2«2 



Liliacece. 



\SmiIax^ 



Kalpitiya, and other places, and there are specimens from him (see 

 Bentl. and Trim. Med. PI. iv. 282). The native country oi A. vera seems 

 to be N. Africa and the desert regions of Arabia, &c. No species of 

 Aloe is included in Fl. B. Ind., it is therefore not considered wild either 

 in N.W. India, where it {A. indica, Royle) is common, or here. Our 

 variety has short leaves, and a perfectly simple spicate raceme with red 

 flowers. In my Syst. Cat. (p. 94) I have included it as a native, and it is 

 not impossible that it may, like so many plants of the desert region, find 

 its limit on our N.W. coast; but I doubt if it seeds here. — Trimen. 



Poliantlies iiibcrosa, Linn. (Herm. Mus. 35. Burm. Thes. 122. Fl. 

 Zeyl. 125.) The Tuberose, a Mexican plant, is cultivated in gardens only. 



Fruit a berry. 

 Ovules orthotropous. 

 Climbers, 1. broad . 

 Climbers, with narrow cladodes 

 Ovules anatropous 



Shrub 



Herbs. 



L. narrow, distichous 

 L. broad 

 Fr. capsular. 



Root of fleshy fibres . 

 Rootstock bulbous. 

 Fl. umbellate 

 Fl. racemose. 

 Perianth tubular 

 Perianth 6-partite. 

 Seeds winged 

 Seeds not winged 

 Rootstock a corm. 

 Erect herb, 1. linear . 

 Climbing undershrub, 1. ovate . 



1. Smilax. 



2. Asparagus. 



3. DRAC/ENA. 



4. Dianella. 



5. DiSPORUM. 



6. Chlorophytum. 



7. Allium. 



8. DiPCADI. 



9. Urginea. 



10. SCILLA. 



ri. Iphigenia. 

 12. Gloriosa. 



I. SmiliAX, Li/m. 

 Climbing or rambling evergreen shrubs (the Ceylon sp.); 

 1. alt., simple, persistent, 3-9-veined, venules reticulate, petiole 

 sheathing at the base, sheath often 2-cirrhiferous ; infl. um- 

 bellate, fl. dioecious, small, ped. bracteate, pedicels bracteolate; 

 perianth inferior, segm. 6, free, incurved or recurved ; male 

 fl. : — stam. 6, inserted on the base of the perianth ; fil. free, 

 anth. didymous or oblong; pistillode small, or o; fem. fl.: — 

 staminodes 3 or 6 ; ov. trigonous, 3-celled, cells 1-2-ovuled, 

 style short, or o; stigmas 3, recurved, ovules orthotropous, 

 pendulous; fr. a globose berry; seeds solitary, globose, or 2-3 

 hemispheric or angular, smooth, embryo small, in horny 

 endosperm. — Sp. about 120; 33 in Fl.B.Ind. 



Umbels in short axillary spikes ' i. A. aspera. 



Umbels solitary, or 2-3 on a common peduncle . 2. A. zeylanica. 



Umbels many, racemose or panicled . . 3. A. prolifera. 



