Sanseviera. hexandria monogynia. 161 



S. zeylanica. Willd. 2. 159. Corom. pi 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 liyacintlioides zeylanica. Linn. 



We may call it in English Bow-string Hemp. 



Teling. Ishama-coda nar. 



Aloe zeylanica pumila, of Plukenef. t. 256. Fig. 5. is no 

 doubt this plant as is also Katu-kapel of Rheed Mahi' 

 baricus, vol. 11. pageSS. table 42, so that I conclude the 

 plant in the King's garden at Kew "Aletris acaulisfoliis 

 lanceolatis carnosis, florihus geminatis" to be theGuineen- 

 sis, the fruit of which has lately been so well described, 

 and figured by Gaertner, 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, 

 round, smooth, about as thick as a 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 than, the scape below the flow- 



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