SPHENOSTIGMA. lOo 



1. C. PALUDOSA Aubl. Guian. 38, t. 13; Klatt, FI. Bras. iii. 514, 

 t, 64, fig. 1. C. (jraiinnt'd and huiiiilin H. B. K. Marled pahulosa 

 Willd. ; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 646. M. Ci/mra Gmel. — Rootstock a 

 small globose corm witli brown membranous tunics. Root-leaves 

 2-3, linear, plicate, 1-1^ ft. long, i-i in. broad. Stem terete, 

 bearing a few clusters in a fascicle, bracteated by a large reduced 

 plicate leaf. Spathes cylindrical, 1-2 in. long; valves green, outer 

 short. Pedicels about as long as the spathe. Perianth very 

 fugitive; outer segments i-^ in. long, tinged with hlac ; inner 

 much shorter, witii 1-2 yellow blotches near the base, inside. 

 Capsule ^-| in. long. 



Var. C. cuBENSis JSauvalle. — Leaves very narrow. Clusters of 

 flowers single. 



Hab. Throughout Tropical America from Cuba and Mexico to South 

 Brazil, ascending to 6000 ft. in the Andes. I cannot separate specifically 

 C. pallens Griseb. 



19. Sphenostigma Baker. 



Perianth without any distinct tube above the ovary ; segments 

 spreading, obovate-cuneate, the inner often shorter than the outer, 

 and sometimes a diftVrent shape. Stamens inserted at the base of 

 the segments ; filaments free, shorter than the linear anthers. 

 Ovary clavate, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style filiform. 

 Style-branches flattened, petaloid, usually cuneate like those of a 

 Gladiolus. Capsule clavate, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds many, small, angled by pressure. — Huotstock a tunicated bulb. 

 Leaves plicate. Heads not fascicled. Flowers very fugitive, usually 

 blue. 



Subgenus Eusphenostigma. Inner perianth-segments different 

 from the outer. Filaments free .... Sp. 1-8. 



Subgenus Gomphostigma. Filaments mouadelphous. S^). 9-10. 



Subgenus Cardiostigma. Perianth-segments all alike. Fila- 

 ments free ........ Sp. 11. 



1. S. angustifolia Klatt, Erganz. 29. — Bulb ovoid, brown. 

 Root-leaves subterete, ^ lin. diam. Stem simple, geniculate, leaty, 

 under a foot long. Spathe If in. long ; valves unequal. Perianth 

 white ; outer segments obovate, an inch long ; inner shorter, ovate- 

 lanceolate. Filaments short. Style-branches dilated, ^ in. long. 



Hab. Central Brazil, Reynell. 



2. S. Sellowiana Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 124, Alophia 

 Sellowiana Klatt in Fl. Bras. iii. 516, tab. 65, fig. 2. — Bulb ovoid, 

 Root-leaves linear, plicate, 1-H ft. long, ^-^ in. broad at the 

 middle. Stem 1 ft. or more long, with 2-3 reduced leaves and a 

 single terminal cluster. Spathe cylindrical, 2i-3in. long; outer 

 valves firm, green, subequal. Perianth fugitive, bright bUf6>vQiiter 

 segments obovate-cuneate, an inch or more longj^>fl1^r|^h 

 Anthers i in. long ; filaments very short. Style^-af^k ^cJrtdf>iMfij^ 



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