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simple or branched. Flowers jointed with the long pedicels, soon withering. 
—Many species. 
24. CHLOROPHYTUM, Gawl. 
Perianth 6-parted, regular, persistent, the sepals connate at 
the very base, widely spreading, 38 outer sub-5-nerved, 3 inner 
a little longer, narrower, 3-nerved. Stamens hypogynous, 
subequal ; filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary sessile; ovules 
several; style filiform, erect; stigma truncate. Capsule 
roundish, 3-angled, depressed, 3-lobed at the summit. Seeds 
few, lenticular.—Kunth, 1. c. p. 602. Also Hartwegia, Nees, 
(which has very minutely papulose filaments, and an acute 
stigma, otherwise as in Chlorophytum), Kunth, 1. c. p. 607. 
Stemless plants, with fascicled, fleshy roots. Leaves radical, linear or 
lanceolate, membranous or rigid. Scape simple or branched. Flowers so- 
litary or in pairs, white within, green on the outside.—6 Cape species. 
25. BOWIEA, Harvy., not Haw. 
Perianth 6-parted, stellately-patent, persistent; sepals 
broadly subulate, 1-nerved, somewhat keeled, uncinate-in- 
flexed at apex. Stamens 6, at the base of the sepals, shorter 
than them ; filaments filiform, glabrous, equal, spreading ; an- 
thers sagittate at base, erect. Ovary sessile, oval-oblong, 
3-celled; ovules few (5-6) in each cell; style filiform, erect ; 
stigma simple, subcapitate. Capsule coriaceous, ovate-ob- 
long, 3-cornered, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds about 
4 in each cell, angular subpyriform, black; placentas at the 
apex prolonged into a slender, horn-like process.—Bot. Mag. 
é. 5619. 
B. volubilis, Harv., is a bulbous plant, when young bearing a few filiform, 
terete, radical leaves; from the top of the bulb ascends « long, twining, 
voluble, succulent, branching panicle, bearing many times forked branchlets 
in the lower part, and long, pedicelled, laxly-racemose, greenish-white 
flowers in the upper. Branchlets filiform, each subtended by a minute 
subulate bract, as are also the pedicels. Pedicels either continuous or 
jointed at a variable distance below the flower !—The genus Bowiea 
of Haworth, having been long since merged in Aloe, I wish to give the 
name of Mr. James Bowie to the present very singular plant, which was 
discovered on the Katberg by Mr. Hutton, and has since been found by 
Cooper and by Mrs. Bowker on the Isomo, Caffraria. 
26? CAISIA, R. Br. 
Perianth 6-parted, regular, spirally-twisted after flowering, 
deciduous ; sepals subconnate at base, 3-nerved, widely spread- 
ing, the imner scarcely wider. Stamens at the base of the 
sepals and shorter; filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary 
sessile ; ovules in pairs, erect ; style filiform, elongate, erect. 
Capsule 3-lobed ; cells 1-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds black.— 
Kunth, 1. ¢. p. 608. 
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