270 LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Asparagus. 
perianth; anthers globose, very minute; ovary pedicellate; style 
very short. — 
Eastern Recion: Natal, Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
34. A. sarmentosus (Linn. Sp. Plant. 314) ; stems woody, multi- 
sulcate, suberect or twining; prickles deflexed, pungent ; branchlets 
numerous, slender, square, not zigzag, spreading or ascending, inter- 
nodes very short ; phyllocladia linear, rigid, mucronate, 3—{ in. long, 
solitary unless at the tip of the branchlets, flat on both faces, bright 
green, furnished with a distinct midrib; racemes 1-3 in. long, 
spreading from the woody branches; lower pedicels 1,—} in. long, 
articulated about the middle; bracts minute, scariose; perianth 
zz in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, spreading widely; stamens 
nearly as long as the perianth; anthers minute, globose; berry 
globose, 1-seeded,} in. diam. Miller, Dict. edit. viii. No. 10; Willd. 
Sp. Plant. ii. 155; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit, 2, ii. 275; Bresl. Diss. 
No. 18; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xiv. 625. <Asparagopsts 
sarmentosa, Kunth, Hnum. v. 97. 
Vaz. £, comatus (Baker, loc. cit.); stems twining; racemes lengthened out 
with phyllocladia produced from some of the nodes, especially the upper ones. 
A. sarmentosus, Red. Lil. t. 460.— A. aculeatus maximus sarmentosus seylanicus, 
Herm. Hort. Acad, Lug. Bat. 63, eum icone. - 
Var. y, densiflorus (Baker, loc. cit.); stems suberect; branchlets short, 
crowded, ascending; phyllocladia linear, rigid, ascending, about 4 in. long. 
Asparagopsis densiflora, Kunth, Enum. v. 96. 
Vaz. 3, Kunthii (Baker, loc. cit.); stems twining; phyllocladia not so close as 
in the other forms and larger (about an inch long). Asparagopsislancea, Kunth,” 
Enum. v. 104, excl. syn, 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Var. 3, Grey / 
Coast Recion: Var, B, Albany Div., Cooper, 3251! Var. y, near the Zwart- 
kops River, Ecklon and Zeyher, 1061! Alexandria Div.; between Rautenbachs 
Drift and Addo Drift, Burchell, 4208! Stutterheim Div. ; Kabousie Mountain, 
3500 ft., Murray in Herb. MacOwan! British Kaffraris, Cooper, 192! 402! 
=. ’ Knysna Div. ; “ Kaatjes Kraal,’’ in the forest and by the rivulet, Burchell, 
CentRaL Rzcion: Alexandria Div.; Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3383! 
Somerset Div.; Commadagga, Burchell, 3302! Var. 8, Somerset Div.; sides of 
Bosch Berg, 3500 ft., MacOwan, 1772! Var. y, Somerset Div.; upper part of 
Bruintjes Hoogte, Burchell, 3061! and without precise locality, Bowker / 
Katanagi ReGion: Orange Free State, Cooper, ! z 
Eastern Region: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1626! and without precise locality, 
Sutherland ! Var. 6, Griqualand East; mountains near Kokstad, 4300 ft., 
Tyson, 3158! 
35. A. oxyacanthus (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 625); stems 
woody, terete, straight, densely pubescent; prickles pungent, 
deflexed ; phyllocladia produced from the stout woody stems, solitary, 
linear, mucronate, erecto-patent, rigid in texture, bright green, 
1-nerved, 1-1} in. long, 1-2 in. broad ; racemes produced from the 
woody stems, dense, 1-14 in. long; pedicels very short, articulated 
near the tip, bracts lanceolate, white, scariose, } in, long; perianth 
campanulate, 1; in. long; segments oblong, obtuse; stamens 
nearly as long as the perianth; anthers minute, globose. 
Cznteat Region: Albany, Bowie! Somerset, Bowker! 
