230 



whitish, not or scarcely shining. Flower stem 2-2|- ft. high, with 

 about 3 sub-membranous whitish sheaths f-1^ in. long on the 

 basal third and a lax raceme of flower-clusters above. Bracts 

 1-2 lin. lono-^ lanceolate, acute, membranous. Flowers 2-5 in a 

 cluster; pedicels 3|-4 lin. long, jointed at the middle; tube about 

 4 lin. long; lobes about 4 lin. long, greenish-white. S. Rox- 

 burghiana, Hook f. in Bot. Mag. t, T487, not of Schultes. 



Upper BrRMA. Near Xyaukse, Abdul Ilukl In the scrub 

 forest arotmd the village of Partar, two miles south-east of tlie 



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in September, 1912. It is nearly allied to S. Roxhurghiana and 

 *S. zeylanica, but when alive the adult plant is readily dis- 

 tinguished from 5. zeylanica by its much thinner and more 

 flexible leaves, which are erect and straight, not recurving, with 



more numerous lines on the back at the middle part, as well as 

 by the lighter green colour and less shining surface. From 

 S. Roxhurghiana it is easily distinguished in both the living 

 and dried states by its much more erect and very straight leaves, 

 which are also usually longer and more uniform in width for a 

 greater part of their length. 



30. S. aethiopica, Thunh. Frodr, PL Cap., p. 65 (excludin^ 



synonym). — Stemless, with a creeping rootstock. Leaves 13-3U 

 to a growth, not 2-ranked, ascending-spreading, somewhat rough, 

 5-17 in. long, 5-7 lin. broad, about 12-2^ Im. thick at the 





middle, linear or linear-lanceolate, sessile or only slightly nar- 

 rowed to the base, gradually tapering from the middle to a 

 subulate point f-1-^ in. long, which, when voung, is green, but 



very soon withers to white, very concave down the face, dark 

 green with a somewhat bluish hue and more or less glaucous 







sometimes transversely Landed with paler green ; margins rod or 

 wliitish (drying red). Flower-stem 16-80 in. liigh, 3^-5 lin. 

 tliick at the base, with 5-7 whitish membranous sheatlis :^-2| in. 

 long on the lower half, and a compact si)ike-like raceme of flower- 

 clusters at the upper half. Bracts spreading or reflexed, 2\-b lin_ 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Floivcrs 4-6 in a cluster; pedicels- 

 2-4 lin. long, jointed above tbe middle; tube ^l in. long; 



lobes T-9 lin. long, white.— Tlumb. iS'ov. Gen. 127, and FL 

 Cap, ed. Schultes, p. 329; Schultes Svst. Yeg., vol. vii. p. 358; 

 Eunth Enum. PL, vol. v. p. 19; JST. E. Brown in Bot. Mag. t. 



8487. S. zevlanira. T^pdmitA Tn'l A-nl t- + 900- A if '^ ' ^ 



Hort 



ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 278; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. vol. ii. t. ICO; Kunth, 

 Emim. PL, vol. v. p. 18; Baker in Kew Bull., 1887, No. v. p. 3 

 k 8, fig. 5, not of p. 4; Hooker, El. Brit. India, vol. vi. p. 270; 

 and Baker EL Cap., vol. vi. p. 5, not of Willdonow, excludin 

 all synonyms except those quoted here. S. glauca, Gerome 



Labr. m Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., 1903, pp. 169, 172-173, fig. H^ 



and He Wildem, Notices PL Utiles du Congo, pp. 624-625, 



ng. 11, not of Haworth. Aletris zeylanica, Mill Diet. ed. 8, 



No. IV. not of Lamarck. A. hyacinthoides var. zeylanica, Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. fid. 1. vnl i t. J.RJ. ^ 



