Sansevieria.'] HcemodovaCCCE. 267 



3-toothed, ovules collateral, erect, anatropous ; fr. bursting 



irregularly before the maturation of the globose seeds, which 



enlarge and ripen fully exposed. — Sp. 10 or more; 9 in Fl. 



B. Ind. 



O. intermedius, Dofi, Prod. FL Nepal. 48 (1825). 



Diaiiella graminifolia. Moon, Cat. 25. Thw. Enum. 339. C. P. 2294. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 269. Wight, Ic. t. 2050 (C indiciis). 



Rootstock short; 1. 10-18 by \-\ in., linear, acute or 

 acuminate, subsecund, margins scaberulous, dark green above, 

 pale beneath, sheaths very short, scarious, white; scape much 

 shorter than the 1., naked; raceme 3-4 in., nodding, laxly 

 many-fld. ; bracts subulate, variable in length ; fl. rather 

 distant, shortl}' pedicelled, drooping, about \ in. broad, white; 

 per. -segments oblong, obtuse ; fil. triangular, much shorter 

 than the per.-segm., anth. narrowly oblong ; stigma acute, 

 minutely 3-toothed ; seeds subglobose, \ in. diam., blue, 

 crowded around and almost concealing the small withering 

 pericarp, testa soft, blue. 



Shady places in moist region to about 4000 ft.; common. Fl. Feb., 

 March ; white. 



Also in the hill districts and mountains throughout India. 



2. SANSEVIERIA, Thtmb. 

 Stout, coriaceous, thick-leaved herbs, often stoloniferous ; 

 1. radical, narrow, flat, terete, or plano-convex in section, 

 veins immersed; scape erect, naked, fl. racemose; perianth 

 inferior, tube elongate, lobes 6, narrow, recurved ; stam. 6, 

 inserted on the bases of the lobes, fil. filiform, anth. dorsifixed ; 

 ov. superior, attached by a broad base, 3-celled, cells i-ovuled, 

 style filiform, stigma simple, ovules erect; fr. 1-3-lobed, 1-3- 

 celled, cells i -seeded, pericarp membranous, bursting irre- 

 gularly before the maturation of the seeds which ripen 

 exposed; seeds globose, testa soft. — Sp. 10 or 12; 2 in FL 

 B. Ind. 



S. zeylanica, Wi/ld. Sp. PL iii. 159 (1799). Niyanda, S. 

 Maral, T. 



Herm. Mus. 56. Burm. Thes. 11. Fl. Zeyl. n. 130. S. Ro.vburghiana, 

 Schultes f. Syst. vii. 357. Aloe hyacinthoides, var. zeylanica, L. Sp. PI. 

 ed. 2, 456. Moon, Cat. 25. Thw. Enum. 338. C. P. 2297. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 270 {S. Roxbicrghiatia.) Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 184 (good). 

 Rheede, Hort. Mai. xi. t. 42. Bot. Mag. t. 7487 (5. RoxburgJnana). 



Rootstock very stout, branching, stoloniferous ; stem very 

 short ; 1. about 8 or 9 in a tuft, 2J-3 ft. by i in. towards the 

 middle, suberect, dagger- shaped, rigid, pale green with trans- 

 verse bands of dark green, concave above, and striate, dorsally 



