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crown, with bifid lobes alternate with the oblong versatile anthers. 

 Capsule sessile, subglobose-triquetrous. Seeds large. 



*- ■*- Perianth salver-form ; segments 3-nerved : pedicels not jointed. 



9. Milla. Flowers white, greenish outside with stout green midveins, 



the tube narrowly turbinate. Stamens nearly sessile, in one row, 

 naked : authers basifixed. Capsule sessile, oblong-obovate. 



Tktbe III. Leucocrineae. Acaulescent ; flowers on subterranean pedicels 

 in a sessile umbel, with elongated linear bracts, from a short rootstock : peri- 

 anth salver-form, with linear tube and several-nerved segments : stamens in 

 one row near the throat ; anthers basifixed : capsule sessile, triangular-obovate ; 

 seeds obovate, angled, several in each cell. 



10. Leucocrinum. Flowers white, very fragrant. Filaments fili- 

 form ; anthers linear. Style slender and elongated, tubular, 

 dilated at the summit. Leaves narrowly linear, surrounded at 

 base by scarious bracts. Floral bracts sheathing the pedicels. 



Subseries II. Inflorescence racemose or paniculate. 



Tribe IV. Phalangieae. Flowers mostly small, with distinct segments, on 

 jointed naked pedicels with small bracts, in simple or usually paniculate racemes : 

 stem somewhat leafy or naked, from a tunicated bulb or rootstock or fleshy- 

 fibrous root : anthers versatile. 



* Capsule obovate or oblong : seeds angled, several in each cell : flowers 

 rather large, racemose on a naked scape from a tunicated bulb. 



11. Camassia. Floweft blue (rarely white), slightly gibbous; seg- 

 ments 3— 7-nerved, spreading. Base of the style persistent. 

 Seeds black and shining. Raceme open. Leaves linear, flat. 



* * Capsule oblong; cells several-seeded: seeds angular and somewhat flat- 

 tened: pedicels (usually fascicled) jointed near the middle : root fleshy-fibrous. 



12. Hesperanthes. Flowers yellow or yellowish; segments spread- 

 ing from the base, 3-5-nerved in the middle, twice longer than the 

 stamens, at length twisted over the ovary. Filaments muricate, 

 longer than the anthers. Style elongated and very slender, 

 becoming declinate. Leaves narrowly linear and grass-like, sur- 

 rounded at base by the fibrous remnants of older ones. — Anthe- 

 ricum, subgen. Hesperanthes, Baker, Jouru. Linn. Soc. 15. 317. 



* * * Capsule triangular-obovate, 3-lobed ; cells (2-ovuled) 1-2-seeded : seeds 

 obovate: pedicels (mostly solitary) jointed at the summit: stem from a tuni- 

 cated bulb or rootstock. — Subtribe Chlorogale^;. 



13. Schcenolirion. Flowers yellow or whitish, in loose simple or 

 sparingly panicled racemes, the perianth not scarious nor becom- 

 ing connivent or twisted over the ovary ; segments distinctly 



