
Refugium Botanicun.| [ June, 1878. 
TAB. 352. 
Natural Order Liniace%. 
Tribe ANTHERICE. 
Genus Cunoropuytum, Rh. Br. 
CG. Bowxerr (Baker). Foliis radicalibus 6—8 lorato-lanceolatis 
ultra pedem longis 14 poll. latis viridibus carnosis falcatis ad 
apicem angustatis, caule subpedali foliis 1—2 bracteiformibus 
instructo, racemo simplici denso subpedali, pedicellis ascen- 
dentibus brevibus medio articulatis sepe ceminatis, bracteis 
lineari-subulatis, perianthio semiunciali segmentis albis late 
vittatis, cara nervis 4—5 parallelis instructa, filamentis 
filiformibus perianthio triplo brevioribus, ovarii loculis 20-—80- 
ovulatis, stylo declinato ovario duplo longiore. 
A native of the North-eastern district of Cape Colony, sent to 
England in a living state by Mr. Bowker. 
Root of thick fleshy fibres. Leaves six to eight in a basal 
rosette, lorate-lanceolate, a foot to a foot and a quarter long, an 
inch and a half broad at the base, narrowed gradually to the 
point, channelled down the face in the lower half, fleshy, bright 
green, recurved, the veins immersed. Stem terete, a foot high, 
bearing one or two much-reduced bract-like leaves. Raceme 
simple, close, a foot long, an inch and a quarter broad when 
expanded. Pedicels much ascending, articulated at the middle, 
the lower in pairs, a quarter of an inch long. Bracts linear- 
subulate, scariose, half to three-fourths of an inch long. Perianth 
tender, pure white, half an inch long; the segments spreading 
horizontally when expanded, oblong, bluntish, with a broad keel 
down the centre containing four or five close distinct parallel 
nerves. Stamens hypogynous ; filaments filiform, two lines long ; 
anthers basifixed. Ovary oblong, sessile, with twenty to thirty 
ovules in each cell; style very declinate, filiform, twice as long as 
the ovary. 
Tap. 352.—1, a single flower; 2, pistil ; 3, horizontal section ph 
ovary: all magnified.—J. Ge Bs 

The figure of this plant is taken from a specimen which 
flowered in the Royal Gardens at Kew. IT am indebted to my 
friend Dr. Hooker, the Director of that noble establishment, for 
the opportunity of placing this interesting plant, and the Dracena 
latifolia, which immediately follows, in the ‘Refugium. —W.W.S. 
