CXXXIT. LILIACE.E. 705 



iSowers in pedicellate fascicles of threes. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 330 ; Woodr. 

 Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 506. 



There is a pi*etty variety, maculata (Bot. Mag. t. 4787), with the 

 leaves spotted or blotched with yellow. 



Braccena condana, Kunth, Enum. v. 5 (1850) p. 8. A neat-growing 

 species reaching 6 ft. higli, with narrow green leaves with purplish-red 

 margins, a native of Mauritius. Woodr. Gard. in. Ind. ed. 5, p. 505. 



Dracaena Goldieana, Bull, Cat. (1877) p. 9. A magnificent ornamental 

 foliage plant of erect habit, a native of Tropical Africa. It bears white 

 flowers in a dense globose sessile head 2 in. in diam., and ovate cordate 

 acuminate leaves, marbled and irregularly banded with dark green and 

 silvery grey in alternate straight or furcate bauds. Woodr. Gard. in 

 Ind. ed. 5, p. 507 ; Illust. Hortic. v. 25 (1878) p. 8, t. 300. 



4. DISPORUM, Salisb. 



Herbs with erect angular leafy stems arising from a creeping root- 

 stock. Leaves sessile or subsessile, strongly nerved. ilowers in 

 terminal or axillary few-floweied umbels ; pedicels decur\ed. Perianth 

 narrowly campanulate, deciduous ; lobes 6, petaloid, subequal, free, 

 erect or spreading at the tips, their bases saccate or spurred. Stamens 6, 

 hypogynous ; anthers dorsilixed, dehiscing extrorsely. Ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules 2-i5 in each cell ; style long or short ; stigmas 3, short. Eruit a 

 fleshy pisiform black berry. Seeds few, subglobose ; testa brown; 

 albumen horny; embryo small. — Distrib. Species about: 12, Asiatic and 

 N. American. 



1. Disporum Leschenaultianum, D. Don, in Trans. Linn. >*Soc. 

 V. 18 (1839) p. 518. Stem 1-2 ft. high, acutely angular, simple 

 below and clothed with broad sheathing scales, dichotomously branched 

 above. Leaves 1-4 by 1-2 in., ovate-oblong, cuspidately acuminate, 

 membranous, green on both sides, with 5-9 strong nerves and many 

 slender intermediate ones, base rounded ; petioles i-i in. long. Flowers 

 white, in axillary 3-5-flowered sessile umbels ; pedicels ^-| in. long. 

 Perianth |-§ in. long ; segments ^-i in. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 

 subacute, obscurely ciliolate on the margins and with a subsaccate 

 base, rilaments stout, about as long as the anthers. Berry | in. in 

 diam., depressed-globose, dark-blue when ripe. Seeds globose. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 6, p. 360; Wight, Icon. t. 2048; Baker, in Joui-n. Linn. Soc. 

 v. 14 (1874) p. 590 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 289 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Xat. v. 12 (1899) p. 524. Disporum niysorense, Wight, Icon. 

 V. 6 (1853) p. 25, t. 2049. D. ceylanicum, Wight, Icon. v. 6 (1853) 

 p. 26, t. 2049. 



Rare. Kanaka : Santaveri (N. Kaiiara), Talbot ex Woodrow. — Distrib. India 

 (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon. 



5. GLORIOSA, Linn. 



Climbing herbs ; stems leafy, springing from a naked tuberous root- 

 stock. Leaves alternate, opjiosite or 3-nately whorled, lanceolate, 

 strongly nerved, with a long spiral tendril-like apex. Flowers large, 

 showy, axillary, solitary ; pedicels reflexed at the tip. Perianth petaloid, 

 persistent ; segments 6, subequal, spreading or reflexed, the margins 



