476 CXL. LiLiACE.E (baker). [Bitlbine. 



2. B. alooideS) Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 372 ? Leaves in a dense 

 basal rosette, fleshy, lanceolate, 4-5 in. long. Peduncle longer than the 

 leaves. Raceme simple, cylindrical, J ft. long, dense except towards 

 the base ; pedicels \-h in. long ; bracts small, lanceolate. Perianth 

 bright yellow, \ in. long. Stamens more than half as long as the 

 perianth. Style reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments. — Baker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc, xv. ;^>48. 



IMIozamb. Slst. British Central Africa : Xyasaland j Mount Chiradzulu, 

 Meller ! 



Is perhaps distinct from the Cape plant figured by Dillenius and in Eot. Mag. 

 1. 1317, but our material is very scanty. 



o. B. platyphylla, Baker in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 468. Rootstock 

 thick, globose, crowned with numerous fibres. Leaves 10-12 super- 

 posed on a short stem, oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, 4-0 in. long, Ih-- in. 

 broad. Peduncle 1-1^ ft. long. Raceme cylindrical, nearly 1 ft. long; 

 pedicels ascending, J-J in. long ; bracts minute. Perianth yellow, i in. 

 long ; segments oblong. 



Mozaxnl). Dist. German East Africa : Uniamwezi ; Gonda, Bohm, 21 ! 

 No specimen at Kew. 



11. ASPHODELUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 782. 



Perianth not cut down to the very base, as in Anthericum ; segments 

 6, oblong, subequal, spreading from above the base. Stamens 6, shorter 

 than the perianth, inserted at the base of the segments ; filaments 

 dilated and connivent at the base ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Ovary sessile, globose, o-celled ; ovules 2 in a cell, 

 collateral ; style subulate, slightly declinate ; stigma terminal, minute. 

 Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds often solitary, angled ; testa 

 crustaceous, grey or black, rugose ; albumen cartilaginous ; embryo 

 cylindrical. — Annual or perennial herbs. Rootstock not bulbous. 

 Leaves all radical, subulate. Racemes simple or branched ; pedicels 

 solitary, articulated ; bracts membranous. Flowers white : segments 

 keeled with brown. 



Species 6, natives of South Europe and the Mediterranean region, extending to 

 Northern India, Nubia> and Mauritius. 



1. A, fistulosus, Linn. var. tenuifolius, Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. XV. 272. Annual. Leaves many in a dense basal rosette, subulate, 

 erect, fistular, 6-9 in. long, tapering to the apex. Peduncle shorter 

 than the leaves. Panicle much-branched ; racemes lax, ascending ; 

 pedicels short, articulated at the middle ; bracts small, membranous, 

 ovate. Perianth \-\ in. long. Capsule globose, | in. diam. ; valves 

 transversely grooved. — A. tenuif alius, Cav. Anal. Cienc. !Nat. iii. 46, t. 27, 

 fig. 2 ; Icon. vi. 63, t. 587, fig. 2 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 558. A. intermedins, 

 Hornem. Hort. Hafn. Suppl. 131. A.cestivics, Reich. PI. Crit. t. 451. 



