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— Stemless, perennial, stoloniferous plants: rhizome thick, creeping: 

 leaves radical, lanceolate, thick and hard, often fasciated, sheathing 

 at the base: scape proceeding from the centre of the leaves, 

 braoteate, simple, racemosely many- flowered at the apex : flowers 

 fasoiculately heaped together by fours or sixes, bracteolatp, greenish- 

 white, or greenish-yellowish: pedicels jointed above tli middle; 

 perianth attenuated at the base into the pedicel, 



(1) S. EOXBFEGHIAITA. fScJmU.) 



Idmt. Schult syst. vii. 357. Kuuth Enum. pi. v. p. 18. 

 S. Zeylanioa, Roxb.flor. Ind. II. 161. ■■ ■ 



Eoxb. Cor. II. t. 184.— Eheede Mai. xi. t. 42. 



■ ' Spec. C^ae. Leaves deeply channelled, , striated, spotted : 

 flowering scape central, higher : flowers numerous, purplish. • 



Malabar. Travancore. Cpromandel. Common in rocky places. 

 Flowering in the rainy season. 



GElSmS IV. A?LOE. • ■ ■; 



Hexandvia. Monog^ynla. Sex: Sysu 



Berw. From Alloeh, the Arabic name. 



Gen. Chae. Calyx 6-sepaled, straight or curved, sometimes 

 ventricose at the base, deciduous, outer sepals gibbous at the 

 jbase, inner op,es thinner, free above, spreading or recurved at 

 the apex :. stamens hypogynous, enclosed or seldom exserted, 

 filaments filiform, distinct, anthers 2-celled, introrse, deeply 

 2-cleft at the base: ovary free, sessile, 3-celled: ovules- many, 

 biseriate, straight, incumbent on a fleshy cupular cushion, and 

 adnate lengthways : style terminal; thin, 3-furrowed, stigma 

 simple or 3-lobed, papillose : capsule 3-celled, looulipidally 3-valved, 

 valves septiferous in the middle, central column none : seeds un- 

 equally •tai'angular or lenticular-compressed, dark, covered with aril 

 at the margius^ testa sub-crustaceous, dark : embryo cylindric, 

 straight, axile, scarcely shorter than the fleshy albumen. 



(1) A. Indica. (RoyhiJ 



IdenU Koyle 111. p. .390. 



Syn. A. perfoliata, Roxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 167. 



Spec. ChAb. Leaves ensiform, dentate, erect: calyx none : 

 racemes reflexed, cylindric : flowers large, red. 



North Western provinces, in dry situations. 



