766 CLXXVIII | LILIACEZE. [Asparaged. 
€t án. Trans. Linn, Soc. Bot. 1.253. Hed. Lil. t. 288, 407, 4834, 446, 461, 460. Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. 
1. 97, 266. Jacq. f. Ecl. t. 40. Wendl. Hort. Herrenh. t, 22. Hajme, Arzneigew. viii, 1. 29. Reichb, 
Je, Fl, Gerin. t. 518 ad 520. Nees, Gen. FI, Germ. Monocot. ii. n. 97. Waldst. et Kit, Pl. Rar. Hung. 
t. 201. Cav. 1c. t. 136. — Webb, Phytogr. Canar. t. 226 ad. 229.  Tornabene im Atti Acad. Gioen. 
xii. cum tabb. (opus a. nobis non visum). | Sibth. Fl. Grac. t. 337 ad 339. — Regel, Fl. Turkest. t. 22. 
Wight, Ic. i. 2055, 2056. — Schweinf. Pl. Nilot, t. 13. (Asparagopsis). Grant in Trans, Linn. Soc. 
xxix./. 106. Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 21, 214, 261. 
Genus a Kunthio restrictum fuit ad species floribus ex Kunthio dioicis ex Bakero polygamis, et 
species floribus omnibus hermaphroditis pro genere proprio separavit: AsPAnacoPsis, Kunth in 
Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1842, 35; Enum. Pl, v. 76 ; character tamen sepe valde ambiguus, 
et genera duo bene in sectionem unicam jungeres iconibus supra citatis illustrandam.  Cladodia in 
Asparago, Kunth, sepissime faseiculata acieularia teretia v. angulata, nune rigide pungentia, nune 
tenuiora fere filiformia, in A4sparagopside, Kunth, interdum iis Asparagi similia, swpe tamen plana 
haud raro ad squamellas solitaria, anguste linearia recta v. falcata, v. lineari-lanceolata rarius 
latiuseula. 
Mynsienyurou, Willd. in. Gesellsch. Naturf. Fr. Berl. Mag. ii. 25. Kunth, Enwm. Pl. v. 105 
(Hzcarnis, Salisb. Gen. Pl. Fragm. 66), species continet 4 austro-Afrieanas, a plerisque botanieis 
bene ad sectionem Asparagi relatas, cladodiis foliiformibus ad squamellas solitariis ovatis v. ovato- 
lanceolatis vix coriaceie. Hed. Lil. /. 442 (Medeola). Bot. Mag. t. 5584. — Saund. Ref. Bot. t. A7. 
Tarsus HI. LuzuRIAGEX, 
8. Herrerio, dius et dg. Prod. 48, j^ 35; 3 Syst. Veg. 83; Fl. Per. et Chil. iii. 69, t. 303. 
—Pi gmenta distincta, subsqualia, patentia. SR 6, ima 
basi segmentorum aflixa i keen parum m filamentis filiformibus ; antherz ovoideo- 
oblongz, medio dorso affixe, loculis introrsum dehiscentibus. Ovarium sessile, 3-que- 
trum, 3-loculare ; stylus iss columnaris, stigmatibus 3 ad apicem subelavatum adnatis; 
ovula in loculis pauca (3-6), lateraliter affixa, lati la. Capsula. coriacea, fere suberosa, 
3-quetra, angulis valde prominentibus a latere 3-loba, demum septicide i in carpella in- 
trorsum v. interd 2-valvatim dehi iia secedens. Semina in loculis SPeDNUS abortu 
solitaria y. gemina, a latere complanata, nigra, testa laxa 
circumcirca fere in alam dilatata ; embryo cylindraceus, albumine carnoso 2-3-plo brevior. 
— Caulis e rhizomate ssepe tubergso elatus, ramosus, tortuoso-volubilis v. rarius flexuoso- 
erectus rigidulus. Folia cladodiis Danais et Semelis simillima, ad basin caulis v. ad nodos 
fasciculata, Suc v. lanceolata, rigidula, tenuiter multinervia, interdum. angustissima 
parvi ad basin fasciculorum v. etiam foliis intermixtre scepis- 
sime adsunt een v. plurimze. Racemi ad basin fasciculorum solitarii v. 2 suboppositi, 
v. ad apices ramorum laxe paniculati. Flores parvi, secus rhachin sparsi v. fasciculati, 
breviter pedi. i, pedicellis sub apice articulatis. Bracte: ad basin pedicellorum parve, 
squamiformes. 
Species 3 y. 4, Amerieze australis extratropiez ineole. Kunth, Enum. Pl. v. 991. Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xviii, 231, — Griseb, in Mart. Fl, Bras. iii. i. 23, 1. 4, 5. Bot. Reg. t. 1042, 
Crana, Kunth in Abhandl. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1848, 44; Enum. Pl. v, 290; Griscb., Symb. 
FI. Argent. 321, ex speciminibus Balansanis e Paraguay, n. 629, omnino cum do vripirue Kunthii 
et, Grisebachii conyenientibus, a ezeteris Herreriis non differt nisi caule elato quidem flexuosoque sed 
non volubili parumque ramoso, fasciculos foliorum paucos ferente. Flores et fructus omnino 
Herrerie. 
9, mehnia, Didrichs. in Vidensk. Meddel. Kjóbenh. 1864, 189. (Dietyopsis, Harv. in 
Bot. Maj. f. 5638.  Hylonome, Baker im Journ. Limn. Soc. xiv. D61, vic W'ebb.)—Peri- 
anthium decid blong: lat tubo lato cylind: apice contracto; lobi breves 
subsquales, patentes. Stamina 6, medio tubo affixa, perianthio breviora, filamentis 
crassiuscule filiformibus ; antherz breviter oblongze, BHO dorso affix:ze, loculis introrsum 
dehiscentibus. OS basi in stipitem crassum contractum, 3-loculare ; stylus crassius- 
cule filiformis, stigmatibus 3 brevibus: obiusis crassis patentibus ; ovula in loculis pauca 
(2-41). Bacca sub io carnoso. Semina pauca v. solitaria, 
subglobosa, testa nigra crassiuscula.  appressa ; - embryo subcentralis, albumine corneo 
