Hemerocallidee.] THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS. 389 
180. HEMEROCALLIDEZ. 
The Hemerocallidee of Mr. Brown are very closely allied to Tulipacea, and might be 
treated of as a section of that order. They nearly correspond with the sub-orders, 
Agapanthea and Aloinee of Endlicher, and are chiefly found in temperate, with some 
in hot parts of the world, as the west coast of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, and 
South America ; Blandfordia in New Holland and Van Diemen’s Land; Phormium in 
New Zealand and Norfolk Island ; while to fhe north we have Funkia and Hemerocallis 
in China and Japan, the latter also in N. America, and with Czackia in Europe. A 
few exist both in the plains of India and in the Himalayas. Funkia having the species 
F. subcordata and F. ovata in China and Japan, exists also in the Himalayas, as I find 
by an unpublished drawing, No. 290, of Dr.Wallich’s, marked Hemerocallis cordata. 
Hemerocallis has one species, H. flava in Europe and Siberia; another, H. fulva, in 
China, but which is common in gardens in India, where it is called jognae; and 
a third in the Himalayas, H. disticha of Don (scarcely different, however, from 
H. fulva), obtained by Dr.Wallich from Gossainthan, and which I found on the nor- 
thern face of Manma. 
The genera usually placed in this family, and found in the plains of India, are, 
Polianthes, Sanseviera, and Aloe. The first is usually considered an Asiatic genus, 
but there are Mexican and Brazilian species; and Rumphius has suggested whether 
P. tuberosa itself may not have been introduced from the West Indies or S. America. 
It occurs in Mexico, according to Hernandez, (v. Salisbury, Trans. Hort. Soc. 1. p. 41.) 
The Tuberose is, however, most common in Asiatic gardens, and called by the Persians 
gool-shubbo, or night-flower: it was formerly called amica nocturna in Europe. Both 
the single and double varieties are common in gardens in India, Ceylon, and Java. 
Sanseviera, placed with Alve and Yucca in the group of Aloinee, is a genus common 
to India and the west coast of Africa, found also in Java and China. S. zeylanica is 
the oldest and best-known gpecies, so named from being first discovered in Ceylon. 
From it Salisbury has, apparently on insufficient grounds, distinguished S. Roxburghiana 
from the Peninsula and Bengal, figured by Roxburgh however, under the former name 
in Coromandel plants, t.42. S. Januginosa, katu-kapel of Rheede, Hort. Mal. xi. t. 42, 
is a third species found on the sands of the Malabar coast. All are closely allied to each 
other, and to the African S. guineensis. | ) 7 
Aloe is a genus containing numerous (nearly two hundred) species, which are 
almost entirely confined to the Cape of Good Hope; but, as in other families, we 
have a few extending beyond the limits of the majority of the species. A. abyssinica 
and A. soccotrina are found in the country and island from which they are named. 
A. rubescens and arabica, with Forskal’s A. inermis and pendens, in Arabia. Besides 
these, he describes two species as common on the coast of Arabia, and both having 
sibr, the Arabic name for aloes, applied to them. One of these has yellow flowers, 
and is allied to, and may be identical with, A. abyssinica. Another has reddish flowers, 
and 
