362 DIOSCORIACEA. 
ITI. Stamina sex, omnia perfecta ; anther subsessiles. 
D. spiculifiora et D. macrostachya. 
IV. Stamina sex quorum tria sterilia. 
D. polygonoides, D. densiflora et D. pallens. 
V. Stamina tria. 
D. grandifolia, D. convolvulacea, D. galeottiana, D. capitlaris et D. multinervis. 
VI. Stamina ignota. 
D. propinqua et D. composita. 
Series III. CORONARIE. 
[RoxpuRGHiacE#, an Order of three genera and eight species, inhabiting Asia and 
Australia, and one, Croomia pauciflora, Florida, Georgia, and Alabama; the only other 
known species of the genus being a native of Japan. | 
Order CXLVII. LILIACE. 
Liliaceae, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 748. 
As limited by Bentham and Hooker this Order comprises 187 genera (to which have 
to be added two Mexican genera founded by S. Watson since the completion of the 
‘Genera Plantarum’), dispersed under twenty tribes. Upwards of 2100 species are 
known, and they are generally dispersed, except in the colder regions, though most 
numerous in temperate and subtropical countries. 
Tribe I. SMILACEA. 
Smilacee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 751. 
Besides Smilax there are two genera of five species each, one of them being restricted 
to Australia and New Zealand, and the other to Eastern Asia. 
1. SMILAX. 
Smilax, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 1120; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 763; DC. Monogr. 
Phanerog. i. pp. 1-213. | 
Nearly 200 species are enumerated by De Candolle, and they are spread over nearly 
all temperate and tropical regions, both in America and the Old World. 
1. Smilax acutifolia, Schl. in Linnea, xviii. p. 449; DC. Monogr. Phanerog. 
i, p. 85. . 
SoutH Mexico, near Anganguio (Schiede), near El Banco (Lhrenberg). 
2. Smilax angustiflora, A. DC. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. p. 67. 
Costa Rica, Alto de la Cruz, near Azari (Hoffntann). 
3. Smilax aristolochizfolia, Mill. Dict. n.7; DC. Monogr. Phanerog. i. p. 208. 
Smilax milleri, Steud. Nomencl. Bot, 
