‘Sanseviera. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 161 
S. zeylanica. Willd. 2. 159. Corom. pl. 2. N. 184. 
Stemless. Leaves linear, fleshy, concave, cuspidate, 
Racemes as long as the leaves ; flowers fascicled. Ber- 
ries drooping, their lobes globular, and slightly united. 
Sung. Moorva, See Asiatick Researches 4. 271. 
Beng. Moorba, Murahara, Murgalie. 
-Aletris hyacinthoides zeylanica. Linn. 
We may call it in English Bow-string — 
Teling. Ishama-coda nar. 
Aloe zeylanica pumila, of Plukenet. t. 256. Fig. 5. is no 
doubt this plant as is also Katu-kapel of Rheed Mala- 
baricus, vol. 11. page 83. table 42, so that I conclude the 
plant in the King’s garden at Kew “ Aletris acaulis foliis 
lanceolatis carnosis, floribus geminatis” to be the Guineen- . 
sis, the fruit of which has lately been so well described, 
and figured by Geertner, as to enable me with the more 
certainty to say that our Indian plant is perfectly dis- 
tinct. It grows very commonly under bushes, in thin 
jungle (forests,) in almost every soil. Flowering time 
the cold and the beginning of the hot season, that is, 
from the beginning of January till May. 
Root perennial, stoloniferous, Stolones as thick as the 
little finger,running under the ground, inserted in sheath- 
ing scales. Stem none. Leaves radical, from four to eight, 
the exterior ones shortest, spreading most, and considera- 
_ bly broader, the interior ones nearly erect, from one to four 
feet long, semi-cylindric, grooved on the upper side, each 
ending in a round, tapering, sharp point, they are all co- 
loured. with deeper and lighter green, and somewhat 
Striated, but otherwise are smooth.  Scapes issuing 
from the centre of the leaves, from one to two feet long, 
including the raceme, or flower bearing part, erect, 
found, smooth, about as thick asa small ratan, between 
the raceme and the base there are at regular distances, 
four or five pointed, alternate sheaths,  Racemes erect, 
about as long as, or longer 7 the scape below the flow- 
