6. Yucca.] 145. LILIACEM. 



Panicle much larger, up to 3-6 ft. in length with larger bell-shaped 

 white flowers. Frt. dry but not dehiscent. 



7. ALOE, L. 



Dwarf fleshy leaved plants, more rarely arboreous. Leaves forming 

 rosettes or 2-ranked, usually spinosely dentate. Flowers in terminal 

 simple or branched racemes, usually reddish-yellow with green ; 

 perianth segments united into a cylindric or campanulate straight or 

 slightly curved tube, tips sometimes free. Stamens as long as perianth 

 or longer, filaments inserted into a pit in the connective. Frt. loculi- 

 cidal. 



The Aloes are especially abundant in South Africa. The most widely spread 

 species is probably A. vera, L., which, originally from North Africa, has been intro- 

 duced into most warm countries. It is probably the plant alluded to by Firminger 

 under the name of A. indica, " a common plant throughout the country with leaves 

 thorn-edged, thick, soft, pale-green and bearing dull red flowers." The spike is 

 s-imple erect elongating, the lower flowers usually falling off as it lengthens. 



The plants usually called Aloe are species of Agare. 



Hemerocallis fulva, L. The Day Lily. 



A robust plant with a very short rhizome and numerous fleshy 

 roots. Leaves 1-3 ft. long, linear. Flowers large erect tawny-yellow 

 in a few-fld. panicle at the top of a leafless scape. Perianth funnel- 

 shaped with a short cylindric tube and many-nerved erecto-patent 

 tepals. Stamens at the top of the tube, declinate, shorter than the 

 perianth, with dorsifixed anthers, the filament inserted into a pit. 

 Ovules many. Capsule coriaceous 3-quetrous. 



Common in gardens and verandahs. 



8. DIANELLA, Lamh. 



Herbs, stout in our species, with usually branched stoloniferous 

 rootstock and rigid, distichous, linear, often equitant leaves. Flowers 

 in cymose panicles, nodding, jointed on their pedicels. Perianth 

 marcescent, segments distinct spreading. Stamens 6 hypogynous, 

 or 3 inner on the bases of the petals, filaments much thickened ; 

 anthers basifixed, reflexed, opening by terminal pores or short slits. 

 Ovary 3 -celled with filiform style and minute stigma. Ovules 4-8 

 in each cell. Fruit baccate. Seeds few ovoid or compressed with 

 shining black testa and fleshy albumen. 



\. D. ensifolia, Red. 



A stout herb 18"-3 ft. high with equitant linear distichous leaves 

 strongly laterally compressed at the base and 18"-3 ft. long. From 

 the centre of the leaves rises one or more slender scapes terminating 

 in a panicle of umbelliform racemes of greenish or white flowers 

 developing in fruit beautiful cobalt-blue berries -3- -4" diam. 



Rocky ravines, pats of Ranchi and Palamau (Neterhat. 3000 ft.) I Fl., Fr. 

 April-June. 



Rootstock stout creeping. L. narrow below, sharply keeled by the midrib, 

 flat above and sharply acuminate, 'S-V2" wide in middle, midrib beneath and 

 margins scabrid. Scape somewhat compressed and angled with sharply keeled 



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