cxxxrir. i.rrjArE^F, lol 



simple or branclu'd. Flowers jointed witli tlie lon;^ pedicels, soon withering'. 

 — Man J species. 



24. CHLOROPHYTUM, Gawl. 



Periantli G-parted, regular, persistent, the sepals connate at 

 the very base, widely spreading, 3 outer sub-5-nerved, 8 inner 

 a little longer, narrower, 3-nerved. Stamens hypogynous, 

 subequal ; filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary sessile ; ovules 

 several ; style filiform, erect ; stigma truncate. Capsule 

 roundish, 3-angled, depressed, 3-lobed at the summit. Seeds 

 few, lenticular. — Kuiith, I. c. p. G02. AJao Ilartwegia, Nee.s, 

 (which has very minutely papulose filaments, and an acute 

 stigma, otherwise as in Chlorophytimi), Kuntli, I. c. j)- G07. 



Stemless plants, with fascicled, ilesliy roots. Leaves radical, linear or 

 lanceolate, membranous or rigid. Scape simple or branched. Flowei's so- 

 litary or in pairs, white within, green on tlie outside. — 6 Cape species. 



25. BOWIEA, Harv., not Haw. 



Perianth 6-parted, stellately-patent, persistent ; sepals 

 broadly subulate, 1 -nerved, somewhat keeled, uncinate-in- 

 flexed at apex. Stamens 6, at the base of the sepals, shorter 

 than them ; filaments filiform, glabrous, equal, spreading ; an- 

 thers sagittate at base, erect. Ovary sessile, oval-oblong, 

 3-celled ; ovules few (5-6) in each cell ; style filiform, erect ; 

 stigma simple, subcapitate. Capsule coriaceous, ovate-ob- 

 long, 3-cornered, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds about 

 4 in each cell, angular subpyriform, black ; placentas at the 

 apex prolonged into a slender, horn-like ])rocess. — Bo(. Mag. 

 f. 5619. 



B. volubUis, Harv., is a bulbous plant, when young bearing a few filiform, 

 terete, radical leaves; from the top of the bulb ascends a long, twining, 

 voluble, succulent, branching panit'le, bearing many times forked bi-anchlets 

 in the lower part, and long, pedicclled, laxly-racemose, greenish-white 

 flowers in the upper. Branchlets filiform, each subtended by a minute 

 subulate bract, as are also the pedicels. Pedicels either continuous or 

 jointed at a variable distance below the flower ! — The genus Botoiea 

 of Haworth, having been long since merged in Jloe, I wisli to give the 

 name of Mr. James Bowie to the present very singular plant, whicli was 

 discovered on the Katberg by Mr. Hutton, and has since been found by 

 Cooper and by Mrs. Bowker on the Isomo, Cafi'raria. 



■ 26 ? CJESIA, E. Br. 



Perianth G-parted, regular, s|)irally-t\vasted after {lowering, 

 deciduous ; sepals subconnate at base, 3-nerved, widely spi-e:id- 

 ing, the inner scarcely wider. Stamens at the base of the 

 sepals and shorter; "filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary 

 sessile ; ovules in pairs, erect ; style filiform, elongate, erect. 

 Capsule 3-lobed; cells l-see<led, l.x-ulirldal. Seeds black.— 

 Kunik, I. c. 'p. 608. 



