400 LIL1acEz (Baker). [ Chlorophytum. 
Var. 6, Tembuland ; Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 131! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 842 
partly ! 
Anthericum variegatum, Floral Mag., 1875, t. 152, isa form with variegated 
leaves. 
10. C. macrosporum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 330) ; leaves 
lanceolate, sessile, moderately firm in texture, glabrous, 1}-2 ft. 
long, under an inch broad, with about a dozen distinct ribs; stem 3 ft. 
long below the panicle, stout, stiffly erect; panicle deltoid, 13-2 ft. 
long, with a few spreading branches ; bracts small ; pedicels 3-6 -nate, 
articulated at the middle, some finally an inch long; perianth 
whitish, 1 in. long; segments oblong, with a broad green keel; 
stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers small, linear-oblong ; 
capsule 3 in. long, oblong, very acutely angled ; seeds orbicular, 5-6 
in a cell, 2 in. diam. 
Karanari Beeion: South African Gold Fields, Baines. (Perhaps inter- 
tropical). 
11. C. comosum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 329) ; root-fibres 
cylindrical ; radical leaves 10-12, linear, glabrous, moderately firm in 
texture, 1-14 ft. long, 1-4 in. broad at the middle, narrowed 
gradually to the apex and clasping base, distinctly 12-15-nerved ; 
stem 13-2 ft. long including the inflorescence, simple or branched ; 
racemes very lax, reaching a foot in length, with a tuft of linear 
leaves 1-3 in. long from the apex and sometimes also from the 
upper nodes; bracts small, deltoid-cuspidate ; pedicels 2—4-nate, 
4-1 in. long, articulated at the middle; perianth 3 in. long, whitish ; 
outer segments oblanceolate, inner oblong, 3-nerved in ‘the centre; 
stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers small, oblong; cap- 
sule } in. diam., deeply 3-lobed; seeds 3-5 in acell. Anthericum 
—comosum, Thunb. Prodr. 63; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 323. Phalan- 
gum comosum, Poir. Encyc. v. 252. Casia comosa, Spreng. Syst. 
li. 88; Kunth, Enum. iv. 610. Hartwegia comosa, Nees in Nova 
Acta xv. 2,373; Kunth, Enum. iv. 607. Anthericum sternbergi- 
oe Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1693. Phalangium viviparum, 
Sourn AFrioa: without locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 112! 
Coast ‘Rucion: Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, Thunberg! Stockenstrom 
Div. ; summit of Katberg, Scully, 137! 
5 eh me uss Somerset, Elliot, 328 ! 
STERN Region: Natal; Ina ! i recise 
socality, Gober: STi nda, Wood, 842 partly! and without p 
XVIII. CHS A, R. Br. 
Perianth marcescent, persistent, spirally twisted when faded ; seg- 
ments oblanceolate, subequal, 3-nerved, connate at the very base, 
Stamens 6, attached to the base of the perianth-segments; filaments 
filiform ; anthers small, oblong, dorsifixed, dehiscing introrsely. 
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