150 SMILACINEAE brown. (Smilacina.) 



gis, oblusis, uninerviis, patentibus. Sfamina 6, imo perigonio 

 inserta eoque duplo triplove longiora. Filamenta crassiuscula, 

 glabra. Antberae biloculares, cordatae vel cordato-ovatae, anice 

 em.trginatac, flavae, filamento duplo longiorcs. Ovarium libe- 

 rum, sessile, globosum vel cllipticiim, glabrum, triloculare ; ovula 

 2 in quolibet loculo, ejus angulo interno peltatim affixa, colla- 

 teralia, dimidiato-subrotundo-obovala, apice basique acutiuscula 

 et libera. Colmnna stvlina brcvissima, crassa. Stigma obtusum, 

 integrum, papillosum. Bacca rubra, nunc globosa ct monosper- 

 ma, nunc (plerumque) subdidymo-globosa et disperma. Semina 

 subglobosa, iu pulpa nidulan(ia, laeviuscula, opaca, stramineo- 

 pallida, binc chalaza ampla orbiculari fusca, indc, ad extremita- 

 tem subopposilam, tuberculo (micropyla) notata. Tcs(a tcnuis- 

 sima, albumini cornco-carnoso arctissime adnata. Embryo par- 

 vus, subclavulato-cylindraceus, rectus, inclusus, subaxilis, mi- 

 cropylae proximus, all>uininc triplo brevior; extremitate radicu- 

 lari rotundata, peripbaeriam spec(antc. — To(a pubescens (Gawl.); 

 magis minusve pubcscit (Hook.). Scbultcs 1. c. distinguit va- 

 rietatem (i pumilam, hispido-pubescentem. 



2. S. CILIATA Desf. in Ann. Mus. 9. p. 53. /. 9. Pursh. 

 Am. 1. 233. Nutl. Gen. i.226. Schult. Sysl. 7. 304. Caule alterne 

 folioso, arcuato; foliis scssilibus, ovatis, ciliatis ; panicula ter- 

 minali, conferta. Pursh. Convallaria ciliata Poir. Encycl. suppl. 

 A. 30. — A Virginia ad Canadam. 2|. — Rhizoma album, car- 

 nosum, articulatum, repens. Caulis 8-9-pollicaris^ superne fo- 

 liosus. Folia disticha, ovata, striato-nervosa, nervis pilosiuscu- 

 lis, ciliata, subbipollicaria. Panicula tcrminalis, solitaria, sim- 

 plex. Flores in ramis racemosi, minimi, albi. Peiigonii seg- 

 menta ovalia, acuta, palentia. Slamina exserta. Antberae bre- 

 ves, crassae, tetragonae. Ovarium liberum, pyriforme. Coliimna 

 styliua brcvissima. (Ex Dcsf.) Forma S. racemosac ? — Quid? 

 S. flexicaulis IVenderoth in Schrifl. d. Gesellsch. z. Befiird. d. 

 gesamml. JYatunvissenschafl. zu Marburg 2. Heft 6. p. 41. fide 

 auct. a S. ciliata Desf. forte distincta : caule angulato, flexuoso, 

 foliis petiolatis, oblongis, siibtus piibesccntibus. 



Species aiienae, a me baud visae. 



3. S. ForSKALIANA Schult. Sysf. 7. 304. Scapo squamato, 

 racemoso; bracteis lanceolatis ; pediccllis confertis, patentibus. 

 Forsk. Convallaria racemosa Forsfc. Descr. Aeg. 73. — Arabia. 

 2J. — Scapus fasciculatim racemosus, bractca sub quovis flosculo. 

 Corolla 6-fida, infera. Stamina corollae inserta. Styhis longus. 

 Stigma capitatum. Bacca 1-5-cocca; coccis monospermis, magni- 

 tiidinc pisi. (Ex Forsk.) Laudatur a Poiretio (Encycl. 1. 370.) 

 ad S. racemosam americanam. 



4. S. FLEXUOSA Ifook. Icon. i. 529. Glaberrima ; caule 

 elato, strictiusculo ; foliis bifariam insertis, subsecundis, rotun- 



