Merendera.] CLVI. LiLIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 357 
Or basifized or dorsifixed.—Species about 10, 8. Europe, N. Africa and 
ntal, 
M. persica, Boiss. & Kotsch. Diagn. xiii. 37; FI. Orient. v. 169; 
eaves appearing with the flowers linear acute, scape 1-4-fld., perianth pale 
» Segments lanceolate subacute, blade } shorter than the slender claw, 
anthers basifixed. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 440. M. Aitchisoni, 
Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6012; Boiss. L. c. 169. 
The PANJAB; on the Salt Range, and near the Jhelum, Vicary, Aitchison.— 
DisrRis, Affghanistan, N. Persia. 2. 
Bulb gibbously ovoid, long-necked, coats bright red-brown. Leaves 1-2 in. in 
flowering state, 6-8 in the fruiting, dark green. Flowers 1j-2 in. diam. ; seg- 
puts with a reddish dorsal keel. Filaments subulate, equalling the anthers.— 
Isle keeps Aitchisoni distinct from persica, on account of the paler corms, and 
orter green anthers. Baker unites them. 
28. IPHIGENIA, Kunth. 
Corm coated. Stem erect, leafy. Leaves few, scattered, linear, upper 
bractiform, Flowers small, erect, solitary or corymbose. Perianth 6- 
Se stellate, deciduous ; segments equal, narrow, clawed, spreading. 
tamens 6, hypogynous, filaments short, flat; anthers oblong, introrsely 
tached, versatile. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; styles minute, united at 
Cy base, linear, recurved, introrsely stigmatose; cells many-ovuled. 
ene loculicidal. Seeds subglobose; testa thin, brown, appressed.— 
Pecies 4, Indian, African and Australasian. 
Lt, indica, Kunth Enum. iv. 213; ianth lish, segments 
i . iv. ; perianth purplish, seg 
inear-subulate, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 450; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
Prod ‘sen TaCemosa, and I. caricina, Kunth Le, Anguillaria indica, Br. 
Wan 219; Wall. Pl. As. Rar. iii. 37, t. 259; Cat. 5085. A. Heyneana, 
i l. Cat. 9086. Melanthium indicum, Linn, Mant. 226. M. racemosum 
0, ucinum, Roth Nov. Sp. 199. Hypoxidopsis pumila, Steud. Pl. Ind. 
Gase No. 1313. 
ughout INprA, from the N. W. frontier to BURMA; ascending the KHasrA 
Te to 4-5000 ft., and SC dal to 7000 ft. CEYLON ; Trincomalee, Glenie. 
Core 5. Australia, Philippines. . 
leaves f, globose, 3 in, diam., neck 1-2 in., sheaths brown. Stem 3-10 in., flexuous. 
Plish oe, 6-8 by 3-4 in. upper smaller. Flowers few or many, reddish or pur- 
j bracts linear, leafy; pedicels 1-2 in. Perianth }-} in. long; segments 
tige... 4 Preading and reflexed. Capsule 4 in., obovoid or oblong, most variable in 
adip Ee plant. Prome specimens are nearly 1 ft. high, very robust an 
ish leayed. 
22 . te AE, ianth white 
N pallida, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 451; perianth white, 
P ai oblanceolate acute many-nerved. ? A. indica, Grah. Cat. Bomb. 
pte Cow Belgaum 
P CAN; Ritchie, &c., on the Ghats at Mahableshwar, and Be gaum. , 
with e bly Var. of indica, with smaller narrower leaves and bracts, white flowers 
ch broader Segments and shorter pedicels. 
29. TOFIELDIA, Huds. 
Rootstock i i i Scape slender ; 
lowers gm y OTeeping. Leaves radical, equitant, ensiform. Scape slender ; 
"8 small green or white, spicate or racemed ; bracts minute. Perianth 
