348 



H 



Hippochi 



has the anthers quite as twisted as in a normal Plocandra. 

 Bentham and Hooker have indeed remarked that the anthers may 

 at times be spiral in G. peduncular is. This does not appear to be 

 the case in any specimen of C '. peduncularis in Herb. Kew, It 

 is, however, found from their specimens that G. peduncularis, 

 Benth. and Hook, f . {Gen. PI., ii., p. 805), was not exactly Lindley's 

 species so named, but included G. rosacea, Gilg, which is a 

 Pseudosabbatia, and has somewhat twisted anthers. The true 

 G. peduncularis, LindL, was in part treated by Bentham and 

 Hooker as a distinct species, G. latifolia, E. Mey. 



In the subjoined conspectus of the Ghironiinae, Gilg {Engl. 

 Nat. Pflanzenf., iv. 2, p. 76), which subdivision is confined to the 

 genera Orphiurn and Chironia, the diagnostic characters of these 

 genera and of the subordinate groups of species that compose the 

 latter are given in detail ; the characters that distinguish the 

 varieties recognisable under certain of the species are shown in 

 smaller type. 



OHIRONIINAE 



(Gilg in Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam., iv*, 2, 76), 



Genus A. — ORPHIUM. Galyx-lobes obtuse, without keels. Crenu- 

 late disk between calyx and corolla. Leaves and stems usually 

 pubescent. 



A single species — S. Africa. 0. frutescens. 



Leaves flat a. frutescens, typica. 



Leaves semiterete f3. var. angxistifdia. 



Genus B. — CHIRONIA. Galyx-lobes usually acute and usually 

 keeled. No disk between calyx and corolla. 



Subgenus I.— Roeslinta. Fruit indehiscent, baccate, fleshy, 

 readily separating entire from the torus ; leaves and stems 

 glabrous. 



Section 1. — Roeslinia. Galyx 5-partite ; corolla-tube cylindric, 

 narrowed under limb ; anthers straight ; ovary obtuse, globose. 



A single species— S. Africa. 



baccift 



Leaves linear ; corolla-lobes not exceeding \ in. a. baccifera, typica 

 Leaves narrow-linear; corolla-lobes exceeding 



(3. var. grandlflora. 



Leave 



1 in 



ceeding \ in y . V ar. Burchelli. 



Leaves subspathulate-oblong ; corolla-lobes not 

 exceeding \ in $ w va r. dilatata. 



Subgenus II.— Euchironia. Ftniit a 2-valved capsule, cori- 

 aceous, the valves usually not quite separated to the base, and 

 remaining attached to the torus after the seeds are shed ; leaves 

 and stems glabrous. 



Section 2.— Linochiron. Galyx 5-fid, rarely 5-partite; corolla- 

 tube narrow-campanulate ; anthers straight or faintly spiral; 



i6. OVOid or ohlrmcr 



ovary obtuse, ovoid or oblong. 



