DIOSCOREACE^ LILIACE^. 653 



V2. glabra, Roxb. {fl, ind. 3, p. 804.) % '^\ Lower Bengal. Peninsula of 

 India, west of the Ganges. Silhet. Sukanaghur. Introduced into H. C. 

 G. in 1812, but had not fl. in 1814. 



13. heterophylla, Roxb, {fl. ind. 3, p. 804.) % ^> Penang. Moluccas. 

 Introduced into H. C. G. in 1798, and a O^ plant fl. for the first time 

 in Oct. and Nov. 1809. 



14. oppositi/olia, L. (Spreng. syst. 2, p. 154 ; — Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 804 ; 

 — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 219.) %.'^^ Coromandel. Mahableshwur. 

 The Ghauts, about Kandalla. Has been introduced into H. C. G. ? 



15. dcemona, Roxb. {fl. ind. 3, p. 805. — Ubium silvestre, Rumph. 5, t. 

 127.) C5^ v.-' Goruckpore forests. Moulccas. Fl. R. S, — Root very nau- 

 seous, even after it has been boiled. {Roxb.) 



\6.pentaphylla, L. {Spreng. syst. 2, p. 151. — Roxb. fl. ind. 3, p. 806; — 

 /. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 218, excl. syn. Rumph.— /J^eerf 7, t. 34, 35.) 

 ^W1 '^Tt^ Kanta-aloo. % '~^ Bengal, (Serampore.) Monghyr. Mo- 

 rung. Vendalore. Silhet. Kemaon. Not cultivated, though the root is 

 large, white, and reckoned very wholesome and palatable, and eaten 

 by the Natives. Fl. R. S. 



* Tamus communis, L. ; E. B. 2, t. 91. % England. S. Europe. Middle 

 Asia. — T. cretica, L. %. Candia. — Dioscorea triphylla, L. %. /^\ Mo- 

 luccas. Both Concans. — D. verticillata. Lam. Java. — D. bulbifera, L., 

 New Holland. Both Concans. — D. sativa, L. Moluccas. Coromandel. 

 — Z). cirrhosa, Lour. Cochin China. — D. versicolor, Buch. Assam. 

 Monghir. Nepal. Prome. Tavoy. — D. acutangula, Buch. Gualpara. — D. 

 tomentosa, Spreng. Travancore. Gingee. — D. belophylla, (D. sagittata, 

 Royle ; — not Poir.) N. India. — D. trifoliata, Humb. Caracas. — D. 

 triflda, L. fil. Surinam. — D. cayennensis, Lam. Cayenne. — D. lutea, 

 Meyer. Surinam. — D. altissima, Lam. Martinique. — D. piperifolia, 

 Humb. S. America. — D. lucida, R. Br. Tropical N. Holland. — D. 

 punctata, R. Br. Tropical N. Holland. — D. transversa, R. Br. Tropical 

 N. Holland. — Rajania quinque/olia, L., W. Indies. — R. cordata, L., 

 W. Indies. — R. angustifolia, Swz. St. Domingo. 



ORDER CCXLIII.— LILIACE^. DC— Endl. gen. pi. I, p. 139. 



THE LILY TRIBE. 



Scattered widely over the world, but much more abundant in temperate 

 climates than in the tropics. Aloes are mostly found in S. Africa. One 

 species is a native of the W. Indies, and two or three more of Arabia and 

 the East. Dracaenas, the most gigantic of the order, attain their largest 

 size in the Canaries. Dracaena Draco is described in the Annales des 



