Sandersonia. } LILIACEE (Baker). | 527 
Ovary oblong, deeply laterally 3-lobed; ovules many, superposed ; 
‘style short, cylindrical, trifid, its branches internally stigmatose. 
Fruit and seeds unknown. 
Distzis. Endemic. 
1. 8. aurantiaca (Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4716) ; rootstock tuberous; 
stem erect, simple, 1-2 ft. long, leafy to the apex, except a short 
distance near the base ; leaves sessile, alternate, ascending, linear or 
lanceolate, 2-4 in. long, 3-3 in, broad; flowers solitary from the 
axils of a few of the upper leaves on slender, cernuous, ebracteate 
pedicels 3-1 in. long; perianth bright yellow, 3-1 in. long; stamens 
and pistil 1-2 as long as the perianth. Harvey, Cape Genera, edit, 2, 
403 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 453. 
EasTERN Re@ion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 255! Griqualand East; woods 
around Fort Donald, 5000 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 
528! Natal, Wood, 459! Sutherland! Sanderson! Gerrard, 527! 
XLVIII. LITTONIA, Hook. 
Perianth marcescent, cutdown nearly to the base into 6 equal, oblong- 
lanceolate, ascending segments. Stumens 6, hypogynous, much 
shorter than the perianth ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear-oblong, 
versatile, introrsely attached near the base, extrorsely dehiscent. 
Ovary sessile, oblong, trilocular, deeply trisuleate ; ovulesmany, super- 
posed ; style short, erect, cylindrical, with 3 falcate branches stig- 
matose internally. Capsule large, coriaceous, septicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds not seen. : 
Rootstock tuberous; stem simple or branched, erect or sarmentose, leafy up to 
the top; flowers solitary from the axils of upper leaves. 
DistrrB. Four species in Tropical Africa and two in Arabia. 
1. L. modesta (Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4723) ; stem slender, simple, 
short and suberect, or longer and sarmentose ; leaves ovate or lanceo- 
late or linear, cirrhiferous at the tip, central verticillate, upper 
opposite or alternate ; flowers solitary from the axils of the upper 
leaves on slender, ebracteate, cernuous pedicels 1-2 in. long; perianth 
8_]1 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, acute ; stamens and pistil 
about 4 in. long; capsule 1} in. long. Harvey, Cape Gen. edit, 2, 
403; Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xvii. 458. 
Var. 8, Keiti (Leichtlin in The Garden, 1885, xxviii. 116); stems longer, 
‘cues, ee cs flowers ae many as 50 to one stem. J, Keiti, 
Leichtlin in The Garden, 1883, xxiv. 87. : 
Kabanart Recion: Orange Free State; Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 880! Trans- 
vaal, Houtbosch, 5813! Umvoti Creek, Barberton, Galpin, 761! near Lydenburg, 
Atherstone ! : 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; Nottingham, Buchanan! near Tongaat, M’Ken! 
and without precise locality, Gerrard, 758! Gwueinszius! : 
