266 LILIACEA. [ CHLOROPHYTUM. 
8. CHLOROPHYTUM, Ker. ; FL Brit. Ind. vi, 333. 
Herbs with a short hard rootstock emitting many fascicled roots, 
often thick and fleshy or tuber-like. Leaves radical, clustered, often 
broad, rarely linear or lorate. Flowers laxly racemed on a simple 
or branching leafless scape ; pedicels usually fascicled in the axils 
of small scarious or large membranous bracts. Perianth petaloid, 
marcescent or persistent, rarely deciduous ; lobes free, rotate. 
Stamens 6, kypogynous, free or the 3 inner adnate to the perianth- 
lobes, included ; filaments filiform, often widened above the middle, 
anthers oblong or linear, introrse, the filament inserted in a pit on 
the back of the connective. Ovary 3-quetrous, style filiform, 
stigma small, ovules 4 or more in each cell. Fruit a coriaceous 
truncate 3-quetrous loculicidal capsule. Seeds broad, usually 
compressed, rugose, testa black, albumen rather hard ; embryo 
often curved and rather large.—Species about 40, in tropical and 
sub-tropical regions. 
C. tuberosum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. XV, (1876), 332; © 
F. B. L., vi, 334 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1077 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ti, 772. 
Anthericum tuberosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. w, 149. 
Root-fibres cylindric, with ellipsoid tubers hanging from them. Leaves 
sessile, membranous, usually ensiform, falcate, acuminate, recurved, 
8 in. long or more; margins crisped or undulate. Scape terete, 
naked, usually longer than the leaves. Flowers white, in simple or 
shortly branched racemes 2-4 in, long, bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 
the lower ones 3-? in. long ; pedicels ascending, 4-3 in. long, jointed 
below the middle. Per.-segments less than 4 in. long, oblong- 
lanceolate subacute, 7-9-nerved. Stamens shorter than the perianth ; 
anthers narrowly linear, afterwards twisted. Capsule 3 in. long, 
obovoid, emarginate, shining, transversely veined ; cells 4-6-seeded. 
Seeds black. 
Gorakhpur (Vicary) : N. Oudh, in the districts of Gonda and Bahraich 
(Duthie). DrstR1s.: Behar and W. Bengal; Central India and 
from the Konkan and N. Circars to Travancore, also in Burma and 
extending to Abyssinia. 
Alviium,. Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi., 337.—This genus contain 
over 250 species and is distributed in northern Temperate regions. 
The 27 species recorded in the F. B. I. as growing wild in India are 
nearly all confined to the Himalayan ranges. The cultivated 
kinds about 5, are briefly mentioned below. 
