3894 CXXXIII. LILIACER. 
TrrpeE 1. Hyacrnrues. (Gen. 1-15.) 
1. VELTHEIMIA, Gled. 
Perianth tubular-subclavate, deciduous ; limb 6-parted, re- 
gular; the lobes short, 1-nerved, suberect. Stamens attached 
to the middle of the perianth-tube, subequal, the longer 
scarcely exserted. Ovary sessile, oblong, 3-celled, tapering 
into a style; ovules 2-3 in each cell; style declinate-ascend- 
ing, filiform, exserted ; stigma shortly 3-lobed. Capsule dry- 
membranous, obovate, sharply 3-angle-winged, loculicidal. 
Seeds black, rugose.— Kunth, Enum. iv. p. 281. 
Bulbous plants, with lanceolate-oblong, undulate, many-nerved leaves. 
Raceme densely many-flowered ; the flowers shortly pedicelled, pendulous, 
purplish-red ; pedicels 2-bracteate at base.—2 or 3 species. 
2. LACHENALTA, Jacq. 
Perianth campanulate or tubular, persistent ; tube short or 
very short; limb deeply 6-parted in 2 rows, segments lying 
close, the outer gibbous dorsally under the apex, the inner 
longer, narrowed below, recurved at the apex. Stamens at- 
tached to the bases of the perianth-segments, often exserted. 
Ovary sessile, 3-celled; ovules many or few; style filiform, 
erect, equalling or exceeding the stamens; stigma obtuse. 
Capsule membranous, 3-cornered, 3-celled. Seeds globose, 
black.— Kunth, l. e. p. 283. 
Bulbous, scapigerous plants. Leaves 1—-2- rarely more-nerved, somewhat 
fleshy. Racemes lax or dense; flowers pedicellate or subsessile, cernuous, 
pendulous or suberect, yellow red greenish or whitish.—35 species, many 
worthy of cultivation. 
3. CHLANTHUS, Willd. 
Perianth amply tubular-clavate, persistent; tube campanu- 
late, saccate-spurred at base, the spur adnate to a short pedi- 
cel.—Other characters as in Lachenalia.—Kunth, l.c. p. 282. 
C. complicatus, Willd., is the only species.—Flowers yellow. 
4, PERIBGA, Kth. 
Perianth somewhat funnel-shaped, 6-cleft to the middle, 
regular, in fruit cut round the base and deciduous; the tube 
furnished on the inside above the base with 6 halfmoon-shaped 
plaits ; segments spathulate-oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved, recurved 
at tip, the outer somewhat keeled. Stamens at the apex of 
the tube, the 3 inner longer, all shorter than the perianth. 
Ovary sessile, ovate, 3-celled; ovules 6 in each cell; style fili- 
form, as long as stamens. Capsule membranous; cells 1-2- 
seeded. Seeds brown, obliquely elliptical— Kunth, l. c. p. 292. 
