ASPARAGINEAE kunth. (Dianella.) 49 



disiicha, stricta, rigidissima, angustc linearia, acutata, utroquc 

 margine revoluta, striato-nervosa, cosla subtns vaUlc acutangulo- 

 prominentc, glabra, inermia, 18-20-pollicaria. lj-2 lin. lata, ba- 

 sim versus carinato-complicata, equitanti-amplexantia. Paniculae 

 e fasciculo foliorum solitariae, longe pedunculalae, folia supe- 

 rantes, erectae, duplicato- vel triplicato-ratnosae, bracteatae, abs- 

 que pcdunculo suhpcdalcs; peduuculo tereti, rigido, glabro, bi- 

 bracteato ; bractcis remotis, carinato-vaginantibus, acu(ato-mu- 

 cronatis, 2-1-pollicaribus ; rbacbi flexuosa; ramis solitariis, rc- 

 motis, patentibus, divaricato-subdichotomis. Florcs longc pedi- 

 cellati, pauci, in ramulis subcorymboso-racemosi, cernui, magni- 

 tudine 1). caeruleae; pedicellis 5-7 lineas longis, tenuibus, glabris, 

 curvatis; bracteolis vagis. Perigonium hcxaphyllum, patcntissi- 

 mum, glabrum, caerulcum ; foliola basi connata ; cxteriora lan- 

 ceolata, apice obtusiusculo subcucullata, 5-ncrvia, baud glandu- 

 losa; intcriora vix breviora et tenuiora, paulo latiora, itcm 5- 

 nervia et eglandulosa. Stamina et pistillum larvis inscctorum 

 cxesa.*) (l)escr. juxta specimcn Sicberianum no. 198.) 



7. D. ELEGAKS Kunlh et Bouche in Ind. sem. Ilorl. Berol. 1848. 

 Caulescens; foliis caulinis elongatis, latc lincaribus, planis (6 lin. 

 latis), marginibus carinaque apicem versus spinuloso-scabris ; 

 paniculae ramis gcminis, patentibus; foliolis pcrigonii omnibus 

 5-nerviis. — Tcrra van Diemen. 2j. — Caespitosa; caulescens. 

 Caules crecti, tcrctiusculi, loliati. infcrne squamati. Squamac 

 lincari-lanceolatac, distichae, carinatac, ainplcxicaules, acumina- 

 tac, striato-ncrvosae, marginibus carinaque spinulosac, fusces- 

 centes. Folia equitanti-disticha, subpcdalia, dimidium polliccm 



latiora (3 lin. lata). Perigonium item eglandulosum. Stamina et pistil- 

 lum carie destructa. Antherae fuscae. 



") Filamenta apice incrassata, crocea (in ic. Lindl.). Antherae 

 cacruleae (fuscae Lindl., lnteae tamen in icone), \\ 1 in. longae. Columna 

 stylina erecta, albida, staminihus paulo brevior. Stigma parvum, trun- 

 catum. Ovarium suhrotundum. glabrum. Schult. I. c. 



In pianta fructifera Horti Berolinensis (an legitima?) vidi ut sequitur: 

 Caulescens? Folia anguste linearia, apice destructa, nervoso-striata, rigida, 

 carina subtus acutangulo-promineute, marginibus reeurvata, hinc inde re- 

 voluta, inferne carinato-coniplicata, equitanti-vaginantia, laevia, subsesqui- 

 pedalia,vix 2 lin. lata. Paniculae terminales, solitariae, breviter pedunculatae, 

 erectae, duplicato- vel triplicato-ramosae, bracteatae, suppetentes fructi- 

 ferae; rbachi angulata, flexuosa ; ramis subgeminis, divaricato-subdicho- 

 tomis. patentibus; pedicellis in ramulis subracemosis, leviter curvatis, 

 glabris, k 2^-4 lin. longis, apicc articulatis. Baccae nudae, subglobosae, 

 nigrae?, magnitudine grani piperis, oligospermae, glabrae. Semina obli- 

 que obovata vel elliptica, lenticulari-compressa, laevissima, atra, nitidis- 

 sima, anatropa. Testa crustacea, fragilis; nucleus oblique obovatus, ad 

 extremitatem rotundatam ehalaza sublaterali orbiculari fusca notatus, 

 ad oppositam tenuiorem in apiculum deflexum desineus ; membrana nu- 

 clei tenuissima, vix fuscescens, albumini adhaerens. Albumen niiclco 

 conforme, carnosum, album. Embryo minutissimus, tereti-clavulatus, in- 

 clusus, albidus, extremitate radiculari subglohuloso iucrassata et apicu- 

 lata, bilo proxima. 

 Kcnth. Synops. V. [ -4 ] 



