270 CL. H^EMODOBACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ophiopogon. 



ASSAM ', Mrs. Mack. 



In foliage this resembles 0. Malcolmsoni, but the flowers are minute, with much 

 shorter perianth-segments, and very different anthers, the seeds also are smaller and 

 globose. 



8. O. Grriffithiij Hook. f. ; leaves very narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 

 6-10 by i_.3. i n< many-nerved narrowed into a very slender petiole, tips 

 obtuse, scape stout compressed, raceme lax-fld., pedicels very short. 

 Muggea Griffi.thii, Balcer in Jour it. Linn. Soc. xvii. 502. 



UPPER ASSAM ; on the Patkoye hills, alt. 4500 ft., G-riffith. 

 A very distiuct-looHug species, from the elliptic petioled leaves but not in 

 flower. Baker describes the seeds as solitary oblong ^ in. long, blue. 



9. O. prolifera, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. I (1846), 76 ;_ rootstock 

 climbing and rooting, leaves f in. broad ensiform de curved bright green, 

 scape bright purple, flowers subsessile clustered obovate between fleshy 

 and spongy, stamens united by a short fleshy ring, ovary thin-skinned 

 adherent but not growing to the ovary -^-celled, ovules 2 erect in each cell, 

 style pyramidal, stigmas 3 point-like. Maxim. Mel. Bot. vii. 129. Fluggea ? 

 prolifera, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 502. 



PENANG. T. Lewis (Cult, in Hort. Soc. Gardens, 1845). 



I have seen no specimen. A sketch of that in the Lindley Herbarium (now at 

 Cambridge) represents fragments of two strongly striated leaves 6-10 in: long, 

 without apices and a stout scape, with clusters of flowers about in. diam. sub- 

 tended by broad ovate bracts. It a good deal resembles Liriope. 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



O. INDIQUS, Royle mss. III. 382 (name only). 



O. MINOR, Royle mss. I.e. (name only), from Turanda in Kumaon, is probably 

 intermedia, var. pauciflora. 



O. MOLLIS, Royle mss. I.e. (name only), "common in the Himalaya from the 

 Ganges to the Sutlej," is probably Theropogon pallidus. 



O. ? PALLIDUS, Wall. Cat. 5138, is Theropogon pallidus. 



O. SPICATUS, Ker-Gawl. ; said by Don (Prodr. 47) to be from Nepal, Wallich, 

 is Liriope spicata, a native of Japan and China, not hitherto found In India. 



OPHIOPOGON, sp. ? Munnipore, Watt, a small species not in flower, possibly 

 the Japanese 0. japonicus. 



4. SANSEVXEia?^ Thurk. 



Stout herbs with a short often stoloniferous roots-jto .arrow, 



cartilaginous or fleshy flat or terete, nerves immersed. .Su.^ stout*; 

 flowers racemose. Perianth- tube long, slender, lobes narrow, t-faniens 6, 

 on tlie leaves of the lobes ; filaments filiform ; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 

 superior, attached by a broad base,3-celled; style filiform, stigma simple ; 

 ovules solitary, erect in each cell. Fruit membranous, indehiscent. Seeds 

 1-3 ripening outside the pericarp globose, all large, or 1-2 imperfect ; testa 

 long, fleshy or succulent. Species 10, Indian and African. 



1. S. zeylanica, Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 159 ; leaves 1-2 ft. ensiform semi- 

 terete attenuate from the base to the acuminate lip, deeply channelled 

 above, barred with green and edged with red, raceme short, flowers 1| in. 

 long. Eedoute Liliac, t. 290 ; Bot. Reg. t. 160 ; Kunth Enum. PL v. 18 ; 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 548. Aletris zeylanica, Mill. diet. No. 4. 

 A. hyacinthoides, var. zeylanica, Linn. Sp. PI. i. 456. Aloe zeylanica, 

 Jacq. Enum. Stirp. Agu. Yindot. 310. 



