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Asparagus.] LILIACEEZ (Baker). 259 
3. A. exuvialis (Burchell, Travels i. 432) ; stems slender, woody, 
glabrous, very zigzag, with the white epidermis peeling off; main 
leaves produced only in a small deltoid spur at the base; branches 
very zigzag, with deflexed branchlets; cladodia very slender, subulate, 
2-6 in a cluster, }~} in. long ; flowers 1-2-nate, axillary ; pedicels 
ya~ in. long, articulated below the middle, spreading or cernuous ; 
perianth campanulate, ~,-4} in. long; segments oblong, obtuse ; 
stamens $ the length of the perianth-segments ; berry small, globose. 
Bresl. Diss. No. 40; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 337 ; Kunth, 
Enum. v.74; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 608. 
Coast Recton: Malmesbury Div. ; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 822! Uiten- 
hage Div.; near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 607! 4157! (a dwarfed, suberect 
variety with crowded branches). 
Katanari Recion: Griqualand West; along the Vaal River, Burchell, 1768! 
oe ay Town, Burchell, 1854! Bechuanaland; Kosi Fontein, Burcheli, 
4 A. crispus (Lam. Encyc. i. 295); main stem very slender, 
very weak, glabrous, sarmentose, very flexuose ; leaves of the main 
stem with a minute, adpressed, deltoid spur; branchlets very slender, 
curved, defiexed ; final internodes },—, in. long ; cladodia ascending, 
2-3-nate, subulate or rather flattened, }-j in. long ; flowers axillary, 
solitary ; pedicels }-1 in. long, articulated near the tip; perianth 
campanulate, 1 in. long; segments lanceolate, reflexing from halfway 
down ; stamens half as long as the perianth-segments; anthers 
minute, globose; ovary ovoid, narrowed into a short style; berry 
subglobose, 4 in. diam., 5-6-seeded. Poir. Encyc. Suppl. i. 482; Bresl. 
Diss. No. 22; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 326; Kunth, Enum. 
v.73; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 607. A. decumbens, Jacq. 
Hort. Schoenbr.i. 51, t.97; Bresl. Diss.No. 21. Asparagopsis decum- 
bens, Kunth, Enum. v.77. Asparagus flecuosus, Thunb. Prodr. 66 ; 
Fil. Cap. edit. 2, ii. 332; Kunth, Enum, v.74. Medeola triphylla, 
Thibaud MSS. A. sinensis, Hort. 
Coast Reaton : Clanwilliam Div., Zeyher ! Malmesbury Div. ; near Hopefield, 
Bachmann, 814! Table Mountain, Ecklon, 93b! Bolus, 4753! Simons Bay, 
Wright! George Div.; Outeniqua, Thunberg! Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg 
Range, Cooper, 3252! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 3254! 
5. A. virgatus (Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 214) ; stems fascicled, 
erect, very much branched, 3-6 ft. long; main stem stiffly erect, 
simple in the lower half; branches slender, angled ; largest leaves 
with only a minute deltoid spur; final branchlets very slender, 
straight, ascending, with internodes 3-} in. long ; cladodia 1-3-nate, 
terete, ascending, channelled down the face, mucronate, mode- 
rately firm in texture, }-} in. long; pedicels axillary, 1—2-nate, 
3-1 in. long, articulated below the middle; perianth campanulate ; 
segments linear-oblong, spreading from the base; stamens nearly as 
long as the perianth-segments; anthers }-} the length of the 
filaments; berry globose, bright scarlet, } in. diam., 1-seeded. 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 606. 
VaR. f, capillaris (Baker, loc. cit.); cladodia rather longer, more slender and 
more copiously developed, 
