Thysanotus.} CXXVII. LILIACEA. 37 
length, with an opaque 8-nerved centre, the 3 outer usually narr 
acute with narrow thin entire margins, the 8 inner with broad civit 
margins, rolled inwards over the inner stamens in the bud, and peed 
fringed on the edges. Stamens 3 opposite the outer segments hypogy- 
nous or sometimes wanting, 3 attached to the base of the inner seg- 
ments, all more or less declinate in the expanded flower, shorter than 
ting in 
thick ctas 8-celled, with 2 icr ovules in each cell; style fili- 
form, undivided. Capsule usually globular, 3-valved. ds i 
simple or ethane branched. Flowers in terminal or rarely lateral 
umbels rarely reduced to a single flower. Bracts short scarious imbri- 
hig: co. are all ARA but one of n extends to the Philippine Islands 
d South a. They are often very difficult to discriminate, especially from 
inner and outer ens and the absence of the latter in some species may not be 
always so constant as would | appear at first sight. 
SERIES l. Triandre. Stamens 3. oer densely tufted, with numerous radical leaves 
shorter vB the scape. Species all West. 
simple, with a single aoia terminal um 
bel, or very rarely a secon neo one gigs down. 
Plant quite glabrous . . ` " Wo. decide mono" 
Leaves hirsute o hd LEY 
Scape and vii s slender. Umbels fow-flowered, several, 
orten num a dense terminal p 
Roots fibrous, w without UN Sow E orans : T. gla 
Roots tubero En rna di 
Scape T be witha single few-flowered umbel . i * T. pauciflorus. 
Serre Hexan "guns vaa 2 3 usually o bud "M longer than the others. 
Stock « k densely fane, wi radical lea No 
Um 
Rigid and Mine. Flowers. 9 to 10 lines long, on short 
pedicels. W species 6. T. "asper. 
Slender and glabrous. Flowers 3 3 to 4 lines long, on 
long pedicels. 'Tro opical spec 7. T. ehrysantherus. 
Stock usuall oo with mr adioa] l Tostes often 
piers ete Roots often tuberous. panicu- 
late at the end, with sa few-dowered a ars 
Radical leaves n Scapes short. 
Panicles comp mets e v cam ic Western 
cac E, Mab. 9 + ow od 32 BÀ. Tt ero. 
Stamens 3 iar pl sitis >e » 9. T. tenelios, 
