CHLOROPHYTUM Orchidastrum: 
Orchis-like Chlorophytum. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ASPHODELEX. Brown prodr. 1. 274. 
CHLOROPHYTUM. Ker.—Perianthinm sexpartitum, patens, equa- 
le, persistens’ Stamina 6. Filamenta filiformia, glabra. Ovarium loculis 
‘polyspermis. Stylus filiformis.. Stigma 1. Capsula alt® triloba, lobis 
‘compressis,/ venosis, 3-locularis, 3-valvis. Semina pauca, compressa, um- 
bilico. nudo. Herbee glabre. Radix fasciculatus, fibris. nune carnosis. 
Folia radicalia, nervosa, linearia, quandogue latiora. Flores. racemosi, 
albi, pedicellis medio articulatis. Br. 1. c. 2°76. 
C. orchidastrum'; 2-pedalis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis 4’ basi'stricto paten- 
tibus; panicula ramosa stricta multiflora, ramis glabris. 
Acaulis, radicibus fibrosis carnosis. Folia 14 pedalia, lanceolata, acu- 
minata, subundulata, glaberrima, petiolo alato, canaliculato, stricto, la- 
mind patente. — Panicula racemosa, stricta, multiflora, rigida. Bractex 
spathacee, nigro-brunnee, plurime, exteriore acuminata pedicelli longitu- 
dine. Flores capitellati, cum pedicellis articulati, albi, subterni. Perian- 
thium rotatum, patens, 6-partitum, tubo perbrevi, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, 
intertoribus magis quam altera reflexis. Stamina 6, hypogyna, sepalorum 
longitudine, circa stylum erecta, conniventia. Filamenta jiliformia. “An- 
there innate, lincares,, antice, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, ‘lu- 
tee. Ovariuin parvum, subrotundum, trigonum,. angulis sulcatis, 3-loculare, 
ovulis circiter 8. Stylus filiformis. Stigma, minutum, fimbrillatum. _Cap- 
sula sepalorum vestigiis emarcidis vestita, subrotunda, triquetra, triloba, 
angulis acutis. Semina. cuique loculo 2-8, nigra, reniformia, compressa a 
medio placente centrali affixa. 
The genus Chlorophytum was first established by Mr. 
Ker, in the Botanical Magazine, upon a solitary species, a 
native of Sierra Leone. Another undescribed plant was 
added by Mr. Brown, in his Prodromus, with a reference 
of Anthericum elatum of the first edition of the Hortus 
Kewensis to the same genus. ‘To the first the species 
now published is nearly related. It is herbaceous, and 
taller in the leaves than C. mornatum, and its inflorescence 
is more compound and developed; but the flower itself is. 
precisely the same, as far as we have been able to perceive, 
in both species. 
Our drawing was made at the garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, from a plant sent from Sierra Leone, in 1822, . 
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