CXXXIII. LILIACE. 399 
spreading, the outer sometimes shorter. Anthers 6, sessile in 
the throat of the corolla or within the fleshy crown, 3 opposite, 
the imner segments higher on the tube than the others. 
Ovary 3-celled; ovules several; style short, thick, terete ; 
stigma entire or 3-lobed. Capsule oblong or turbinate. Seeds 
black.— Kunth, l. c. p. 480; Harv. Thes. t. 180. 
Scapigerous plants, with the odour of Garlic. Root of many thick, 
tufted fibres. Leaves narrow, linear.. Scapes bearing many-flowered 
umbels, subtended by 2 spathaceous bracts. Flowers yellow, brown or 
rarely purple or violet. 
18. LITANTHUS, Harv. 
Perianth tubular, cylindrical, deciduous, the limb erect, 
equal, shortly 6-fid; lobes ovate, equal. Anthers 6, subsessile 
in the throat, included. Ovary sessile, 3-celled, several- 
ovuled ; style filiform, as long as the perianth-tube; stigma 
3-toothed. Capsule not seen.— Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. (1844), ii. p. 314. 
A minute, bulbous plant, with 2-3 slender, filiform leaves ; a bristle-like 
scape, 1-3 inches high, bearing at its summit a solitary, nodding, greenish 
flower, 13 line long and 3 line diameter, subtended by 2 opposite, membra- 
nous, middle-fixed bracts.—Found by Zeyher, in 1843, near the Zwartkops 
river; also by Drége (n. 8514, C.) ; and recently by H. Bowker and Mrs. 
F. W. Barber, in Caffraria. 
TriBE 38. ANTHERICER. (Gen. 19-28.) 
19. ALOE, Tourn. 
Perianth subcylindrical, straight or curved, sometimes ven- 
tricose at base, nectariferous, deciduous, 6-parted or cleft, the 
segments more or less connate among themselves, the 3 outer 
gibbous at base, inner thinner; limb sometimes irregular or 
2-labiate. Stamens 6, hypogynous, ascending, erect, rarely 
declined, equal or 3 shorter, included or rarely exserted. 
Ovary sessile; ovules numerous; style slender, sometimes 
very short; stigma simple or 3-lobed. Capsule membranous. 
Seeds black.— Kunth, l. c. p. 492. 
A very large genus of succulents, chiefly South African. Root of many 
thick, tufted fibres. Stem often shrubby, sometimes arborescent, simple or 
branched, or very short. Leaves very closely set, amplexicaul, 3-5- or 
many-ranked, sometimes distichous, thick and fleshy, soft or very rigid, 
smooth, rough, tubercled or prickly, more rarely toothed or ciliate. Pe- 
duncles axillary or terminal, simple or branched, sometimes scape-like ; 
flowers racemose, erect or pendulous, often gaily coloured.—Over 150 species, 
natives of dry places, mountain-sides, and borders of woods. 
20. KNIPHOFIA, Meench. 
Perianth tubular-subclavate, slightly curved, terete, 6- 
nerved, nectariferous at base ; limb shortly 6-parted, regular ; 
