264 CXLIX. SCITAMINE^E. (J. G. Baker.) \_Low ia 



Ungulate bract folded round the calyx tube and others from the pedicel. 

 Calyx-tube long, very slender ; segments 3, lanceolate, reflexed. Corolla of 

 3 petals ; two upper small, lanceolate ; lower large, oblong, clawed. Fertile 

 stamens 5 ; filaments short, cylindric ; anthers linear, acuminate, 2-celled. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style long, slender, trif urcate at 

 the stigmatose apex. Fruit and seeds unknown. Orchidantha, -ZV. JS. 

 Sr. in Gard. Chron. 11. s. xxvi. (1886) 519. Also Borneo. 



Zi. long'iflora, Scortech. in Nuov. Giorn. Ital. xviii. 308, t. 11. 



PEBAK, in the province of Kinta, Scortechini, Kunstler. 



Whole plant 3-4 ft.; flower-bearing petiole l- ft., flowerless much shorter; 

 blade oblong 1 , 2-3 ft. Calyx-tube 45 in. ; segments rather shorter, 5 in. broad. 

 Upper petals equal, as long as the stamens; lower with a white oblong hlade 2 in. 

 long, narrowed suddenly to a rather shorter purple claw. Style an inch longer than 

 the calyx-tube ; branches of stigma channelled, margins toothed. 



Order CL. HJEIMODOR ACE2E. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves usually radical, distichous, narrow, nerve 

 parallel. Flowers bisexual, in terminal spikes racemes in panicles ; regular. 

 Perianth corolline, persistent ; lobes 6, biseriate, imbricate or iuduplicate- 

 valvate. Stamens 6, opposite the perianth-lobes or fewer ; anthers erect or 

 versatile, 2-celled, rarely opening by pores. Ovary inferior or subinferior ; 

 3-celled; stigma simple or 3-notched; ovules 1-many, on the inner angles 

 of the cells, anatropous or semianatropous. Fruit superior or inferior, 

 dehiscent or not. Seeds various; embryo small, partially enclosed in the 

 fleshy albumen. 



TRIBE I. Conostyleae. Ovary-cells many-ovuled. 



Flowers in a long simple spike or raceme . . . . 1. ALETRIS. 



TRIBE II. Ophiopogeneae. Ovary-cells 1-2-ovuled. 



Filaments connate in a ring closing t\ie mouth of the 



perianth 2. PELIOSANTHE^;. 



Filaments short, free. Perianth short superior . . .3. OPHIOPOGON. 



Filaments filiform. Perianth inferior tube slender , 4. SANSEVIERA. 



1. ALETRIS, Linn. 



Leaves radical, narrow. Scape leafless ; flowers small, short, spicate, 

 or racemed ; bracts 1-fld. Perianth-tube short, subcampanulate, lobes sub- 

 valvate. Stamens 6, on the bases of the lobes, filaments very short ; 

 anthers cvate or Ktibglobose. Ovary half -inferior, top conic, 3-celled ; style 

 3-partible, or 3-fid; ovules many, 2-seriate or elongate placentas. Capsule 

 half superior, loculicidally 3-valvcd. Seeds minute, oblong. Species 8, 

 N. American and Asiatic. 



Aletris litoralis, Ko3n. ; Wall. Cat. 5082, ifi Aloe vera, L. (A. perfoliata, 

 Willd.). 



1. A. nepalensis, Hook. f. ; leaves 5-7-nerved, flowers glabrous, 

 anthers subglobose, ovary glabrous, style very short, capsule globosely 

 ovoid. Tcfieldia nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 5097 ; Epyle 111. 385. Stachyo- 

 pogon i auciflorus & spicatus, KJotzsch in But. Reisc 1'r. Wald. 40, t. 94. 



