336 CLvi. LiLiAOE^. (J. D. Hooker.) {ChloropTiytum. 



10. C. orchldastram« lAnAl. in Bot. Beg. t. 813 ; in Trans. Sort. 

 Soc. vi. 79 ; scape tall naked panicialately branclied, branches spreading, 

 bracts small, flowers in distant pairs, cells of the broad small capsule 

 1-seeded. Kunth Enum. iv. 603 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 325. C. 

 Nimmonii, Balz. in Eoole. Kew Journ. Bot. ii. 142 ; Dalz. l( Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 252. Anthericam Nimmonii, Grah. Cat. Bomb. Fl. 220. Hartwegia 

 Nimmonii, Dalz. mss. Phalangium oligospermum, Wight Ic. t. 2038. 



The Deccan Peninsula, from the Ooncan southward to Travancore. — Distsib. 

 Tonkin, Trop. Africa. 



Uoot-fihres tuberous. Leaves 12-24 by 1^-4 in., elliptic-lanceolate. Scape 

 1-3 ft., branches long ascending bracteate at the base; bracts ovate; flowers 

 geminate drooping ; pedicels \-\ in. jointed about the middle. Perianth-segments 

 ■i in., white. Capsule 3 in. diam., broader than long, 2-lobed at the tip. Seeds 

 solitary, orbicular Or oblong, flat, opaque. 



11. C. lazum, Br. Prodr. 277 ; leaves subdistichous usually strongly 

 recurved, scape filiform flexuous, flowers minute, anthers didymous many 

 times shorter than the filaments, cells of broadly oboordate capsule 1-4- 

 seeded. Kunth Enum. iv. 603. C. laxiflorum, BaJcer in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XV. 328 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vii. 60. 0. falcatum. Baker in Saund. Befug. 

 Bot. t. 333. C. parviflorum, Balz. in Booh. Kew Journ. ii. 141 ; Balz. l( 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 251 ; Thw. Enum. 339. 0. abyssinicum, Kotschy & Peyr. 

 PI. Finn. 46. Phalangium falcatum. Wall. Gat. 6057 ; Kunth I. c. 600. 

 P. P parviflorum, Wight Ic. t. 2309. Anthericum parviflorum, Benth. Fl. 

 Songk. 373. Ornithogalum falcatum. Herb. Wight. Nolina? javanioa, 

 Hassh. Hort. Bogor. 27 ; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 554. 



The Deccan Peninsula ; from the Concan southward, common, and in Ceylon. 

 — DiSTEiB. Borneo, China, Trop. Africa and Austral. 



Soot-fibres tuberous. Leaves 6-12 by J-| in., grass-like or conduplicate or flat, 

 rather rigid. iSoape 1-12 in. , suberect or arched; flowers i-1 in. apai't; bracts 

 lanceolate, equalling the pedicels which are jointed in the middle. Perianth white, 

 segments J-i in. ; anthers green. Capsule i in. diam. Seeds angular, ^ in. diam. 



DOnBTFTJL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



12. C. ACAULB, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 327; root fibres smaller, leaves 

 6-9 by i-i in. narrowly linear, flowers 2-5 in a sessile corymb at the bases of the 

 leaves, fruiting pedicels erect J-J jointed, capsule ^ in. oblong emarginate, cells 

 turgid 3-5 seeded, seeds rather tumid black opaque. — India, Jerdon. — The only 

 specimen is flowerless. It is perhaps a state of 0- laxum. 



Phalangium NiVEUM, Potret Etoci/c!. 248 ; Kunth Enum. iv. 599. Anthericum 

 niveum, SchuU. f. Syst vii. 480, from India, Sonnerat, with long very dense-fld. 

 spikes, snow-white bracts as long as the flowers and a scape 12-15 in. ; may be 

 attenuatum. 



16. DIANEIiXiA, Lamh 



Boostoch usually branched, and stoloniferous. Leaves rigid, distichous, 

 linear, bases often equitant. Flowers in cymose panicles, nodding ; 

 pedicels jointed at the top. Perianth marcescent ; segment 6, distinct, 

 spreading. Stamens 6, typogynous, or the 3 inner on the bases of the 

 segments, filaments much thickened ; anthers basifixed between the lobes, 

 reflexed, opening by terminal pores or short slits. Owary 3-celled ; style 

 filiform, stigma minute ; cells 4-8-ovuled. Berry blue. Seeds few, ovoid 



