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4. LEDEBOURIA, Roth. 



1. L MACULATA, Dalz. loc. cit. Leaves obovate, glabrous, 

 wedge-shaped, attenuated into the petiole, purple spotted, and 

 never bearing bulbs ; flowers like those of the following, appear in 

 June. Common in the Concans and Deccan. 



2. L HYACINTHINA, Roth. nov. sp. 195. Root bulbous, as 

 in the preceding; leaves of a light-green colour, linear-oblong, 

 undulated, smooth, pretty long, bearing bulbs at the apex ; scapes 

 bearing a many-flowered raceme, of small, bluish, hyacinth-like 

 flowers. Kunth has confounded both species under this name. Bot. 

 Mag. 3226; Syn. Anthericum hyacinthoides, Willd. ; Erythronium 

 indicum, Rottl. fide Spring. This, as far as we know, is confined 

 to the Southern Concan. 



5. PHALANGIUM, Juss. 



1. TUBEROSUM, Kunth. Enum. iv, p 598. Roots very mnny, 

 fleshy, terminated by a small, oblong tuber; leaves radical, ensiform, 

 waved on the margin; scape round, naked; flowers panicled or 

 simply racemed, fascicled, small, white. There is some doubt as 

 to Roxburgh's Anthericum tuberosum being this species, as he 

 describes the flowers as large as snow drops ; possibly Roxburgh's 

 plant may be a species of the following genus, which has flat (not 

 angular) seeds. Very common in both Concans and Deccan. 



6. CHLOROPHYTUM, Gawler; HARTWEGIA, Nees. 



1. C ANTHERICOIDEUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 141. 2 

 feet high ; roots many, tuberous ; leaves radical ensiform, slightly 

 folded, margins waved, shorter than the naked scape, with 2 to 3 

 very short, simple branches ; flowers racemose, solitary or twin ; 

 pedicels half-an-inch long, articulated near the base ; filaments 

 covered with minute, papillose vesicles ; capsule triquetrous ; seeds 

 in each cell 5 to 6, compressed reniform ; testa black. The papillose 

 vesicles on the filaments place this in the genus Hartwegia ; but 

 this does not differ in any other respect from Chlorophytum. It 

 may be easily mistaken for the preceding, being very like it. In 

 the district of Malwan ; flowers in July. 



2. C PARVIFLORUM, Dalz. loc. cit. 8 to 10 inches high, 

 smooth ; tubers oblong, hanging from the fibres of the root ; 

 leaves erect, grass-like, linear folded, striated, longer than the 

 scape; scape simple, few-flowered; flowers solitary or sometimes 

 twin, with acuminate bracts ; filaments smooth, alternately a little 

 shorter ; anthers green ; pedicels articulated in the middle, droop- 



