Asparagus. ] LILIAcEz (Baker). 263 
pedicels 1-2-nate, 1-1 in. long, articulated below the middle ; 
perianth campanulate, ~, in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, 
spreading horizontally ; stamens nearly as long as the perianth- 
segments; ovules 5-6 in a cell; berry globose,} in. diam. Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiv. 615. Asparagopsis Thunbergii, Kunth, 
Enum. v. 85. A. Dregei, Kunth, Enum. v. 84. Asparagus albus, 
Thunb. Prodr. 66; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult, 333, non Linn. A. nitidus, 
Forster herb. 
‘Bourn A¥Frica: without locality, Forster ! Thunberg ! 
Coast Rreion: Malmesbury Div.; Saldanha Buy, Grey! Cape Div. ; 
Lions Rump, Burchell, 8453! Table Mountain and Devils Mountain, below 
1000 ft., Drége! Cape Flats, Burke! Stellenbosch Div.; between Hottentots 
Holland and Jonkers Valley, Burchetl, 8318! 
17, A. minutiflorus (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiv. 616) ; stems 
slender, woody, terete, multisuleate, pubescent, slightly flexuose ; 
prickles pungent, subulate, 3-1 in. long; branches short, crowded, 
stiff, slender, erecto-patent ; cladodia 3-10 in a cluster, slender, 
subulate, mucronate, rigid, }-2 in. long; flowers 1-2 in a cluster ; 
pedicels 2, in. long, articulated at the middle; perianth campann- 
late, J, in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, spreading widely ; 
stamens nearly as long as the perianth; ovules about 3 in a cell. 
Asparagopsis minutiflora, Kunth, Enum. v. 89. 
Eastern ReGION : Cafferland, Gill ! Delagoa Bay, Forbes! 
18. A. Cooperi (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 818); stems 
terete, glabrous, green, wide-climbing; prickles woody, spreading, 
pungent, 3 in. long; branches spreading, slender, copiously decom- 
pound, with patent branchlets ; eladodia very slender, subulate, often 
a dozen or more in a cluster, }—3 in. long; flowers axillary, 1—-3-nate ; 
pedicels 3 in. long, articulated below the middle; perianth campanu- 
late, ~; in. long; segments oblanceolate-oblong, spreading horizon- 
tally; stamens nearly as long as the perianth-segments; berry 
eee 2 in, diam., l-seeded. Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xiv. 
613. 
Cerrrat Recion: Somerset Diy. ; in woods on the sides of Bosch Berg, 2800— 
4000 ft., MacOwan, 1810! 
Originally described from specimens in the garden of Mr. Wilson Saunders in 
1871, collected by Mr. Thos. Cooper. 
19. A. capensis (Linn. Sp. Plant. 314); stems woody, copiously 
branched, suberect, terete; prickles large, spreading, pungent, one at 
the base of each fascicle of final branchlets; branches ascending, 
woody, rather flexuose; branchlets in dense clusters, {-1 in. long ; 
cladodia subulate, densely elustered, ascending, pale green, pubescent, 
distinctly mucronate, 3,—} in. long; flowers produced only from the 
tip of the branchlets, usually solitary, subsessile ; perianth campanu- 
late, 3 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse ; ovules 4-5 in a cell ; 
berry small, 1-seeded. Miller, Dict. edit. viii. No. 9 ; Jacq. Hort. 
Schoenbr. iii. 8, t. 266; Thunb. Prodr. 66; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult, 
