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‘ Convallaria suaveolens 3 ; tube 5 — 5-| inches long, thin, green, slightly 
6-gonous and a little widened at the apex ; limb infundibuliform, white, 
b inches in diameter at the apex ; segments 3£-*3 1 inches long, \\ inch 
broad, spathulate, linear, very acute, in the middle of the back pale-green- 
lineate, expanded or more or less reflex, connate with the staminal cup 
for half the length of the stamens. Staminal cup campanulate ; stipular 
appendages narrowly triangular, separated from each other by acute 
sinuses, expanded, \ the length of the cup. Filaments white, erect, free 
part ■§• inch long ; anthers £ inch long, yellow, linear Style pale-green, 
slightly shorter than the filaments ; stigma capitate, trilobed. 
Flowers : — “ The plant flowered on the 6th day after a heavy shower 
when the leaves were fully developed on the 6th December 1888 33 
(Schweinf.). 
Locality : —Ravine and quarry near the Eastern Telegraph Office, 
plentiful between boulders at the foot of a very steep rocky slope of 
basaltic lava. (Schweinf*). 
Distribution : — S. Arabia, Nubia, 
Cultivated Species i 
According to Defiers the following plant is cultivated at Shaikh 
Othman : 
Polianthes tnberosa Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 316 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1817 j 
Trans. Hort. Soc. London I, 41, t. 2. 
Polianthes gracilis Link Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. Alt. I, 330, 
Polianthes mexicana Zucc. in Abhandl. Baier, Akad. Wiss. II (1837) 
319. 
English name : Tuberose. 
The root of this plant is a solid tuber of an irregular shape, sending 
forth lateral processes, upon which the buds of the future plant are 
formed. Grows 3—4 feet high. Leaves radical or on the lower part of 
the stem. Flowers white, very fragrant, in long terminal simple 
racemes ; perianth funnel-shaped. 
Generally cultivated in America, Asia, and Europe* Believed to be 
endemic in Mexico. 
LI.-LILIlCEdE. 
Herbs, very rarely shrubs or small trees, with fibrous roots or a 
' creeping rootstock, or a bulb or corm. Leaves various. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, axillary or terminal, solitary, or 
twin, or umbellate, spicate, racemose, paniculate or fasciculate ; bracts 
usually small, scarious, sometimes, when the flowers are umbellate, 
spathe-like. Perianth herbaceous or petaloid, usually 6-meious in 2 
