4 HEMODORACES® (Baker). [ Dilatris. 
clasping, erect, lanceolate leaves ; flowers very numerous, arranged 
in a dense, short, corymbose panicle ; ovary densely clothed, as are the 
segments and branches, with soft, spreading, brown, gland-tipped 
hairs ; perianth-segments linear, brownish, 4-5 in. long ; stamens as 
long as the perianth-segments; capsule ovoid, densely hairy, % in. 
long; seed oblong, discoid, dull black, closely punctate. Thunb. 
Prodr. 10; Fl. Cap. i. 259; Lam. Ill. Gen, t. 34; Roem, et Schultes 
Syst. Veg. i. 483. 
Coast Region: Table Mountain and vicinity, Burchell, 530! Milne, 183! 
Pappe ! Villette! Riversdale Div., Langebergen, Burchell, 7071! 
IV. LANARIA, Ait. 
Perianth regular, with a tube above the ovary ; segments 6, sub- 
equal. Stamens 6, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube ; 
filaments filiform, shorter than the segments: anthers small, ovate- 
sagittate. Ovary inferior, except at the apex, 3-celled ; ovules twoin 
a cell, collateral ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. Cupsule subglobose, 
crowned by the persistent perianth, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed 
globose ; testa shining, black, crustaceous. 
Disrris. Endemic, 
1. L. plumosa (Ait, Hort. Kew, edit. 1,i, 462) ; rootstock woody, 
with a dense tuft of fleshy cylindrical root-fibres; leaves several, 
in a basal rosette, surrounded by the fibrous relics of the old ones, 
linear, glabrous, rigid, closely ribbed, 1-14 ft. long; stems 1-2 ft. 
long, with 2-3 reduced leaves; flowers in a dense panicle, with 
scorpioid cymose branches, beth branches and perianth densely and 
persistently coated with spreading, soft, plumose hairs ; perianth, 
including ovary, 4-4 in. long. Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. vii. 
294 ; Schnitzl. Iconogr. i. t. 62, fig. 5. Argolasia, Juss. Gen. 60. 
Augea, Retz. Obs. v. 3. 
Coast Reeion: Port Elizabeth Div., Leadmine River, Burchel/, 4606! 
Riversdale Div., Langebergen, Burchell, 6871! Uitenhage Div., Vanstadens- 
hoogte, MacOwan, 2088 ! 
V. SANSEVIERIA, Thunb. 
Perianth glabrous ; tube long, cylindrical ; segments 6, subequal, 
spreading, linear. Stamens 6, inserted at the throat of the perianth- 
tube ; filaments filiform; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary free, 
3-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style long filiform ; stigma capi- 
tate. Pericarp bursting before the seeds ripen. Seeds 1-3, globose ; 
testa fleshy. 
Rhizome thick, wide-creeping. Leaves rosulate from the nodes, rigid, flat, 
subterete, or terete, containing an abundant supply of strong fibre. Peduncle 
elongated, with only a few scariose bract-leaves. Flowers in a dense cylindrical 
raceme or spike, whitish ; pedicels articulated, usually fascicled. 
