92 Mule rials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



panicled. Flowers small or medium-sized white, pedicellate. Sepals 

 and petals similar linear oblong. Stamens 6, filaments liliform anthers 

 linear versatile. Ovary globose trilocular. Ovules 4-20 in each cell. 

 Style elongate filiform. Stigma minute capitate. Capsule trigonous 

 deeply 3 lobed, lobes flattened. Seeds discoid black, albumen abun- 

 dant. 



Species about 40. Africa and India, a few in the Malay, Austra- 

 lian and American regions. 



C. OltCHlDASTRUM, Lindl. Hort. Trans. VI. 79, Bot. Reg. t. 813. 

 A large tufted plant with flaccid elliptic lanceolate acuminate leaves 

 about 2 feet long and 2 inches wide. Panicles tall 12 to 18 inches 

 long rather stout with a few long branches. Bracts at the base of the 

 branches long papery acuminate 1 to 3 inches long. Flowers numer- 

 ous in twos and threes, scattered wdiite. Pedicels s inch long. Sepals 

 and petals lanceolate acute. Capsule j inch long, | inch wide retuse. 

 Seeds rounded Hat black wrinkled. 



Kunth. Enum. IV. 603, Baker Journ. Linn. Soc. XV. 325, Plook. 

 hi. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 336. C. Niwvtnoni, Dalz. Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 

 II. 142. Anthericum NimmoniGvah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 252. Phalangium 

 oUijospenniim Wight Ic. t. 2038. 



Pcnk, Kuala Dipang, on limestone rocks (Ridley). Distrib. India, 

 Cambodia, Tropical Africa. 



5. D IAN ELLA, Lam. 



Herbs rootstock usually branched. Leaves stiff distichous linear 

 bases equitant. Scapes tall panicled. Flowers small blue or white 

 nodding, pedicels jointed at the top. Sepals and petals 6, narrow 

 spreading or recurved. Stamens 6 hypogynous, filaments thick, an- 

 thers linear basihxed opening by pores. Ovary 3 celled ovules 4 to 8 

 in a cell. Style filiform, stigma minute capitate. Berry blue or white. 

 Seeds few ovoid flattened black. 



Species 7 or 8. Chiefly Australian and Polynesian, one Indian, 

 African and Malayan also. 



I), ensifolia, Red. Lil. t. 1. Stems leafy flattened tufted U-6 foct 

 tall i inch across. Leaves distichous linear lancoolate acuminate 2 

 feet long, li inch wide, sheathing base 6 inches long. Scapo 2 feet 

 long. Panicle 6 inches or more, pedicels persistent i inch long. 

 Flowers i inch long, blue or greenish white. Sepals linear subacute. 

 Petals thinner and broader, all violet or greenish yellow. Stamens 

 shorter. Anthers yellow. Berry blue or white § inch through. Seeds 

 5-6, ovoid a inch wide. 



Kunth. Enum. V. 50, Baker. Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV. 576, Benth 

 Fl. Austral. VII. 16, Bat. Mag. t. 1404, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bot. III. 560, 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 337. D. odorata, Bl. Enum. I. 14, Kunth. 



