

FAMIGLIA NOrVA<^ i**^v, 



Sarmentacearum genera Linn ord. IX. 



Asparagi Jiiss. geii. p. 40. excl. nonn. generib. 



AsPHODELE^. ex parte et Smilace.e R. Brown prodr. p. 274 et 292. 



AsPARAGE.E Dee. fi. frane. 3. p. 112. 



AsPHODELE.'E tribus IIl^ AsPARAGE^ et Smilace^ Endl. gen. pi. p. 150 



et 152. 

 LlLlAGE.-E tribus 11^ AsPARAGE.E Brongiì. ennm. des genres. p. 64. 

 AsPARAGiNE^E, Smilace.e, Lapagerie.« et UVULAR1E.E ex parte Kunth 



ennm. pi. 5. p. 1. p. 114 et 283, et 4. p. 199. 

 LiLiACE/E tribus IX Asparage.e, Melanthace.e ex parte, Smilace,e, 



Philesiace.e et TiulliacE/E Lindi, veg. kingd. p. 199, 205, 215, 



217 et $18. 



Herbse perenncs , interdum acaules , vel suffrutieosae aut fruticosa^, 

 raro arborescentes , quandoque scandentes aut volubiles, rarissime 

 stolonifera? (in Cordyline), aculeatse, spinosae vel inermes, rhizo- 

 mate elongato vel abbreviato et fibris radicalibus quandoque tuberoso- 

 fasciculatis instructge. * 



Caulis vel truncus simplex aut ramosus, erectus vel scandens aut 

 volubilis, ramis vel ramulis abbreviato-spinosis (in Smilace), aut 

 foliaceo-dilatatis (cladodia), nunc inermibus, nunc apice mucronato- 

 pungentibus (in Rusco), foliatus aut aphyllus. 



Folia sparsa, subdisticha, aut in apice caulis et ramorum conferta, 

 interdum opposita aut verticillata, oblonga, elliptica, lanceolata, linearla, 

 raro bastata vel cordata, striato-nervosa, simplicinervia aut nervis paucis 

 longitudinalibus curvis, sa^pe subtiliter réticulato-anastomosantibus, 

 instructa, sessilia, semiample-xicaulia aut amplexicauHa , vel petiolata, 

 petiolis raro'supra basim bicirrhosis (in Smilaceis), interdum squami- 

 ibrmia (in Asparago, Myrsiphyllo et in Rusceis), squamis inermibus 

 vel basi calcarato-spinosis. 



Prsefloratio imbricata. Flores hermaphroditi vel dioici autpolygami, 

 plerumque spicati, racemosi aut paniculati , vel axillares aut termina- 

 les, solitari! fasciculative (in Asparageis), aut in cladodiis supra aut 

 subtus vel ad marginem sniitarii aut fasciculato-congesti (in Rusceis), 



