a Dianella but subsequently abandoned this 
opinion in favour of that of the late Mr. Maximowicz who 
treated it as an Anthericum; it is under the name Anthe- 
ricum yedoense, bestowed on the plant by this eminent 
botanist, that the plant is generally known in gardens. 
Professor Matsumura, with ample reason, at a later date 
removed the plant from Anthericum, but, as Mr, Makino 
has more recently shown, Matsumura’s belief that our plant 
Septremssr, 1910. 
