486 MELANTHACER. (COLCHICUM FAMILY.) 
8, distinct or more or less united. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds 
anatropous. Embryo minute, in copious albumen. 
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. Synopsis. 
Sunorper I. UVULARIEZE. (Tue BrLLwomT Fawrrv.) Peri- 
anth corolla-like, bell-shaped, the divisions distinct and deciduous. Styles 
partly or wholly united. Fruit a few-seeded capsule or berry. — Stems 
forking and leafy above, sheathed below. Leaves ovate or lanceolate, 
sessile or clasping. Flowers perfect, solitary, nodding. 
1. UVULARIA. Fruit a lobed loculicidal capsule. Flowers on short lateral branches. 
9. PROSARTES. Fruit a3-6-seeded berry. Flowers terminal, on straight peduncles. 
8. STREPTOPUS. Fruit a many-seeded berry. Flowers axillary, on bent peduncles. 
Susorper IL  MELANTHIEZE. (Tue Corcmcum FAMILY.) 
Perianth spreading; the divisions mostly distinct, often clawed, withering- 
persistent. Styles separate. Fruit a 3-celled capsule. — Stems leafy at 
the base, simple or branched. Flowers in racemes or panicles, sometimes 
polygamous or dicecious. 
* Anther-cells confluent. 
+ Leaves of the perianth biglandular near the base. 
4, MELANTHIUM. Flowers polygamous. Filaments partly adhering to the claws of the 
perianth. 
5. ZIGADENUS. Flowers perfect. Filaments free from the perianth. 
+ + Leaves of the perianth glandless. 
6. STENANTHIUM. Leaves of the perianth lanceolate, acute, coherent with the base of the 
ovary, longer than the stamens. 
7. VERATRUM. Leaves of the perianth oblong or obovate, free from the ovary, longer "—- 
the stamens and short styles. Flowers polygamous. wa 
8. AMIANTHIUM. Leaves of the perianth obovate, free, shorter than the stamens 
slender styles. Flowers perfect, racemed. 
9. SCH(ENOCAULON. Leaves of the perianth oblong, shorter than the stamens, -— 
longer than the very shortstyles. Flowers perfect, spiked. 
* * Anther-cells distinct. 
+ Capsule loculicidal. 
10. XEROPHYLLUM. Flowers perfect. Capsule 6-seeded. Radical leaves grass-like- 
TL CHAMJELIRIUM. Flowers dicecious. Capsule many-seeded, Radical leaves obovate. 
"= 4 Capsule septicidal. Leaves equitant. Anthers introrse- 
12. PLEEA. Stamens 9-12. Anthers versatile, Bracts spathe-like. 
13. TOFIELDIA. Stamens 6. Antherserect. Bracts short. 
A. cae k BELLWORT. 
Perianth bell-shaped, corolla-like, the divisions distinct, grooved at the -— 
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