4.02 CXXXIII. LILIACE. 
Stemless plants, with fascicled roots, with the habit of Trachyandra, but 
readily known by the spirally-twisted, persistent perianth and solitary seeds. 
The genus was founded on several New Holland species, which are said to 
have indehiscent seed-vessels. 4 Cape plants have been added, and in 
C. Thunbergii, R. and S., the capsule is as above described. 
27. CYANELLA, Linn. 
Perianth 6-parted, slightly irregular, deciduous ; sepals con- 
nate at base and adnate to the base of the ovary, widely 
spreading, the lateral outer sepals 5-nerved, the lower 7—9- 
nerved, the 3 inner 3-nerved. Stamens 6, at the base of the 
perianth, declinate ; filaments short, glabrous, monadelphous ; 
anthers of the 5 upper stamens slender (abortive), opening by 
terminal pores, of the sixth (lowest), stamen large, perfect, 
splitting longitudinally. Ovary partly inferior ; ovules several ; 
style filiform, deflexed; stigma 3-fid. Capsule bluntly 3- 
angled. Seeds several.—Awnth, 1. c. p. 685. 
Plants with tubero-bulbous roots and radical, lanceolate or linear nerve- 
striate leaves, sheathing at base. Scape mostly branched. Flowers on long 
pedicels, cernuous, purple, rosy, white or yellow, sweet-scented.—(C. Capensis, 
with bright purple flowers, is common, and there are 4 others. 
GENUS OF DOUBTFUL AFFINITY. 
28. ERIOSPERMUM, Jacq. 
Perianth 6-parted, urceolate-campanulate, regular, marces- 
cent; sepals connate at base, l-nerved, the inner wider and 
shorter. Stamens 6, in the throat of the perianth, much 
shorter than it; filaments broad, membranous, persistent. 
Ovary sessile, subglobose; ovules 6-8 in each cell; style 
thickish; stigma obtuse, simple. Capsule membranous, 3- 
celled, loculicidal. Seeds few, densely covered with. soft, 
woolly hairs.—Kunth, 1. ¢. p. 649. 
Stemless plants, with large, unshapely, tuberous roots. Leaves mostly 
appearing before the flowers, petioled, with a broad lamina, coriaceous, 
nerved. Scapes emerging after the leaves, simple, nude, racemose at the 
summit ; pedicels elongate, not jointed to the perianth.—8 or 9 species. 
TrisE 4. Mernuonicem. (Gen. 29-31.) 
29. METHONICA, Herm. 
Perianth 6-parted, marcescent-persistent ; sepals distinct, 
lanceolate, narrowed at base, undulate, without nectary, re- 
flexed. Stamens 6, at the base of the sepals, very widely 
spreading ; filaments long, filiform, straight. Ovary sessile, 
obliquely oblong, 8-celled; ovules numerous; style filiform, 
strongly bent backwards ; stigmas 3, long, narrow, channelled, 
patent-recurved. Capsule turbinate, coriaceous, 3-celled, 
