148 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.  Asphodelus, 
at which period the plant is perfectly destitute of leaves, 
nothing but the straight very slender scape, and raceme’ 
is to be seen. 
Root a round, tunicated, erential; greenish-white 
bulb, of about an inch and a half in diameter. In tasteit is: 
exceedingly nauseous, and bitter, and is in India some- 
times used as a substitute for the oflicinal squill. Scilla 
maritima. Leaves linear, rather acute, smooth, deeply 
channeled ; generally six or eight inches long, and less 
than half an inch broad, even when spread flat, Scape 
straight, erect, naked, smooth, and slender ; whole height, 
raceme included, from twelve to eighteen inches; and not 
thicker than a crow quill. Flowers from four to eight, re- 
mote, long-pedicelled, drooping, colour a mixture of dull 
green, and still duller white, with a slight purple tinge. 
Bractes small, caducous. Petal oblong, and nearly of 
the same size, the inner tliree with bearded apices. Fi- 
laments six, equal, inserted on the base of the petals, 
clavate. Germ ovate-oblong. Style a three-sided, in- 
verted cone, with a triangular opening at top, for the stig- 
ma, 
ASPHODELUS. Schreb. gen. n. 569, 
Corol six-parted. Nectary six-valves covering ie ge 
nitals. 
4 
1.A. clavatus. R. a 
Annual. Stem naked, ramous, Leaves erect, stexieiah ae 
cylindric, fistulous. Filaments clavate above their nec- 
tarial ciliate base, 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal, where it ap- 
pears to blossom, and ripen its seed during the cold sea- 
son, 
It seems, from the descriptions and aiueted in my pos- 
session of A, Jistulosus to be very nearly allied to it, Io 
