EremurusJ] CLVI. LILIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 333 



Leaves 1-3 ft. by ^-3 in. Scape and raceme very stout, 2-3 ft. ; pedicels f in., 

 bracts subulate filiform. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; segments oblong, 1-nerved, about 

 equalling tbe filament. Capsule | in. diam. Seeds triquetrous. 



2. 22. persicus, Boiss. Diagn.vii. 119 ; Fl. Orient, v. 326 ; puberulous, 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate shorter than the pedicels, flowers white, filaments 

 shorter than the perianth, capsule smooth small broadly winged. Baker 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 284. Asphodelus persicus, Jaub. Sf Spach III. 

 PL Or. t. 102. 



NORTH-WEST INDIA ; Salt range, Mt. Sikesa, alt. 4-5000 ft., Aitchison. 

 DISTEIB. Affghan., Persia, Syria. 



Leaves 6-12 by i-J in. Scape 10-24 .in., simple, stout. Raceme 6-12 in. j 

 bracts in., scarious; pedicels 1 in., fruiting 2| in. horizontal. Flowers | in. diam., 

 segments white with a brown central band. Capsule 1 in. broad. Seeds black, 

 broadly 3-winged. Very variable in stature and in length and breadth of the 

 leaves. 



15. CHI.OROPHYTUBX, Ker. 



Characters of Anthericum, but capsule trigonous, deeply laterally 

 3-lobed with flattened lobes. Species about 40, tropical and subtropical. 



The species are most difficult of circumscription owing to the great variability 

 in the leaves and length and robustness of the scapes, and racemes. 



* Flowers in simple or shortly branched dense-fld. racemes, 

 f Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, if fully developed. 



1. C. Heyneanum, Wall. Cat. 5060; scape stout shorter than the 

 leaves naked, racemes short dense-fld., anthers shorter than the filaments, 

 cells of the oblong capsule 8-10-?eeded. C. Heynei, Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xv. 322. C. breviscapum, Thw. JSnum. 339. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne, &c. ; Nilghiri hills, alt. 6000 ft. Clarke. 

 CEYLON, common in the central province. 



Root-fibres tuberous. Leaves 12-18 by 1-1^ in., oblanceolate ; petiole 24 in. 

 Scape J-l in. ; bracts longer than the small flowers, pedicels i | in., jointed near 

 the tip. Perianth-segments i in., narrowly lanceolate. Capsule % in long. Seeds 

 black, shining. 



2. C. breviscapum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. Sot. ii. 141 ; scape 

 naked shorter than the leaves, raceme dense-fld., anthers as long as the 

 filaments, cells of the orbicular or obcordate capsule 1-3-seeded. Dalz. 

 $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 252. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, at the foot of the hills (fl. only), Clarke. The CONCAN, at 

 Malwan, Dalzel. 



Root-fibres tuberous. Leaves 12 by f-li in., linear-lanceolate, broadly petioled, 

 margins often crispulate. Scape stout, 3-6 in., rarely branched ; raceme 3-5 in., 

 bracts shorter than the flowers ; pedicels 55 in., jointed above the middle. 

 Perianth- segments | in., linear-oblong. Capsule % in. broad, seeds subglobose, 

 black, opaque. Differs from C. attvnuatum in the broader leaves and short scape. 



3. C. arundinaceum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 323 ; in 

 Gard. Chron. 1876, 260 ; scape usually tall naked, raceme elongate simple 

 or shortly branched, anthers longer than the filaments, cells of the small 

 orbicular capsule 3-4-seeded. Phalangium alatum, Herb. Ham. in Wall. 



