264 cxLix. SCITAMINB& (J. G. Baker.) [Loioia- 



lingulate bract folded round the calyx tube and others from the pedicel. 

 Oal^x-tnhe long, very slender ; segments 3, lanceolate, reflexed. Corolla pi 

 3 petals ; two upper small, lanceolate ; lower large, oblong, clawed. Fertile 

 stamens 5 ; filaments short, cylindric ; anthers linear, acuminate, 2-celled. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style long, slender, trif urcate at 

 the stigmatose apex. Fruit and seeds unknown. OrcMdantha, N. M. 

 Br. in Gard. Chron. n. s. xxvi. (1886) 519. — Also Borneo. 



la. long'iflora, Bcortech. in, JSfuov. Oiorn. Ital. xviii. 308, t. 11. 



Peeak, in the province of Kinta, Scortechini, Kunstler. 



■Whole plant 3-4 ft.; flower-bearing /jeJioZe IJ ft., flowerless much shorter; 

 blade oblong, 2-3 ft. OalyX'tvhe 4-5 in.j segments rather shorter, J in. broad. 

 Upper ^eiafa equal, as long as the stamens; lower with a white oblong blade 2 in. 

 long, narrowed suddenly to a rather shorter purple claw. Style an inch longer than 

 the calyx-tube; branches of stigma channelled, margins toothed. 



Order CL. KSimODORACEH:. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves usually radical, distichous, narrow, nerve 

 parallel. Flowers bisexual, in terminal spikes racemes in panicles, regular. 

 Perianth coroUine, persistent ; lobes 6; biseriate, imbricate or induplicate- 

 valvate. Stamens 6, opposite the perianth-lobes or fewer ; anthers erect or 

 versatile, 2-celled, rarely opening by pores. Owary inferior or subinferior ; 

 3-celled ; stigma simple or 3-notched ; ovules 1-many, on the inner angles 

 of the cells, anatropous or semianatropous. Fruit superior or inferior, 

 dehiscent or not. /Seecfs various ; embryo small, partially enclosed in the 

 fleshy albumen. 



Tbibb I. Conostyleae. Ovary-cells many-ovnled. 



Flowers in a long simple spike or raceme . . . .1. Alitbis. 



Tbiee II. Ophiopog-eneaB. Ovary-cells 1-2-ovuled. 

 Filaments connate in a ring closing the mouth of the 



perianth 2. Pbliosanthes. 



Filaments short, free. Perianth short superior . . .3. Ophiopogon. 

 Filaments fllifbrra. Perianth inferior tube slender , . 4. Sansevieba. 



Leaves radical, narrow. Scape leafless ; flowers small, short, spicate, 

 or racemed ; bracts 1-fld. Perianth-tuhe short, subcampanulate, lobes siib- 

 valvate. Stamens 6, on the bases of the lobes, filaments very short ; 

 anthers cvate or subglobose. Ovary half -inferior, top conic, 3-celled ; style 

 3-partible, or 3-fid; ovules many, 2-seriate or elongate placentas. Capsule 

 half superior, loculicidally 3-valvcd. Seeds minute, oblong.— Species 8, 

 N. American and Asiatic. 



Aletris Utoralis, Keen. ; Wall. Cat. 5082, in Aloe vera, L. {A. perfoliaia, 

 Willd.). 



1. A. nepalensis, Sook. f. ; leaves 6-7-nerved, flowers glabrous, 

 anthers subglobose, ovary glabrous, style very short, capsule globosely 

 ovoid. Tofieldia nepalensis, Wall. Cat. 5097 ; Boyle 111. 385. Stachyo- 

 pogon i^auciflorus & spicatus, Kloizsch in Bot. Eeise Pr. Wald. 49, t. 94. 



