264 LILIACER (Baker). { Asparagus. 
834; Bresl. Diss. 21; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 617, non 
Linn. herb. A. retrofractus, Wendl. Hort. Herren, t. 22, non Linn. 
Asparagopsis passerinoides, Kunth, Enum. v. 90. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Masson! Oldenburg! 
Coast Reaion: near Cape Town, Thunberg! Table Mountain, 1000-2000 ft., 
Drége! Lion Mountain, Burchell, 8451! Paarl Div.; hills by the Berg River, 
near Onderste Pont, below 500 ft., Drége! Tulbagh Div.; on the Wind-heuvel, 
Koedoes Mountains, Burchell, 1288/1! Uitenhage Div., Cooper, 15731 Zeyher, 
46! 
CentraL Reaion : Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuw Berg Range, 4000-5000 ft., 
Drége, 8591! 
Western Reeton: Little Namaqualand, between Kaus, Natvoet, and Doorn 
Poort, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 8593 ! 
The plant that represents A. capensis in the Linnean herbarium is A. asiaticus, 
20. A. densus (Soland. in Herb. Banks.); main stem woody, 
suleate, pubescent ; spines pungent, produced from the base of the 
clusters of final branchlets, which are densely fascicled ; cladodia 4-6 
in a. cluster, ascending, subulate, glabrous, strongly angled, }-} in. 
long ; flowers 2-4 in a cluster, from the tip of the final branchlets; 
pedicels very short; perianth campanulate, ~; in. long; segments 
oblong, obtuse; stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers very 
minute. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 616. 
Sourn Arnica: without locality, Auge / in the British Museum Herbarium. 
21. A. Nelsoni (Baker in Journ Linn. Soe. xiv. 617); main stem 
suberect, woody, densely pubescent; branches woody, erecto-patent, 
pungent at the tip; final branchlets in dense clusters, with a spine at 
the base; cladodia 3-6-nate, subulate, ascending, glabrous, pale 
green, 3-3 in. long; flowers produced only from the tips of the 
branchlets, nearly sessile; perianth small, campanulate. 
. Sovurn Arica: without locality, Nelson! in the British Museum Herba- 
um. 
Combines the branching of A. stipulaceus and the subsessile flowers of A. capensis. 
22. A Burchellii (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 618); stems 
woody, much-branched, terete, pale, glabrous ; branches woody, very 
zigzag ; prickles large, pungent, produced only from the base of the 
elusters of final branchlets, which are in dense bundles, and 3-1 in. 
long; eladodia generally 4-8-nate, subulate, ascending, distinctly 
mucronate, strongly angled, glabrous, 4,4 in. long; flowers produced 
only from the tip of the branchlets, generally solitary ; pedicels 98 — 
long as the cladodia; perianth campanulate, , in. long; segments 
oblong, obtuse ; stamens nearly as long as the perianth; berry small, 
1-seeded, 
Coast Reaion : Uitenhage Div., Cooper, 1574! her, 10! 
CentRaL ReGion : Somerset Div. ; by the Bink River, Burchell, 2962! 
2962/1! On stony hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 411! 
23. A. stipulaceus (Lam. Encyc. i. 297) ; a much-branched, sub- 
