rrO CXXXII. LILIACE.E. 



Bomb. Nat, v. 12 (1899) p. 524. Uropetalwn montamim, Dalz. 1. c. ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 250. — Plowers : July-Aug. 



Deccan : Western Deccan, Dalzell 4~ Gibson ; Sahyadri range, lat. 19°, DcdzcU ! ; 

 Jimnar near Poona, IVoodroiv ! S. M. Country : Belgaum, Stocks !, Balsell ^- Gibson, 

 Eitchie, 1454 ! — Distiiib. India (W. Peninsula). 



Trinien (Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 291) gives tliis for Ceylon, but the description renders 

 the identification doubtful. 



3. Dipcadi minor, HooTc.f. Fl. B. I. v. 6 (1892) p. 346. Racemes 

 6-12-flo\vered ; bracts much shorter than the capillary pedicels. 

 Perianth j-^ in. long ; outer lobes as long as the tube. 



There is but one sheet in Herb. Kew. containing a few scraps of the plant collected 

 by Dalzell. The specimens have neither bulbs, leaves, nor fruit. Dalzell on the sheet 

 gives " Hewra Plain " as its habitat. In the ' Flora of British India ' (v. 6, p. 346) 

 the localities " Malwan " and " Hewra Plain " have been transposed. 



Malwan is given by Dalzell as the habitat of D. concanense, Hewra Plain as that of 

 jD. minor. 



4. Dipcadi erythrseum, Webb Sf Berth. Hist. Nat. Canar. \. 3 

 (1848) p. 341. Bulb tunicate, g-g in. in diam. Leaves 6-8 by g-i in., 

 narrowly linear. Scape 4-7 in. long. Flowers greenish, in lax 

 6-12-flovvered racemes 4-6 in. long ; bracts |-§ in. long, the lower 

 the longest, ovate, finely acuminate ; pedicels -^^ in. long. Perianth 

 campanulate, g in. long; outer lobes | by g in., elhptic-oblong, obtuse, 

 with indurated tips, 7-nerved ; inner lobes similar, 5-nerved. Ovary 

 sessile, 5 in. long, elliptic-obovoid. Capsules |-g in. long and as broad, 

 slightly cuneate at the base, on a stout stalk g-| in. long, transversely 

 veined. Seeds 4—]% in. in diam., orbicular, flat, black. Dipcadi unicolor. 

 Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 11 (1870) p. 397; Hook. f. VI. B. I. 

 V. 6, p. 346 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 524. 



SiND : Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, Stoc/cs, 634! ; lower bills of Siud, Stocks'., 

 Lalzelll — DisTRiB. Arabia, Egyjjt. 



10. ASPHODELUS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs ; root-fibres slender or fleshy. Leaves 

 radical, linear, 3-qiietrous, or terete and fistular. Flowers racemose, on 

 a simple or branched leafless scape ; pedicels jointed, solitary in the 

 axils of small scarious bracts. Perianth petaloid, marcescent ; segments 

 6, free or shortly connate below. Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter than 

 the perianth-segments ; filaments dilated at the base, enclosing the 

 ovary; anthers oblong or almost linear, versatile, the filament inserted 

 in a pit at the back of the connective. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, collateral ; style filiform ; stigma somewhat 3-lobed. Fruit a 

 globose loculicidal capsule with rugose partitions. Seeds usually 

 solitary in each cell of the capsule ; testa black, usually rugose ; 

 albumen cartilaginous ; embryo rather large. — Disxeib. Species 6 or 7, 

 S. Europe and eastward to India. 



1. Asphodelus tenuifolius, Cav. in Ann. Cienc. Nat. v. 3 (1801) 

 p. 46, t. 27, fig. 2. Annual. Leaves 6-12 by jo— g in., terete, fistulous, 

 acute, sheathing at the base, finely puberuious. Scapes several from 

 the root, smooth or puberuious, much branched in the upper part, 

 1-2 ft. high. Flowers white, distant, laxly racemose, solitary in each 

 bract; ])edicels -^-^ in. long, jointed belovv the middle; bracts broadly 



