CONVALLARIACEAE 205 
panicle, or axillary. Calyx of 2 or 3 sepals. Corolla of 2 or 3 petals, 
oe ne the im VNDE partially united. Androecium of 4 o 
6 stam Gynoecium of 2 or 3 united earpels. Fruit a berry or rarely 
a erre bom eapsule — About 25 genera and 220 species, widely dis- 
tributed. 
Sepals, and petals, distinct or essentially so. 
Fruit baccate. 
Flowers axillary: leaves scale-like: branchlets l 
proliferous. Tribe I. ASPARAGEAE. 
pos termin al: leaves, or most of them, not 
cale-like : plants not proliferously branched. Tribe II. STREPTOPEAE. 
Fr a 'apsule. Tribe III. UVULARIEAE. 
Sepals, and petals, partly united into a tube. 
Flowers axillary: : anthers sagittate. Tribe IV. POLYXGONATEAE. 
Flowers in a inal raceme or panicle. 
Perianth campanulate: fruit a berry. Tribe V. CONVALLARIEAE. 
Meier tubular, the lobes recurved: fruit a l 
capsule. Tribe VI. SANSEVIERIEAE. 
ASPARAGEAE 
serra with a short scaly eet ond very much-branched 
: flowers, and berries, small 1. ASPARAGUS. 
II. STREPTOPEAE 
Flowers in umbels or umbel-like cymes: leaves apparently 
basal. 
Flowers in a terminal umbel : ovules 2 in each ovary-cavity. 2. XENIATRUM. 
Flowers in a simple or compound umbel-like cyme: ovules 
or more in each ovary-cavity. 8. CLINTONIA. 
Flowers in racemes or panicles, or solitary: leaves cauline. 
Flowers in a terminal raceme or panicle. 
po E petals 3 each: SCORE 6: gynoecium 3-car- 
4. VAGNERA. 
S. end petals 2 each: stamens 4: gynogeium 2-car- 
pe ellary. 5. UNIFOLIUM. 
Flowers in extra-axillary clusters or solit 
Peduncles ae attered along the Oe filaments di- 
lated: 
rs acute. 
Anthers 2o stigmas 3. 6. STREPTOPUS. 
Anthers Seite: pede p united. 7. TORTIPES. 
Peduncles at the ends of the branches: filaments slen- 
der: anthers od se. 8. DISPORUM. 
III. UVULARIEAE 
Sepals and petals with 2 ridges on either side of a deep nec- 
ary: eapsule obovoid or turbinate, 3-lobed. 9. UVULARIA. 
bg: and petals without ridges or nectary: capsule elliptic 
oval, 3-winged. ` 10. OAKESIELLA. 
IV. POLYGONATEA 
Epi herbs with thick scarred rootstocks: doses soli- 
r few in clusters, nodding. 11. POLYGONATUM. 
, nu asi 
Seapose herbs with slender rootstocks: flowers in a terminal 
ceme on a scape arising between the erect leaves, nodding. 12. CONVALLARIA. 
VI. SANSEVIERIEAE 
Coarse plants with elongate rootstocks : es erect or nearly 
80, fleshy-fibrous : flowers erect or ascending. 13. CORDYLINE. 
1. ASPARAGUS [Tourn.] L. Caulescent herbs, the branches plume- -like 
on account- of the minute branchlets clustered in the axils of the scales. Leaves 
