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EMMERATIO PLANTARUM OMMUM 

 HUCUSQUE COGMTARUM. 



ASPAPtAGINEAE*) kunth in Act. Acad. Bcrol. 1842. 



p. 25. 



Asphodeleae trib. 3. Asparageae Endl. 



JD lorcs hermaphroditi, rarius dioeci. Perigonium 6-phylIuin, 

 corollaceum, regulare, deciduum vel persistens ; foliola di- 

 stincta vel inferne magis minusve connata, aequalia, rarius 

 interiora alius dimcnsionis et formae. Praefloratio imhricata. 

 Stamiua scx, foliolis perigonii inferne magis minusve adnata. 

 Filamcnta libera. Antherae biloculares, dorso , rarissime 

 (in Eustrcpheis) basi affixae, introrsae. Ovarium liberum, 

 triloculare; ovula in loculis solitaria, gemina vel plura 

 angulo interno affixa, biscriata, anatropa, hemianatropa 

 vel ainpbitropa (Endl.). Styli 3, in columnam connati. Stig- 

 mata 3, magis minusve connata. Bacca mono — polysperma; 

 in Eustrcpho capsula baccata, loculicido-trivalvis; in Dasylirio 

 fructus nucamentaceus, abortu monospermus, indehiscens. 

 Semina plerumque subglobosa vel pressione mutua angulata. 

 Testa crustacea, coriacea vel mcmbranacea, atra, plerumque 

 albumini carnoso-cartilagineo vel corneo arcte adnata. Em- 

 bryo in basi albuminis axilis et radicula biluin spectante vel 

 transversus et hilo lateralis. Herbae perenncs, interdum 

 acattles, rhixomatosae , sttffrutices, frutices vel arborcs 

 pahnaeformes. Folia sparsa, simplicinervia, sessilia vel 

 petiolata, amplexicaulia, intcrdum st/uamaeformia. Flores 



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°) Mense Mart. 1848 typis describi coeptae. 

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