2 68 Ai}iaryilid€(C. 



rounded, \ in. thick from back to front, margins thin, reddish, 

 terminated by a terete, acute, rigid, spiniform, green tip 1-2 in. 

 long ; scape a foot long, cylindric, green or pale purple, with 

 a few linear acuminate bracts 1-2 in. long; raceme 1-2 ft. 

 long by \\-2 in. diam., striate, erect, cylindric ; fl. in fascicles of 

 3-6, suberect, very shortly pcdicelled, sweet-scented ; bracts 

 very minute, ovate, acute, pale green ; perianth pale greenish- 

 white, tube .', in. long, cylindric, lobes about as long as the 

 tube, linear-oblong, olDtuse, revolute, tips purplish ; stam. erect, 

 fil. as long as the per.-lobes, anth. oblong, versatile; ov. 

 trigonous, 3-lobed, lobes pitted at the top, style filiform, 

 exserted, stigma minute ; fr. sparingly produced, globose, ?, in. 

 diam., of one fertile cell with 2 minute imperfect cells at the 

 base, dark orange colour; seed solitary, broadly ovoid, white, 

 albumen horny. 



Dry rocky or sandy places in the dry region ; common. Fl. Jan., 

 June, &c.; greenish-white tinged with violet. 



Also in S. India {S. hi?iiigi)iflsa, Willd.) and Ikirma. 



In a note upon this plant, Dr. Trimen has shown that the Saiisevieria 

 Rflxbin-ghiann, Schultes f. (Fl. B. Ind. vi. 271), is the true S. seylanica, 

 Willd.,' and that the ^S". zeylanica of Redoute (Liliac. t. 290, and Lindl. 

 Lot. Reg. 160, and other authors) is not a native of Ceylon. I have 

 suggested (in F. B. Ind.) that the latter is probably African, and may 

 have been cult, in Ceylon. 



CXXIX.— AMARYLLIDE/E. 



RoOTSTOCK bulbous or tuberous ; 1. from the summit or side 

 of the rootstock ; scape naked ; perianth petaline, superior, 

 tube long, short, or o, limb 6-lobed or partite ; stam. 6, on the 

 bases of the per.-segm., fil. free or connate, anth. erect or 

 versatile ; ov. superior, 3-celled, cells many-ovuled, style stout 

 or slender, stigma simple, 3-lobed or 3-partite ; ovules 

 2-many-seriate in the inner angles of the cells, anatropous ; 

 fr. a loculicidal capsule, bursting irregularly ; seeds few or 

 many, endosperm fleshy, enclosing the small embryo. 



The so-called American Aloes, Agave aiiicn'cana, L., and A. I'hipara, 

 L. (Wight, Ic. t. 2024), both commonly planted in Ceylon, as elsewhere in 

 India, belong to this Order. 



The apparent absence of the little star-flowered Hypoxis aurea, L., in 

 Ceylon, is remarkable, it being a common plant in the hilly parts of all 

 India from Kashmir to the Nilgiris, and in Burma, Java, and China. 



Rootstock tuberous i. CURCUI.ICO. 



Rootstock bulbous. 



Fil. free 2. Crixim. 



Fil. united by a membrane 3. Paxck \ IIUM. 



