Asphodehcs.] cxl. liliace^ (baker). 477 



A. microcarpus, Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 51;>, fig. 1116, noii Viv. 

 A. parviflorus, Wight, Ic. t. 2062. 



Wile Z.and. Xubia : Berber, Kotschy, 356 ! 357 ! and without precise locality 



Bent ! 



■ Also in the Canaries, Peninsular India, and Mauritius, 



12. ACROSPIRA, Welw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 787. 



Perianth elongated, subpolyphyllous ; segments lanceolate, subeqiial, 

 ascending, ;^-5-nerved on the back. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of 

 the perianth-segments ; filaments short, rather flattened ; anthers large, 

 linear, basitixed, spirally recurved at the tip when fading. Ovary sub- 

 globose, sessile ; ovules many in a cell, superposed ; style long, subulate, 

 slightly declinate ; stigma capitate. Fruit and seeds unknown. 



Endemic, Monotypic. 



1. A. asphodeloides^ Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. i. 255, t. "34:, Jigs. 4-7. Rootstock thick, oblique; root-fibres many, 

 slender. Leaves 5-6 in a radical rosette, firm, ensiform, glabrous, 

 2-3 ft. long, 1-1 J in. broad low down. Peduncle very long, furnished 

 with many reduced leaves. Racemes 1-1 J ft. long; simple or furnished 

 with 1-2 short branches at the base ; lower flowers 3-4 in a cluster ; 

 pedicels short, unequal; bracts small, ovate. Perianth white, 9-10 lin. 

 long ; segments ^ in. broad. Anthers yellow, |-J in, long. 



ILower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; frequent on high rocky ground, 

 Welwitsch; ^111 ! 3778 ! 3779 ! 



13. ANTHERICUM, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI, iii. 788. 



Perianth persistent, polyphyllous ; segments subequal, 3-5-nerved 

 on the back, spreading from the base. Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter 

 than the perianth ; filaments smooth or scabrous ; anthers linear, basi- 

 fixed, dehiscing down the face. Ovary globose, sessile ; ovules few in a 

 cell, superposed ; style subulate ; stigmas small, capitate. Capsule 

 oblong-trigonous, not deeply lobed, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds angular, 

 not compressed ; testa black, opaque ; albumen cartilaginous ; embryo 

 cylindrical. — Rootstock not bulbous ; root-fibres slender, often producing 

 small tubers. Leaves in a basal rosette, linear. Inflorescence racemose, 

 often panicled ; pedicels usually articulated at the middle or apex ; 

 bracts persistent. Flowers small, white. 



Species iOO, cosmopolitan, concentrated in Tropical and South Africa. 

 Subgenus Phalangium. Pedicels articulated at the 



middle. Filaments glabrous. 

 Leaves subterete. 



Raceme simple 1. A. ustulalum. 



Racemes panicled -• ^- calyptrocarpum. 



Leaves linear, glabrous. 



Perianth ^V in. long 3. .4. incompkuutn. 



