514 CXL. LiLiACE.E (baker). [Dasi/stuch^s. 



14. D, colubrina, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 250; 

 t. ''dl),figs. 5-10. Rootstock tuberous, oblique; old leaves splitting into 

 copious fibres. Rudimentary leaves lanceolate, with copious red-brown 

 spots. Produced leaves 5-6, linear, glabrous, subcoriaceous, a foot long, 

 \ in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to the base and apex. 

 Peduncle a foot long, terete, bearing 2-^^ reduced leaves. Raceme 

 simple, subspicate, oblong, 1 1-2 in. long; bracts purple, setaceous from a 

 broad base, the lower \-\ in. long. Perianth \ in. long; segments white, 

 with a 1-nerved red-brown keel. Stamens exserted; anthers much 

 shorter than the filaments. Capsule \ in. diam. — Chlorophytum colu- 

 hrinum, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 1 Q'2. 



Xio-wer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in rocky pastures, 5000-6000 ft., Wel- 

 witsch, 3784 ! 



15. D. papillosa, Baker. Rootstock woody, irregular in shape; 

 root-fibres slender ; crown scarcely at all setose. Central leaves linear, 

 a foot or more long; ^ in. broad, glabrous on the surface, ciliated on 

 the margin. Peduncle subterete, 1 J ft. long, bearing several small 

 reduced leaves. Raceme 2-3 in. long ; pedicels very short ; bracts subu- 

 late from a dilated scariose base. Perianth 3J lin. long, brownish, 

 densely papillose outside ; segments linear-oblong. Stamens much 

 exserted ; anthers linear-oblong, ^ in. long. — Chlorophytum ( Dasy- 

 stachys) papillosum, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 422. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : between the coast and Uyui, Taylor. 

 No specimen at Kew. 



16. TULBAGHIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, iii. 798. 



Perianth gamophyllous ; tube oblong ; segments lanceolate, sub- 

 equal, spreading, as long as or shorter than the tube. Corona inserted 

 at the throat of the perianth-tube, cup-shaped or consisting of 3 distinct 

 entire or bifid processes. Stamens 6, inserted in two rows ia the tube 

 of the perianth ; filaments very short ; anthers oblong. Ovary sessile, 

 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style cylindrical ; stigma capitate. 

 Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds compressed; testa lax, black; 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo cylindrical. — Rootstock slightly tuberous ; 

 root-fibres many, slender. Leaves all radical, linear, often smelling of 

 garlic. J'oduncle long, slender. Flowers small, umbellate. 



Species about 12, all the others are natives of South Africa. 



Corona very narrow, deeply lobed . . . . 1, T. cequinoctialis. 



Corona cup-shaped, subentire. 



Perianth-segments as long as the tube . . . 2. T. Cameroni. 



Perianth-segments f thp length of the tube . , 3. T. BragcB. 



Perianth-segments \ the length of the tube . . 4. 2^. alliacea. 



1. T. sequinocttalis, Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. i. 246. Corm ovoid, J-J in. diameter ; outer tunics brown, mem- 

 branous. Leaves 3-5, narrowly linear, 4-6 in. long. Peduncle longer 



