ee 
A ed eat II an, a a RTE no IN GE oe NF Thi RE in Va. ONS Phe He 
Sansevieria.} HHMODORACE A, 1053 
inferior, with a xb conical apex ; stigma subsessile, 3-lobed ; ovules in 
each cell 2 or mo Peliosanthes. 
Filaments ae to perianth-lobes, filiform, not conn vary 
superior; style filiform; stigma simple; ovules in each se gin oe 
erila. 
946. Peliosanthes Andr. 
erbs with horizontal rootstocks ; ; leaves narrow, linear or lan- 
ceolate, eben nerved. Flow mall, racemose, on erect 
Scapes; bracts se us. Per uti superior ; lobes 6, ual, 
spreading, connat Bate ina short c te tube Tesh 
6; fil ts very short, co t — the 
and resting on the base of the withered perianth, the tube of 
Which is fleshy or succulent; — incompletely embedded in 
the base of the hard, fleshy albumen 
Bracts S many-flowered .. se 
Bracts 1-flowered sears 
2177. Peviosanrues Teta Andr.; F. B. 1. vi. 265. Teta viridi- 
Jlora F. I. ii. 165. 
Chittagong. 
A scapigerous herb, with a rather large rootstock. 
2178. PeLiosanrues vionacea Wall.; F. B. I. vi. 
Chittagong. 
A scapigerous herb, with a rather large rootstock. 
947. Sansevieria Thunb. 
Stout herbs with a short, often stoloniferous rootstock ; leaves 
i ths 
rianth-lobes ; ts filiform ; 
thers dorsifixed Carpels 8, connate in a 3-celled ovary, adnate 
Y its rae base to the th-tube, elsewhere free; ovules 
