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Tribe XVI. ANGUILLARIEA. 
Anguillariee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 760. 
Hight genera, embracing about thirty species, constitute this tribe, which is restricted 
to the Old World, and almost exclusively to South Africa and Australia, there being a 
few outliers in the Mediterranean region, Tropical Africa, Madagascar, and India. 
Tribe XVII. NARTHECIEA. 
Nartheciee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 760. 
Twelve genera, numbering thirty-four species, scattered over nearly the whole area 
of the Order, including the country immediately to the north of Mexico and the Andes 
of South America. 
Tribe XVIII. UVULARIEA. 
Uvulariee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 761. 
Nine genera with thirty-four species, widely scattered. The exclusively North- 
American genus Uvularia may yet be found within our limits. 
Tribe XIX. MEDEOLEA. 
Medeolee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 762. 
Six genera, numbering about twenty-five species, confined to temperate regions of the 
northern hemisphere, and most numerous in North America, though none has been 
found to the south of our northern boundary. 
Tribe XX. VERATREA. 
Veratree, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 762. 
Five genera, numbering about thirty-four species, constitute this tribe. Two of the 
genera and twenty-four or twenty-five of the species are peculiar to North America and 
the rest to temperate Asia and Europe. 
| 15. STENANTHIUM. 
Stenanthium, A. Gray in Ann. Lyc. N. York, iv. p. 119; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 835. 
Species five, whereof one inhabits the island of Sachalin and the rest North America. 
1. Stenanthium frigidum, Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 190; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xvii. p. 484. | . 
Veratrum frigidum, Ch. et Schl. in Linnea, vi. p. 46; Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 53. 
Souta Mexico, peak of Orizaba 9000 to 12,500 feet (Linden, 57 ; Galeotti, 5583; 
Liebmann), Anganguio 9000 feet (Hartweg), near Chalco (Schaffner), San Felipe, Oaxaca 
(Andrieuxr, 67). Hb. Kew. 
