_ 150 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Asparagus.. 
Root perennial, consisting of many, fleshy, round 
fibres ending in small, oblong tubers. Zeaves radical, ma- 
ny, ensiform, margins. waved, smooth, from one to two 
feet long ; and from twoto four inches broad., Scapes 
round, smooth, naked, from one to three feet long. Pani= 
cles oblong, erect. Flowers numerous, sub-erect, pure 
white, about the size and appearance of the snow-drop. 
Filaments equal, simple, short, ascending. Anthers lineat,, 
erect. Style ascending, projecting rather beyond the an- 
thers. Stigmalobed. Capsule three-sided. 
I have had many of the plants in my garden for seves 
ral years ; they are very beautiful when in blossom, and 
have a long succession of flowers. 
ASPARAGUS. Schreb. gen. n. 573. 
Calyx none. Corol beneath, six-petalled. Germ supe-— 
rior, three-celled ; cells few-seeded ; attachment interior: 
Berry three-celled, one or two-seeded. Embryo ser- 
pentine, transverse, on the exterior side of an ample pe-— 
risperm, opposite to the umbilicus. 
41. A. officinalis. Willd. 2. 150. a 
Stems herbaceous, columnar, erect. Leaves bristly- 
Stipules in pairs. 
Pers. and Hind, Nak-doun, 
Beng. Hilyoon. 
Arab, Hulyoon. 
Found as in Europe, in a cultivated state only. 
2. A. acerosus, R.- 2 
Herbaceous, erect. Thorns solitary, recurved. Leaves 
three-fold, three-sided, acute, polished, permanent. Ra- 
cemes lateral. 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal. _ Flowering ia 
