Eremurus.'] clvi. liliace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 333 



Leaves 1-3 ft. by i-3 in. Scape and raceme very stout, 2-3 ft. ; pedicels f in., 

 bracts subulate filiform. Flowers 1 in. diam. ; segments oblong, 1-nerved, about 

 equalling the filament. Capsule i in. diam. Seeds triquetrous. 



2. E. perslcus, Boiss. Diagn. vii. 119 ; Fl. Orient, v. 326 ; pubernlous, 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate shorter than the pedicels, flowers white, filaments 

 shorter than the perianth, capsule smooth small broadly winged. Saker 

 in Joum. Linn. 8oc. xv. 284. Asphodelus persicns, Jaub. &■ Bvach III. 

 PI. Or. 1. 102. f . ^ i- 



Noeth-Webt India ; Salt range, Mt. Sikesa, alt. 4^5000 ft., Aitohison.— 

 DiSTBiB. Affghan., Persia, Syria. 



Leaves 6-12 by ^J in. Scape 10-34 in., simple, stout. Raceme 6-12 in. j 

 bracts J in., scarions ; pedicels 1 in., fruiting 2i in. horizontal. Mowers J in. diam., 

 segments white with a brown central band. Capsule 1 in. broad. Seeds black, 

 broadly 3-winged. — Very variable in stature and in length and breadth of the 

 leaves. 



15. CHXiOROPKVTUnX, £:er. 



Characters of Antherieibm, but capsule trigonous, deeply laterally 

 3-lobed with flattened lobes. — Species about 40, tropical and subtropical. 



The species are most difficult of circumscription owing to the great variability 

 in the leaves and length and robustness of the scapes, and racemes. 



* Flowers in simple or shortly branched dense-fld. racemes. 



t Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, if fully developed. 



1. C. Keyneanum, Wall. Cat. 5060; scape stout shorter than the 

 leaves naked, racemes short dense-fld., anthers shorter than the filaments, 

 cells of the oblong capsule 8-10-seeded. 0. Heynei, Baker in Joum, Linn. 

 Soe. XV. 322. C. breviscapum, Thw. JEnv/m. 339. 



The Deooan Peninsula, Heyne, &c. ; Nilghiri hills, alt. 6000 ft. Clarice. 

 Oetlok, common in the central province. 



Root-fibres tuberous. Leaves 12-18 by 1-lf in., oblanceolate ; petiole 2-4 in. 

 Scape i-1 in. j bracts longer than tlie small flowers, pedicels i-J in., jointed near 

 the tip. Peria/nth-segments i in., narrowly lanceolate. Capsule i in long. Seeds 

 black, shining. 



2. C. toreviscapum, Dalz. in Hook. Kew Joum. Bot. ii. 141 ; scape 

 naked shorter than the leaves, raceme dense-fld., anthers as long as the 

 filaments, cells of the orbicular or obcordate capsule 1-3-seeded. Dalz. 

 Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 252. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, at the foot of the hills (fl. only), Glavlee. The Concan, at 

 Malwan, JJalzel. 



Soot-flbres tuberous. Leaves 12 by f-li in., linear-lanceolate, broadly petioled, 

 margins often crispulate. Seape stout, 3-6 in., rarely branched; raceme 3-5 in., 

 bracts shorter than the flowers; pedicels i-J in., jointed above the middle. 

 JPtrianth.segments ^-J in., linear-oblong. Capsule i in. broad, seeds subglobose, 

 black, opaque. — ^Differs from C. attenuatum in the broader leaves and short seape. 



3. C. arundinaceum, Baker in Jov/rn. Linn. Soc. xv. 323 ; in 

 Gard. Chron. 1876, 260 ; scape usually tall naked, raceme elongate simple 

 or shortly branched, anthers longer than- the filaments, cells of the small 

 orbicular capsule 3-4-seeded. Phalanginm alatiim, Serb. Sam. in Wall. 



