398 CXXXIII. LILIACER. 
flexed glandular appendix at the apex, many-nerved, the outer 
spreading, flattish, the inner converging. Stamens 6, at the 
base of the sepals, the 3 outer shorter and often barren; fila- 
ments filiform, the 3 inner dilated at base. Ovary sessile, 3- 
celled; ovules numerous; style erect, thick, 3-furrowed. 
Capsule papery. Seeds many, black.—Kunth, l. c. p. 373. 
Bulbous plants, with the habit of Ornithogalum. Racemes lax; flowers 
on long pedicels, cernuous, green yellowish or yellow or striped green and 
white; pedicels spreading, with a long, membranous bract at base.— Several 
species. 
15. UROPETALUM, Gawl. 
Perianth tubular-campanulate, long persistent, at length 
cut across the base and deciduous ; limb 6-parted, regular, 
the segments several-nerved, the outer spreading, often long- 
pointed, inner shorter, broader, more highly connate among 
themselves, converging. Stamens 6, in the throat, included ; 
filaments attached to the perianth-tube, free at the tips only. 
Ovary sessile, oblong, triangular; ovules numerous; style 
erect, bluntly 3-angled; stigma 3-fid. Capsule papery, ob- 
ovoid, depressed, sometimes narrowed at base, sharply 3- 
angled. Seeds numerous, flattened, margin winged, black.— 
Kunth, 1. ¢. p. 377. 
Bulbous plants. Leaves linear, thickish. Raceme simple, sparsely 
flowered ; pedicels short, bracteate at base; flowers nodding, greenish or 
yellowish.—Several species, some undescribed, from Natal. 
TriBE 2. ALLIEZ? (Gen. 16-18.) 
16. AGAPANTHUS, L’Heér. 
Perianth funnel-shaped, regular, at length cut across the 
base and deciduous, deeply 6-parted; tube rather short; seg- 
ments subspathulate, l-nerved, the 3 inner rather larger. 
Stamens in the throat, decurrent along the tube, declinate, as 
long as the segments; filaments filiform. Ovary sessile; 
ovules several ; style filiform, curved. Capsule membranous. 
Seeds flattened, black.— Awnth, 1. c. p. 479. 
A. umbellatus, L’Hér., a well-known garden plant, is a tuberous-rooted, 
scapigerous plant. Leaves numerous, radical, broadly linear, thickish. 
Scape tall, bearing a very-many flowered umbel, involucred by 2 bracts. 
Flowers blue, rarely white.—Grows in various parts of the colony. There 
are 3 or 4 varieties, perhaps species. 
17. TULBAGHIA, Linn. 
Perianth funnel- or salver-shaped, tubular, the tube 3- 
angled, crowned either with a 8-lobed, fleshy corona or with 3 
petaloid scales; limb 6-parted, regular; segments 1-nerved, 
