CXXXITI. LILIACEJ;. 390 



spreadiiif^, the outer sometiinos shorter. Anthers G, sessile in 

 the throat of the corolUi or within the fleshy crown, 3 opposite 

 the inner segments higher on the tube than the others. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; ovules several ; style short, thick, terete ; 

 stigma entire or 3-lobed. Capsule oblong or turbinate. Seeds 

 black. — Kuntk, I. c. p. 4S0 ; llarv. Thes. t. 180. 



Scapigerous plants, with the odour of Garlic. Root of many tliick, 

 tufted fibres. Leaves narrow, linear. Scapes bearing many-llowered 

 umbels, subtended by 2 spathaceous bracts. Flowers yellow, brown or 

 rarely purple or violet. 



18. LITANTHUS, Harv. 



Perianth tubular, cylindrical, deciduous, the limb erect, 

 equal, shortly 6-fid ; lobes ovate, equal. Anthers 6, subsessile 

 in the throat, included. Ovary sessile, 3-celled, several- 

 ovuled ; style filiform, as long as the perianth-tube ; stigma 

 3-toothed. Capsule not seen. — Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. (1844), iii.j3. 314. 



A minute, bulbous plant, with 2-3 slender, filiform leaves ; a bristle-like 

 scape, 1-3 inches high, bearing at its summit a solitary, nodding, greenish 

 flower, 1^ line long and | line diameter, subtended by 2 opposite, membra- 

 nous, middle-fixed bracts. — Found by Zeyher, in IS-IS, near the Zwartkops 

 river; also by Drege (n. 8514, C.) ; and recently by H. Bowker and Mrs. 

 F. W. Barber, in Caifraria. 



Tribe 3. Antherice^. (G-en. 19-28.) 

 19. ALOE, Tourn. 



Perianth subcylindrical, straight or curved, sometimes ven- 

 tricose at base, nectariferous, deciduous, 6-parted or cleft, the 

 segments more or less connate among themselves, the 3 outer 

 gibbous at base, inner thinner ; limb sometimes irregular or 

 2-labiate. Stamens 6, hypogynous, ascending, erect, rarely 

 declined, equal or 3 shorter, included or rarely exserted. 

 Ovary sessile ; ovules numerous ; st\'le slender, sometimes 

 very short ; stigma simple or 3-lobed. Capsule membranous. 

 Seeds black. — Kunth, I. c. p. 492. 



A very large genus of succulents, chiefly South African. Root of many 

 thick, tufted fibres. Stem often shrubby, sometimes arborescent, simple or 

 branched, or very sliort. Leaves very closely set, amplexicaul, 3-5- or 

 many-ranked, sometimes disticlious, thick and flesliy, soft or very rigid, 

 smooth, rough, tubercled or prickly, more rarely tootlied or cihale. Pe- 

 duncles axillary or terminal, simple or branched, sometimes scape-like ; 

 flowers racemose, erect or pendulous, often gaily coloured. — Over 150 species, 

 natives of dry places, mountain-sides, and borders of woods. 



20. KNIPHOFIA, Mcench. 



Perianth tubular-subclavate, slightly curved, terete, 6- 

 nerved, nectariferous at base ; limb shortly 6-parted, regular ; 



