CXXVII. LILIACER. 3 
tufts, or crowded at the ends of the caudex or branches, but sometimes 
spread along the branches, their sheathing bases distichous, or variously 
imbricated, or scattered, and often persistent after the blade has fallen 
away, the blade or lamina entire or minutely scabrous-denticulate, usually 
narrow with parallel veins, flat channelled or terete, rarely broad with 
distant primary veins and transverse veinlets. Scapes or flowering 
stems or peduncles terminal or rarely axillary, leafless or with 1 or 2 
leaves below the inflorescence smaller than the lower ones, and passing 
into the bracts under the branches of the pump or cotes hien 
are usually reduced to small scales, gt metimes entirely w 
nflorescence variously branched or BE usu ate pi ae or 
e single terminal flower. Perianth usually glabrous, very 
variously coloured, often blue, as well as red, white, yellow, or purple. 
The Order, like the Amaryllidee, is generally distributed over the warmer and 
temperate regions of the globe; most abundant in dry sunny countries. the 
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regions of the gen World, more or less represented also in America, and 2 of them 
extending into more temperat e regions; 3, although chiefly Australian, extend into 
tropical Asia, ind two of them also to New Zealand; 4 are Australian n represe senta- 
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Australian, are also fo 
New Zealand and Tasmanian alpine flora, 1 of them widely era over the 
extreme southern regions of the new as well as the old world ; remaining 24 are, 
as far as hitherto known, "ee y endemic, a large proportion "ot them, however, 
consisting of only one or tw: cies 
In working up , this sen at act d e HR her es Order, I have been 
greatly assisted by Mr. Baker, whose vi pra nee a as given in 
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which e A or nearly endemic, and would pro babl uire a somewhat 
different arrangement in a general system of the whole Wp ide the limits of which 
from bei 
Sers I. Baccatze.— Fruit succulent or fleshy, indehiscent or rarely opening tardily 
in 3 valves. 
Trise I. Smilacese.—Perianth-segments voip Y abr Anthers erect. ae 
into : — paste Embryo distant from the hilum. Albume 
— Bones dus mbers. Leaves with distant eins veins, and transverse nes 
n dii in ile ud culate umbels . MILAX. 
Pori hermaphrodite, in racemes er e ua and axillary 
or terminal and paniculate 
IPOGONUM. 
area Il. Plagellariee. Bate on alae style aaa scald of ae Albu- 
men mealy. Leaf veins all parallel and numerous. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. — Leaves adig in a 
twisted boli pci v e . 8: FLAGELLARIA. 
Trrez III. ianth-segnents distinct rialas: Anthers erect. Styles 
or stigmas very short, eg Tufted herbs . Leaf eins —, 
Flowers dicecious, in terminal racemes or pani 
_ Trier IV. Drymophileee.—Perianth-segments distinet, spreading. sadi erect, 
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