130 SMILACINEAE brown. (Convallaria.) 



carnoso arctissiine adnata. Embryo parvus, rectus, axilis, 

 in extremitate albuminis cbulazac opposita inclusus. *) Her- 

 bae caulescentes, rarissime acaules ; caule simpHci, foliato ; 

 rhizomate repente. Folia striato-nervosa, nervis subtiliter 

 reticulatoanastomosantibus, sparsa, opposita vel verticil- 

 lata. Fedunculi nunc axillarcs, 1-2- vel racemoso-pauci- 

 fiori, nunc terminales, racemoso- vel paniculalo-multifiori, 

 in acaulibus pcdunculi radicales scapiformes, apice umbel- 

 lato-, cymoso- vel racemoso-plurifiori. Flores sub perigo- 

 nio articulati, in Majanthemo tetrameri. 



CONVALLARIA neck. FAem. 3. 189., desf., nees ab 



ESENB. JUN., ENDL. 



Pcrigonium corollaccum, abbreviato-campanulatum, limbo 

 sexfiriiiin et recurvatum, deciduutn. Stamina b", fundo peri- 

 gonii inserta, inclusa. Filamenta subulata. Antberae bilo- 

 cularcs, ovato-lanceolatae, obtusae, basi bilobae, riorso me- 

 riio affixae, introrsae. Ovarium liberum, sessile, ovatum, in 

 columnam stylinam crassam trigonam attenuatum. Stigma 

 columnain stylinam truncatam terminans, triangulare, supra 

 papillosum ; ovula in loculis 4-6, biseriata, anatropa.**) Bacca 

 globosa, tri-, saepius 1-2-locuIaris. Setnina in loculis ple- 

 rumque gemina, subglobosa, obsolete angulata. Testa te- 

 nuissiina , albumini cartilagineo -carnoso arctissime arinata. 

 Einbryo parvus, clavulato-teretiusculus, rectus, axilis, in ex- 

 trcmitate albuminis cbalazae opposita inclusus. Herba pe- 

 rennis, acaulis. /ihizoma teuue , obliquum, ad genicula 

 fibris longis ramosis obsitum, stoloniferum. Folia radica- 

 lia duo, longc pctiolala, elliptico-oblonga, striato-nervosa, 

 nervis subtiliter reticulatoanastomosantibus, membranacea; 

 petiolis sibi mutuo vaginato-involventibus, una cum pedun- 

 culo laterali vaginis aphyllis tubulosis involutis. Pedun- 

 culus radicalis , scapiformis , semiteres , apice racemoso- 

 plurifiorus ; fioribus pedicellatis, secuudis, nutantibus, to- 

 tis atbis , suaveolentibus ; pedicellis basi unibractcolatis. 

 Baccac rubrae. — Convallaria riicbotoma r Fhib. in Pers. 

 Syu. I. 373. Cand. Gatl. 5. 309. est Streptopus amplexifo- 



") Embryo antitropus, in extremitate albuminis umbilico opposita 

 inclusus; extremitate radiculuri centrifuga. Endl. 



"") Ovula in loculis 2, superposita, horizontalia, ortotropa. Endl. 



