SMILACINEAE brown. , kuinth in Act. Acad. Rerol. 



1842. p. 36. 



Jj lores hermnphroditi vel dioeci. Perigonium 6-, rnrissime 

 4-, 8- vel 10-phyllum, snepissime corollaceum, regulare, per- 

 sistens vel deciduum ; foliola distincta vel magis minusve 

 connata, aequalia vel interiora nunc minora nunc mnjora, 

 nunc (in Demidowia) nulla. Praetloratio imhricata. Stamina 

 tot quot foliola, rarissime 3 interiora nulla, perigyna, inter- 

 dum hypogyna. Filamenta libera, in perpnucis in tubum ur- 

 ceolatum connata. Antherae biloculares (in Smilnce unilo- 

 culures), introrsum, rnrissimc extrorsum dehiscentes. Ova- 

 rium liberum vel basi perigonii semiadnntum, tri-, interdum 

 imi-, bi-j qundri- vel quinqueloculare; ovula in loculis ge- 

 mina, collateralia vel plura, biseriata, anatropa vel hemi- 

 anatropa, rarissime in Smilnceis solitnrin, pendula et ortho- 

 tropn.°) Columna stylina terminalis: stigmute trifido, trilobo 

 vel integro; rarissime stigmuta tria, sessilia. Bacca 1-3-, 

 rarissime 2-, 4- vel 5-locularis; Ioculis l-pleospermis. Se- 

 mina in pulpa nidulantia, plerumque globosa, ad unain ex- 

 tremitatem chalaza mnjuscula, ad alteram suboppositam mi- 

 cropyle umboniformi instructa. Testa tenuiter membranacea, 

 albumini carnoso vel cartilagineo-corneo magis minusve arcte 

 adnata, stramineo-pallida, fuscescens vel fusca (nunquam 

 atra). Embryo sub micropyle inclusus, rectus, plerumque 



ft ) Endlicher ovula amphitropa vel orthotropa, interdum anatropa 

 descripsit. 



