336 CLVI. LILIAOE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) [Chlorophytum. 



10. C. orchidastrum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 813 ; in Trans. Hort. 

 Soc. vi. 79 ; scape tall naked paniculately branched, branches spreading, 

 bracts small, flowers in distant pairs, cells of the broad small capsule 

 1-seeded. Kunth Enum. iv. 603 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 325. C. 

 Nimmonii, Dalz. in Hook.Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 142 ; Dalz. <$/ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 252. Anthericum Nimmonii, Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 220. Hartwegia 

 ISTimmonii, Dalz. mss. Phalangium oligospermum, Wight Ic. t. 2038. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan southward to Travancore. DISTEIB. 

 Tonkin, Tvop. Africa. 



Root-fibres tuberous. Leaves 12-24 by 1^-4 in., elliptic-lanceolate. Scape 

 1-3 ft., branches long ascending bracteate at the base; bracts ovate; flowers 

 geminate drooping ; pedicels \-\ in. jointed about the middle. Perianth-segments 

 in., white. Capsule % in. diam., broader than long, 2-lobed at the tip. Seeds 

 solitary, orbicular or oblong, flat, opaque. 



11. C. laxum, Br. Prodr. 277 ; leaves subdistichous usually strongly 

 recurved, scape filiform flexuous, flowers minute, anthers didymous many 

 times shorter than the filaments, cells of broadly obcordate capsule 1-4- 

 seeded. Kunth Enum. iv. 603. C. laxiflorum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 xv. 328 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 60. C. falcatum, Baker in Saund. Refug. 

 Bot. t. 333. C. parviflorum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Journ. ii. 141 ; Dalz. $" 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 251 ; Thw. Enum. 339. C. abyssinicum, Kotschy & Peyr. 

 PI. Tinn. 46. Phalangium falcatum, Wall. Cat. 5057; Kunth 1. c. 600. 

 P. ? parviflorum, Wight Ic. t. 2309. Anthericum parviflorum, Benth. Fl. 

 JLongTc. 373. Ornithogalnm falcatum, Herb. Wight. Nolina? javanica, 

 Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 27 ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 554. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA ; from the Concan southward, common, and in CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Borneo, China, Trop. Africa and Austral. 



Soot-fibres tuberous. Leaves 6-12 by ^ f- in., grass-like or conduplicate or flat, 

 rather rigid. Scape 1-12 in., suberect or arched; flowers -1 in. apart; bracts 

 lanceolate, equalling the pedicels which are jointed in the middle. Perianth white, 

 segments - in. ; anthers green. Capsule % in. diam. Seeds angular, i, in. diam. 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



12. C. ACAULE, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 327; root fibres smaller, leaves 

 6-9 by 55 in. narrowly linear, flowers 2-5 in a sessile corymb at the bases of the 

 leaves, fruiting pedicels erect ^ 5 jointed, capsule ^ in. oblong emarginate, cells 

 turgid 3-5 seeded, seeds rather tumid black opaque. India, Jerdon. The only 

 specimen is flowerless. It is perhaps a state of C- laxum. 



PHALANGIUM NIVEUM, Poiret Encycl. 248; Kunth Enum. iv. 599. Anthericum 

 niveum, Schult. f. Syst. vii. 480, from India, Sonnerat, with long: very dense-fld. 

 spikes, snow-white bracts as long as the flowers and a scape 12-15 in. j may be 

 attenuatum. 



16. DIANELLA, Lamlc. 



Roostock usually branched, and stoloniferous. Leaves rigid, distichous, 

 linear, bases often equitant. Flowers in cymose panicles, nodding; 

 pedicels jointed at the top. Perianth marcescent ; segment 6, distinct, 

 spreading. Stamens 6, hypogynous, or the 3 inner on the bases of the 

 segments, filaments much thickened ; anthers basifixed between the lobes, 

 relexed, opening by terminal pores or short slits. Ovary 3-celled ; style 

 filiform, stigma minute ; cells 4-8-ovuled. Berry blue. Seeds few, ovoid 



