| Testudinaria.] DioscorEacex (Baker), 258 
2. T. sylvatica (Kunth, Enum. v. 443); rootstock and habit as 
in the other species; leaves deltoid, deeply cordate, usually 
shallowly 3-lobed, 2-3 in. long and. broad ; apical mucro 3-4 in. 
long; male racemes simple, shortly peduncled, 2-3 in. long; 
pedicels 4-4 in. long, erecto-patent or patent with a small deltoid 
bract at the base and usually a bracteole at the middle; expanded 
flower 3 in. diam. ; segments oblanceolate, obtuse; stamens much 
shorter than the perianth-segments ; female flowers in lax simple 
racemes ; pedicels shorter than those of the male flowers; ovary 
linear-oblong, t-} in. long ; capsule obovate, under an inch long. 
Dioscorea sylvatica, Ecklon. Exsic. D. hederifolia, Griseb. in Endl. 
and Mart. Fl. Bras. iii. 42. 
Coast Reeton : Humansdorp Div.; north side of Kromme River, 
Burchell, 4855 ! Uitenhage, Zeyher, 892! Port Elizabeth Div.; at Oragga 
Kamma, Burchell, 4519! Albany Div.; Howisons Poort, near Grahamstown, 
Zeyher, 4152! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 64! 
Centra Recion ; Somerset, Bowker / 
Katanari Region: Transvaal ; hillside near Edwin Bray Battery, Barberton, 
2200 ft., Galpin, 1185! 
Eastzen Recion: Transkei; rocky banks of Bashee River, Drége, 44992 ! 
Tembuland ; between Bashee River and Morley, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 4499b! 
Natal; Inanda, Wood, 420! 780! 1329! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
508! Cooper, 1186! 3243! Sanderson /- 
This was supposed by Grisebach by mistake to be Brazilian. 
Orper CXXXVII. LILIACEZ. 
(By J. G. BaxeEr.) 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite and regular, rarely unisexual or 
slightly irregular. Perianth inferior, corolline, with 6 biseriate 
subequal segments, either free to the base or united in a tube. 
Stamens 6, placed opposite the perianth-segments ; filaments usually 
filiform ; anthers didymous, basifixed or dorsifixed, dehiscing by 
introrse, extrorse or lateral slits, rarely by terminal pores. Ovary 
superior, 3-celled; ovules collateral or superposed, rarely solitary, 
usually anatropous, rarely orthotropous; style entire or trifid ; 
stigmas rarely capitate. Fruit capsular or baccate. Seeds with 
copious fleshy or horny albumen, enclosing a straight or curved 
embryo. 
Erect herbs, or sometimes climbers or erect shrubs ; rootstock often bulbous ; 
leaves various in shape and texture, thick and fleshy in the Aloinea, often all 
radical; inflorescence umbellate, spicate, racemose or panicled ; bracts various. 
DistRis. Cosmopolitan. Genera 187. Species above 2000. d 
Series], AsPARAGACER. Frutt baccate. Anthers with introrse dehiscence, 
Tribe 1. SMILACEZ. Stems woody, climbing, Leaves normal, with 
reticulated veining. Ovules orthotropous. 
I, Smilax.— Flowers dioecious, umbellate. wig oe 
Tribe 2. A ms generally woody, climbing or erec Leaves 
ieleeana ecetles Gracaibacs on ahead cladodia in their axils. Perianth- 
segments distinct. 
