CXXXIII. LILIACE®. 395 
Small, bulbous, scapigerous plants. Leaves 2-4, linear, fleshy, girt at 
base, together with the scape, by a truncate, hyaline sheath. Scape short, 
few-flowered ; flowers corymbose, erect, pedicellate, rosy-purple.—3 species, 
of which P. corymbosa (Hyacinthus corymbosus, Linn.) abounds at Green 
Point in March. 
5. POLYXENA, Kth. 
Perianth tubular-funnelshaped; tube very long, narrow, in 
fruit cut round at base and deciduous; limb regular of 6 revo- 
lute, spathulate-oblong, 1-nerved, nearly equal segments, the 
outer somewhat keeled. Stamens at the summit of the tube, 
shorter than the perianth-lobes; filaments filiform. Ovary 
sessile; ovules about 6 in each cell; style filiform, elongate, 
erect. Capsule membranous, roundish. Seeds 1-2 in each 
cell, obliquely-elliptical, brownish.— Kunth, l. c. p. 294. 
A small, bulbous plant. Leaves 2, lanceolate-oblong. Flowers pale 
purple, in a loose corymb between the leaves.—1 species, from the Western 
districts. 
6. MASSONTA, Thunb. 
Perianth salyer- shaped, persistent; tube cylindrical, straight; 
limb 6-parted, segments 1-nerved, equal, widely spreading or 
reflexed, more or “less shorter than the tube. Stamens in the 
throat, longer than the limb, erect; filaments dilated at base. 
Ovary sessile; ovules numerous, rarely few; style filiform, 
very long, erect. Capsule membranous, 3-angled. Seeds sub- 
globose, black, shining.—Awmnth, l. ¢. p. 295. 
Bulbous plants. Leaves 2, often appressed to the soil, somewhat fleshy, 
mostly broad, nerve-striate, sometimes hairy. Scape very short; flowers 
corymbose ; outer bracts often very broad.—Several species. 
7. DAUBENYA, Lindl. 
Flowers di-poly-morphous; inner or upper flowers tubular, 
with a very short, subequally 6-parted, spreading limb; medial 
flowers more or less irregular ; peripheric or lowest flowers 
very unequally 2-labiate, the upper lip of 3 small, acute seg- 
ments ; the lower very large, deeply 3-parted, the lobes oblong, 
obtuse. Stamens 6, at the base of the segments of the 
perianth, unequal ; filaments subulate, dilated at base; anthers 
versatile. Ovary sessile, 3-angled, tapering into a style; 
ovules 6-10 in each cell. — Kunth, l.c. p. 300; Lindl. Bot. Req. 
t. 1813, and 1889, t. 53, 
Bulbous, 2-leayed plants, with the habit of Massonia, from which this 
genus chiefly differs by the very unequal-limbed, radiating outer flowers of 
the capitate, subsessile corymb; the innermost flowers are nearly as regular 
as those of Massonia. Flowers yellow or crimson,—2 or 8 species; very 
handsome. 
