£24 HEXANDRIA, MONOGYNIA, 
sent, having lanceolate-oblong petals, all without dentures? 
but I have not now specimens whereby to define it. 
Of this genus there is but a single species out of Ame- 
rica indigenous to Siberia and the south of Europe. 
$27, UVULARIA. L. 
- Corolla inferior, 6-petalled, erect; claws of 
the petals each furnished with a nectariferous 
cavity. Filaments very short, growing to the 
anthers. Stigmata reflected. Capsule 3-angled, 
 $-celled, S-valved; valves septiferous in the 
middle. Seeds many, subglobose, arillate at 
- Roots ramose and carneous; leaves sessile or amplexi- 
wr caule; peduncles 1-flowered, axillary. 
Species. 1..U, perfoliate. 2. flava. 3. grandiflora 
4. sessilifolia. 5. puberula. . 
_A North American genus with the exception of 2 spe- 
cies in Japan. : 
$28. STREPTOPUS. Michaux. 
Corolla inferior, 6-petalled, subcampanulate. 
Stigma very short. Berry subglobose, smooth, 
S-celled. Seeds few, hilum naked. 
Roots perennial, fibrous; leaves sessile or amplexicaule; 
Rowers ailiery and terminal, pedicells 1 or 2-flowered. 
Species. 1.8. distortus. 2. roseus. Ops. Stem dicho- 
tomous; flowers axillary and terminal, solitary or by pairs, 
pon the same pedicell and horizontally divaricate. 4 
fanuginosus. Flowers by pairs terminal, upon a very short 
pedicel, j.4:4 a 
An American genus, with the exception of S. distortus, 
which is also indigenous to the mountains of Europe. 
329. CONVALLARIA. L. (Lily of the Valley.) 
Corolla inferior, 6 cleft, campanulate. Sta- 
- mina shorter than the corolla, inserted upon its 
base. Berry globose, 3-celled; cells 1 to 2- 
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