Draczna.] LILIACEZ (Baker). 275 
Stamens 6, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments 
elongated, filiform or slightly flattened; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, 
versatile, dehiscing introrsely. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-celled ; ovules 
solitary, erect ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate. Berry globose, 
often by abortion 1-2-seeded. Seeds globose or by pressure angled ; 
testa thick, often pulpy; albumen horny; embryo small. 
Stems woody, simple or branched, usually erect and stout, marked with the 
scars of the fullen leaves; leaves sessile and ensiform, or petioled and elliptic, 
closely veined; flowers racemose, white or greenish, often panicled; pedicels 
articulated ; bracts small, scariose, persistent. 
DistriB. Species about 50, spread through the tropical and subtropical zones 
of the Old World. 
1. D. hookeriana (K. Koch, Wochenschr. iv. 394, excl. patr.) ; 
stem 2-10 ft. long, usually simple ; leaves crowded towards its apex, 
sessile, ensiform, 2-3 ft. long, 1-14 in. broad, slightly narrowed to the 
base, moderately firm in texture, pale green, with a distinet whitish 
border, recurving from about the middle, tapering to a long point; 
midrib hidden before it reaches the apex; racemes in an ample erect 
panicle 13-2 ft. long; branches ascending, lower compound ; pedicels 
3—4-nate, articulated at the apex ; bracts white, scariose, ovate, 
persistent ; perianth greenish, about an inch long; segments about 
as long as tube ; stamens as long asthe perianth-segments ; filaments 
rather flattened ; anthers oblong, pale yellow, ~; in. long; berry 
1-3-seeded, yellow. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 527. D. 
Rumphti, Regel, Revis. 41, excl. syn. Cordyline Rumphii, Hook. in 
Bot. Mag. t. 4279, excl. syn. Sansevieria paniculata, Schinz in Durand 
and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afric. 141. 
Vaz. D. latifolia (Regel, Rev. 41); leaves 2-3 in. broad at the middle, much 
_ Barrowed to the base. Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot, t. 353. 
D. latifolia var, schmidtiana, Regel, Gartenfl. t. 1028, is a form with broad 
variegated leaves. 
Co : Uitenhage Div.; near Strand Fontein ard Matjes Footein, 
and oe Vea Sioieas ular Drége, 4494a! Albany Div.; in a wooded Kloof 
west of Grahamstown, Burchell, 3564! Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, Schénland, 
290! 
Eastern Reeion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 250! 251! 
V. KNIPHOFIA, Moench. 
Perianth cylindrical or funnel-shape ; tube long; segments sub- 
equal, small, ovate or oblong. Stamens 6, hypogynous, as loug as 
the perianth or longer, the three opposite the inner segments longest ; 
filaments filiform, slightly declinate; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, 
versatile, dehiscing poctges gor hittin tice em en 
many, su sed ; style long, filiform ; subentire, minute, 
sapteex reali ‘elstishails acutely angled ; testa thin, brown-black, 
punctate ; albumen fleshy. 
