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leaves rarely extend at all above ground, the bracts are never 

 elongated, and the filaments are without cusps or teeth, the bases 

 united into an adnate disk (except in A. tricoccum). 



2. Nothoscordum. Flowers greenish or yellowish white. Cap- 



sule oblong-obovate, somewhat lobed, obtuse, with the style ob- 

 scurely jointed on the summit ; cells several-ovuled. Filaments 

 filiform, distinct, adnate at base. Bracts 2. Leaves several. 

 Bulb tunicated : not alliaceous. 



Tribe II. Milleae. Bracts several, not spathaceous, distinct : capsule not 

 lobed (or slightly so), acute, and beaked by the mostly stout (at length split- 

 ting) style : seeds few to several in each cell, angular : perianth-segments more 

 or less united or distinct, 1-nerved or rarely closely 2-3-nerved : scape from a 

 membranous- or fibrous-coated corm. 



* Perianth parted to the base or nearly so ; segments spreading, closely 

 2-3-nerved : stamens in one row at the base ; anthers versatile : capsule obovate 

 or subglobose, sessile or nearly so ; cells several-seeded. 



3. Muilla. Flowers greenish-white. Filaments filiform, naked, 



adnate at base. Pedicels not jointed. Leaves several. 



4. Bloomeria. Flowers yellow, on jointed pedicels. Filaments 



elongated, free, surrounded at base by a somewhat cup-shaped 

 and winged appendage. Leaf solitary. 



* * Perianth evidently gamophyllous, with the stamens on the throat. 

 ■t- Perianth funnel- form ; segments 1-nerved »( very rarely 2-3-nerved in 

 Brodicea) : pedicels jointed (except in Androstephium) . 



5. Brodicea. Perianth more or less narrowly funnel-form, not con- 



tracted at the throat, nor saccate or but very slightly so at base, 

 blue-purple or white or yellow. Stamens 6, in one or two rows 

 with winged or naked filaments, or 3 and alternate with as many 

 staminodia. Capsule ovate to oblong. 



6. Stropholirion. Flowers rose-colored, the short broadly turbinate 



tube 6-saccate, contracted at the throat, about equalling the 

 spreading limb. Stamens 3, alternate with 3 ligulate staminodia ; 

 filaments winged ; anthers basifixed. Capside nearly sessile, ovate, 

 acuminate. 



7. Brevoortia. Perianth-tube broad, 6-saccate at base, deep scarlet, 



several times longer than the short erect or reflexed yellowish limb. 

 Stamens 3, alternate with 3 broad truncate staminodia ; anthers 

 basifixed, nearly sessile. Capsule long-stipitate, ovate, acuminate. 



8. Androstephium. Flowers pale lilac, the cylindrical tube about 



equalling or shorter than the somewhat spreading limb. Sta- 

 mens 6, in one row ; the filaments united to form an erect tubular 



