746 CXXVIII. HJEMODORACE.'E. 



Tlie Bow-string Hemp, sometimes but not very commonly grown in 

 gardens. It does not produce seed in the Bombay Presidency. The 

 fibre is excellent and very strong, used for lisbing-liues and bow-strings. 

 Grab. Cat. p. 218; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 91 ; Trim. M. Ceyl v. 4, 

 p. 267; lloxb. Cor. PI. v, 2, p. 43, t. 184; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 522; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, part 2, p. 460. 

 Sansevieria lloxhurghiana, Schultz, f. Syst. v. 7 (1829) p. 357 ; Hook. f. 

 n. B. I. V. 6, p. 271 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7487 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1054.— 

 Plowers : Jan. Vern. Murha ; Murva ; Naghin. 



DiSTRiB. India (usually cultivated ; said to be iudigenous on the Ooromandel 

 coast) ; Ceylon, Java, China, Africa. 



Sansevieria n/lmdrica, Boj. Hort. Maurit. (1837) p. 349. The terete- 

 leaved Boio-str'ing Hemp, a native of Tropical Africa. Leaves terete, 

 quite solid ; flowers cream-white tinged with pink, in fascicles along 

 the rhachis of a long raceme. Occasionally cultivated in gardens. 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5093 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 622 ; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1054. 



Excluded Species. 



I'ELIOSANTIIES NEILOKERRENSIS, Wight, Icon. V. 6 (1853) p. 26, t. 20o2. 

 Leaves membranous, 3-8 in a tuft from the base of the plant, 4|-8 by £-1^ m., 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base acute ; nei'ves slender, 10-15, of which 5 are 

 stronger than the otliers, the transvei-se nervules conspicuous ; petioles 4-8 in. long, 

 slender. Flowers dark purple, measuring i in. across when spread out, secund, in 

 racemes 8-12 in. long (including tlie scape) ; bracts 1-ilowered, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, scarious, the tips inllexed, the lower bracts reaching ^ in., the upper 

 yij-l in. long ; pedicels |-'j in. long, articulated at the apex, cernuous. Perianth- 

 segments 0, oblong, obtuse, about | in. long. Mouth of corona 6-toothed. Stigma 

 3-lobed. Seeds obturbinatelv ovoid, i-§ in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 266 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 521 ; Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 17 (1880) 



p. 503. , , . , TTT- , . 



In the ' Flora of British India ' Kanara is given as a habitat of this plant on Wight s 



reputed authority. Woodrow in his list of Bombay Plants copies the ' Flora of 

 British India' and also gives Kanara, Wight. But Wight does not anywhere give 

 Kanara as a iiabitat. In his ' Icones ' (/. c.) he gives Sispara, and Steudel (Herb. 

 No. 1306) also gives Sispara, which is on the Nilghiris at an elevation of about 

 6000 feet. There is absolutely no evidence of the existence of the plant in the Bombay 

 Presidency. 



OiiDEE CXXIX. AMARYLLIDACEiE. 



Perennial herbs (rarely shrubs or undershrubs). Eootstock a bulb, 

 tuber or corm, rarely an erect stock. Leaves radical. Scape naked (in 

 the Indian genera). Flowers few, often umbellate ; bracts membranous 

 or colored (rarely herbaceous), the outer under the umbel 1-3 (rarely 

 many) -involucrate ; occasionally the inflorescence racemose or paniculate 

 with scattered bracts. Perianth regular or irregular, 2-seriate, 6-lobed 

 or -partite, sometimes with a corona at the mouth of the tube. Stamens 0, 

 adnato to the bases of the perianth-segments, rarely epigynous ; fila- 

 ments free or connate ; anthers erect or versatile. Ovary 3-celled, 

 inferior ; ovules many, anatropous, 2-seriate on the inner angles of the 

 cells ; style slender ; stigma simple or 3-cleft. Fruit inferior, usually 



