508 CXL. LiLiACEiE (baker). [Chlorophytum. 



greenish-white, \ in. long; segments linear, with a laxly 3-nerved keel. 

 Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers oblong, minute. 

 Capsule \ in. diam. 



ITile Xtand. Jur : at Kurshook All's Seriba, Schweinfurth, 1745 ! 



47. C. tuberosum. Baker in J(mvn. Linn. Soc. xv. 332. Root-fibres 

 very dense, bearing large tubers at the end. Leaves 6-10 to a stem, 

 moderately firm, closely ribbed, lanceolate, glabrous, ^-1 ft. long, |^-1 in. 

 broad at the middle. Peduncle shorter than the leaves. Raceme 

 dense, 2-4 in. long, usually simple; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, the 

 lower 6-9 lin. long ; pedicels short, ascending, articulated at the middle, 

 the lower 2-3-nate. Perianth white, J in. long; segments oblong, 

 laxly nerved on the keel. Stamens distinctly shorter than the perianth ; 

 anthers J in. long, longer than the filaments. Capsule obovoid, J in. 

 long. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 161. Anthericumornithogaloides, 

 Hochst. ex A. 'Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 332. Phalangium ornitkogaloides, 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. 294. 



M"lle Iiand. Eritrea : Habab, Hildehrandt, 376 ! Galabat : Matamma, Schwein- 

 furth, 6 ! Steudner, 455 ! Abyssinia : Samen ; on the sides of a mountain near 

 Dcrragonsel, Schimper, 1261 ! Wochni, Steudner, 456 1 and without precise locality, 

 Schimper, 561 ! 



Mozainl). Blst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; below Marangu, 3000 ft., 

 Volkens, 2163 ! 



Also in Peninsular India. 



48. C. sufiPruticosuxn, Bak&i" in Journ. Bot. 1878,326. Rootstock 

 as thick as a man's finger. Leaves a dozen or more in a radical rosette, 

 moderately firm, glabrous, 1 J-2 ft. long, |-f in. broad at the middle, 

 acuminate, closely ribbed. Peduncle leafless, terete," glabrous, 1 ft. long. 

 Racemes simple, dense, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels very short, ascending, 

 articulated at the middle, the lower 2-3-nate; bracts lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the lower J in. long. Perianth J in. long ; segments white, 

 3-nerved in the brown keel. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; 

 anthers large, linear ; filaments short. 



wile Ziand. British East Africa : Nyika country, near Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



49. C. rhizomatosum. Baker in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 230. 

 Rootstock vertical, ^ in. diam., bearing many superposed relics of old 

 leaves. Produced leaves about 6 to a stem, firm, linear, acuminate, 

 glabrous, closely ribbed, not petiolate, 6-9 in. long, \-\ in. broad. 

 Peduncle slender, subterete, leafless, shorter than the leaves. Racemes 

 2, lax, erect, 3-4 in. long; bracts small, ovate, cuspidate, white, scariose ; 

 pedicels very short, the lower gemina.te. Perianth J in. long ; segments 

 oblong, obtuse, white with a laxly 3-nerved brown keel. Anthers linear, 

 J in. long ; filaments very short. 



IWozaxnb. Blst. Zanzibar, cultivated specimen. Kirk ! 

 Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, August, 1885. 

 May be an Anthericum. 



