274 uitiacez (Baker). [ Asparagus. 
flat, very acute, glabrous, 4-1 in. long; flowers solitary, hermaphro- 
dite, shortly pedicellate; perianth % in. long; segments linear- 
oblong; stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; berry subglobose, 
8-seeded. 
WestzEn Recion: Great Namaqualand ;, near Aus, Marloth, 1538! 
Ill, BEHNIA, Didrichs, 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth infundibuliform, gamophyllous; 
tube long; segments subequal, ovate, spreading. Stamens 6, in- 
serted at the middle of the perianth-tube; filaments short, thick; 
anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing introrsely. Ovary 
contracted at the base into a short gynophore, 3-celled; ovules few 
in a cell; style short; stigmas 3, spreading. Berry globose, fleshy. 
Seeds subglobose ; testa black ; albumen horny. 
DistRis. Endemic; monotypic. 
1. B. reticulata (Didrichs. in Viddensk. Meddel. Kjoben. 1854, 
183); stems glabrous, slender, woody, terete, unarmed, copiously 
branched, sarmentose; branchlets flexuose; leaves alternate, sessile, 
ovate, acute, 2-3 in. long, firm in texture, green, glossy, broadly 
rounded at the base, furnished with a distinct midrib and 5-7 
strongly marked vertical veins on each side of it, connected by close 
distinct cross-veinlets ; flowers in simple or slightly compound cymes 
from the axils of the upper leaves; bracts persistent, scariose, ovate- 
lanceolate; pedicels 4 in. long, articulated at the apex; perianth 
greenish, } in. long ; segments } as long as the tube ; stamens and 
style not exserted beyond the tip of the perianth-segments; berry 
2-1 in, diam. Ruscus reticulatus, Thunb. Prodr. 13; Fl. Cap. edit. 
Schult. 38; Willd. Sp. Plant. iv. 876; Kunth, Enum. v. 276. 
Dictyopsis Thunbergii, Harv. in Bot. Mag. t. 5638; Cape Gen. edit. 
2,406. Hylonome reticulata, Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xiv. 561, 
viz Webb. 
Sours Arerroa : without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Reaion: Uitenhage, Zeyher, 5421! Port Elizabeth Div.; Cragga 
Kamma, Burchell, 4554! Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, Cooper, 8268 ! 
Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3800! Albany Div.; Hutton! 
Stutterheim Div.; Kabousie, 8000-3500 ft., Murray in Herb. 1809! 
British Kaffraria, Cooper, 189! , Murray in Herb, MacOwan, 
CenTRAL ReGion : Somerset Div., Zeyher! Bowker ! 
Katanant Reeion: Transvaal; woods berton, in, 517! 
Heute Bag week aT igus noe 
Eastern Region: Natal; coast-land, up to 1000 ft., Sutherland! Inanda, 
Wood, 204! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1266! 3256! 
IV. DRACENA, Vand. ~ 
Flowers hermaphrodite. _ Perianth cylindrical, gamophyllous ; tube 
cylindrical or campanulate ; segments linear, spreading or reflexing. 
