74 ASPHODELI. [CI. 3. 



3 alternate segments often largest, superior or infe- 

 rior. Stamens 6, inserted into its middle, or base, or 

 into glands proceeding therefrom and lying on the 

 Germen, which is simple, with 1 Style, and a three- 

 cleft Stigma. Fruit of 3 cells, either pulpy and not 

 bursting, or capsular, of 3 valves, with 1 or several 

 Seeds in each cell. Leaves sheathing, usually all 

 radical. Flowers spiked, panicled, or corymbose, 

 each accompanied by a Sheath or Bractea." 



Sect. 1. Germen superior. Bimnannia and 77/- 

 landsia, (the former thought more allied to Junci by 

 Mr. Brown), also Puya of Molina. 



Sect. 2. Germen inferior. Xerophyta, Bromelia, 

 and Agave, fig. 147. Jussieu himself seems dissa- 

 tisfied with this Order, whose germination is not 

 thoroughly known. 



Ord. 16. Asphodeli. "Calyx (Corolla Linn.) 

 inferior, coloured, most frequently in 6 deep equal 

 divisions ; sometimes tubular and undivided below. 

 Stamens 6, inserted into its middle or base. Germen 

 simple. Style 1. Stigma simple or 3-cleft. Capsule 

 of 3 cells and 3 valves, with many Seeds. Root in 

 most instances bulbous, bearing a Scapus (17); if 

 fibrous, it often produces an herbaceous Stem. Leaves 

 sheathing, alternate, often all radical. Spike, or 

 Cluster, simple or branched, with a Sheath, or mem- 

 branous Bractea, under each branch and flower. 

 Flowers terminal, rarely axillary ; in Allium umbel- 

 late," as well as in the new genus Soiverbcea, fig. 1 49, 

 Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc v. 4. 218. 



