332 CLVI. LILIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 
13. ASPHODELUS, Linn. 
Annual, or perennial, root-fibres slender or fleshy. Leaves radical, 
linear, triquetrous, or terete and fistular. Flowers racemed, solitary m 
the bracts. Perianth white, marcescent, 6-partite, segments conniving ln 
a tube below. Stamens 6, hypogynous ; filaments dilated at the base and 
embracing the ovary, inserted in a pit of the dorsifixed versatile anther. 
Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, stigma sub-3-lobed ; ovules 2 collateral in 
each cell. Capsule usually 1-seeded, loculicidal. Seeds 3-quetrous, testa 
black appressed ; embryo nearly as long as the cartilaginous albumen.— 
Species 6 or 7, S. Europe and eastward to India. 
1. A. tenuifolius, Cavan. in Anal. Cienc. Nat. ii. 46, t. 27; and 
Icon. t. 587, f. 2; annual, leaves slender semi-terete fistular and scape 
smooth or papillosely scaberulous, pedicels jointed below the middle, 
perianth-segments white with a brownish costa, filaments fusiform to- 
wards the tip. Kunth Enum. iv. 558. A. æstivus, Reichb. Ic. Crit. i 
451. A. microcarpus, Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 513. A. clavatus, Bac), 
Fl. Ind. à. 148; Wall. Cat. 5058; Kunth l.c. 559. A. parviflorus, 
Wight Ic. t. 2062 (bad. pauciflorus, in teat vi. p. 297.) A. fistulosus, 
var. tenuifolius, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 272. A. tenuifolius, var. 
micranthus, Boiss. Fl. Or. e 314. 
Plains of INDIA, in fields, from Bengal westwards to Guzerat and the Punjab. 
—Distrin. Westward to the Canary Islds. 
Leaves 6-12 in., erect, about Je in. diam., acuminate. Scape 14-3 ft., terete, 
often excessively scopariously branched. Racemes lax-fid.; pedicels 4-4 led. 
Perianth-segments 4 in. long. Capsule globose, } in. diam., valves deeply wrinkled, 
Seeds trigonous, with 3-4 dorsal ridges and as many lateral pits.— Probably in 
Baker considers it, a form of the European A. fistulosus, but always much BEL 
especially the flowers, and with the pedicel jointed below the middle. Wig fi 
figure is very incorrect as regards the filaments, he is unable to give any wr 
for the specimen figured, which he supposes is from the sandy soils of the Has 
Coast of the Deccan. 
2. A. comosus, Baker in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 799; leaves ensiform 
18 by 13 in., peduncle very stout, racemes panicled dense-fld. 
LAHUL, in the Rolang Pass, Jaeschke. ft. ; 
Habit of A. albus and ramosus, Leaves rather thick. — Peduncle 2 de 
panicle 1 ft., pedicels 1-4 in., ascending, jointed below the middle; bracts 4 ite 
much longer, scarious. Flowers 1-1} in. diam.; segments linear-oblong, w 
with a green keel. Stamens } in. longer than the perianth ; style as long. 
14. EREMURUS, Picberst. 
Stately herbs, with the characters of Asphodelus, from which Ae 
genus differs only in the usually more numerous ovules.—Species 8 
20, oriental and Northern Asian. 
1. E. bimalaicus, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 289; glabro) 
bracts subulate-lanceolate equalling the pedicels, lowers white, filamen 
as long as the perianth, capsule rugose, seeds not winged. 
TEMPERATE WESTERN HIMALAYA, in the drier regions, from the Sutlej west- 
wards, alt. 7-10,000 ft.—DISTRIB. Eastern Turkestan. 
