42 DEACAEXACEAE. 



shorter than the sepals: beak of the capsule exceeding the perianth. — Ham- 

 mocks and low pinelands. 



Family 2. LILIACEAE. Lily Family. 



Perennial mainly caulescent herbs. Leaves alternate to wliorled, 

 sometimes all basal : blades entire or essentially so. Flowers solitary or 

 variously clustered. Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals, together with 

 the sepals sometimes partially united into a tube. Androeeium of 6 

 stamens, the anthers usually distinct. Gynoecium of 3 united carpels. 

 Fruit a loculicidal capsule. 



1. OXYTEIA Eaf. Scapose rather wiry herbs, with bulb-like corms. 

 Leaf-blades elongate and very narrow. Eaceme or panicle with short bracts. 

 Sepals, and petals, white of yellow, distinct. 



1. O. albiflora (Eaf.) Pollard. Leaf -blades 2-6 mm. wide: scapes 4-6.5 dm. 

 tall: racemes branched: sepals and petals white, 5-6 mm. long: capsules 5-6 

 mm. wide. — Everglades and low pinelands. 



Family 3. CONVALLARIACEAE. Lily-of-the-valley Family. 



Perennial herbs with rootstocks. Leaves alternate, sometimes all basal. 

 Flowers in a tenninal cluster, raceme, or panicle, or axillary. Calj'x of 2 

 or 3 sepals. Corolla of 2 or 3 petals, tog-ether with the sepals sometimes 

 partially united. Androeeium of 4 or 6 stamens. Gynoecium of 2 or 3 

 united carj^els. Fruit a berry or rarely a tardily dehiscent capsule. 



1. SANSEVIERIA Thunb. Succulent herbs with stout rootstocks. 

 Leaves erect, flat or nearly terete. Flowers in narrow • panicles, erect or 

 ascending. Perianth white or greenish: lobes narrow, about as long as the 

 cylindric tube. Capsule membranous. Seeds baccate. 



1. S. guineensis Willd. Leaves 4-10 dm. tall, mottled: panicle many-flowered: 

 perianth-lobes linear or linear-spatulate, 14-18 mm. long, curled back. — 

 Pinelands and cultivated grounds. Nat. of Africa, and cultivated. — F. K. 

 {Ber., Ball., Cuba, Ant.) — African bowstrixg-hemp. 



Family 4. DRACAENACEAE. Yucca Family. 



Shrubby plants or trees, with woody generally copiously leafy caudices. 

 Leaves alternate: blades narrow, Aitq or rigid, sometimes filiferous. 

 Flowers in racemes or panicles terminating scape-like stems. Calyx of 3 

 generally white or pale sepals. Corolla of 3 petals nearly like the sepals. 

 Androeeium of 6 stamens. Gynoecium superior, of 3 united carpels. 

 Style stout, sometimes obsolete during anthesis. Fruit a primarily locu- 

 licidal capsule, sometimes indehiscent or baccate. 



1. YUCCA [Eupp.] L. Caudex commonly leafy throughout. Flowers 

 perfect, relatively large, in panicles or racemes. Sepals and petals several 

 nerved, deciduous. Capsule dehiscent or baccate. — Spaxish-bayoxet. 



Fruit a drooping pulpy inrleliiscent berry-like capsule. 1- Y. aloifoUa. 



Fruit an erect dry deliiscent capsule. 2. 1'. fllamcntosa. 



1. Y. aloifolla L. Caudex often 1-2.5 m. tall, commonly branched: leaves 

 very numerous, spreading above, deflexed and deciduous below, scabrous- 



