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CXL. LILIACEiE (bAKEII). 



[Dracaena. 



5-G in a cluster, sessile. Perianth nearly 1 in. long ; tube cylindrical, 

 as long as the lobes. 



iMO-wer Guinea. Southern French Congo; borders of the lagoon of Mayumba, 

 Lecomte, E 20 I Growing with D. arhorea. 



No specimen at Kew. 



4. KNIPHOPIA, Moench ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 775. 



Perianth-tnbe cylindrical or narrowly funnel-shaped; lobes short, 

 obtuse. Stamens B, hypogynous, often exserted ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary ovoid, o-celled ; ovules many in a 

 cell ; style long, filiform ; stigma minute, capitate. Capsule globose or 

 ovoid, loculicidally ;^-valved. Seeds angled; testa black; embryo oblong, 

 shorter than the albumen. — Rootstock short, vertical, sending out 

 many cylindrical root-fibres. Leaves all radical, long, dry, linear or 

 ensiform, usually acutely keeled. Flowers racemose, bright yellow or 

 red ; pedicels short, articulated at the apex ; bracts persistent, scariose. 

 Species 30-40, the others in South Africa and Madagascar. 



Leaves linear. Raceme dense. 

 Stamens not exserted. 



1. K. abyssinica, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Mthiop. 294. Leaves few, 

 linear, about 1 ft. long, \ in. broad low down, smooth on the margin, 

 not acutely keeled. Peduncle slender, as long as the leaves. Raceme 

 dense, oblong, 1-2 in. long ; pedicels very short, all deflexed ; bracts 

 lanceolate, the lower \ in. long. Perianth cylindrical, red, |-| in. long, 

 -j-V in. diam., not constricted above the ovary; lobes very small. 

 Stamens finally just exserted. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 362. 

 Veltheimia ahyssinica, Red. Lil. t. 186. 



irile Iiand. Abyssinia : Shoa ; Ankoher, Roth, 62 ! 



This is totally different from the South African K. pumila, with which Kunth 

 unites it. 



