7GG CXXXII. LILIACE.'E. 



often undulate. Stamens 6, hypogyuous ; filaments filiform ; anthers 

 linear, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing extrorsely. Ovary 3-celled; 

 ovules numerous in each cell ; style filiform, deflexed, with 3 subulate 

 arms, stigmatose within. Fruit a large coriaceous septicidal capsule. 

 Seeds subglobose ; testa spongy, wing-like ; embryo cylindric. — Disxeib. 

 Tropical Asia and Africa ; species 3 or 4. 



1. Gloriosa superba, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 305. A herbaceous 

 tall glabrous branching climber ; rootstock of arched, solid, fleshy-white, 

 cylindric tubei's 6-12 by l-lg in., pointed at each end, bifurcately 

 branched or V-shaped, producing a new joint at the end of each 

 branch; roots fibrous ; stems annual, 10-20 ft. long, given of¥ from the 

 angles of the young tubers, herbaceous. Leaves sessile or nearly so, 

 3-6 by f- If in., scattered or opposite, or sometimes (from the sup- 

 pression of the internodes) ternately whorled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 tip ending in a tendril-like spiral, base cordate ; nerves parallel. 

 Flowers large, axillary, solitary, or subcorymbose towards the euds of 

 the branches from the nearness of the leaves, remaining for about 

 7 days without withering; pedicels 3-6 in. long, the tips deflexed. 

 Perianth-segments reaching 2^ by g-g in., linear-lanceolate with crisply 

 waved margins, greenish at first, then yellow, passing through orange 

 and scarlet to crimson. Filaments 1|-1| in. long, spreading; anthers 

 nearly | in. long. Style reacliing 2 in. long ; the arms about i in. long. 

 Capsules If by f in., linear-oblong. The change of color which takes 

 place during the time the flowers remain without drooping, has caused a 

 discrepancy in descriptions by several authors, and new species have 

 actually been founded in consequence of the variation. Fl. B. I. v. 6, 

 p. 358 ; Grab. Cat. p. 221 ; AVight, Icon. t. 2047 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, 

 p. 294 ; Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 17 (1879) p. 457 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 524; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1073; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 506. Methonica" superha., Lam. Encyc. 

 Method. V. 4 (1797) p. 133 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 250 (il/e«/jo»ua).— Flowers : 

 July-Oct. Vern. Baclindg ; Kliadydndg. 



KoNKAN : Stocksl, Graham; Vingorla, Woodrow ; along the Railway line between 

 Karjat and Kalyan abundant, Cooke \ Gujarat : Graham. — Distuib. Throughout 

 Tropical India; Ceylon, Tropical Africa, Malacca, Oochinchina. 



0. IPHIGENIA, Kunth. 



Herbs with small tunicate cornis ; stems erect, slender, leafy. Leaves 

 few, scattered, linear, the upper bract-like. Flowers small, erect, 

 solitary or corymbose. Perianth petaloid, 6-partite, slellately spreading, 

 deciduous ; segments equal, narrow, clawed. Stamens 0, hypogynous ; 

 filaments short, flat; anthers oblong, versatile, introrsrly attached. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; ovules numerous in c^ach cell ; styles 3, shortly coininte 

 below, free above, lin(>ar, recurved, stigmatose within. Fruit a loculicidal 

 capsule. Seeds subglobose; testa thin, brow n, appressed ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo small. — Diaxiiiii. India, Africa, and Australia; species 4. 



Pcriinith purple ; segments linear-subulate 1 . /. hidii'a. 



Pcriiuitli wiiitisb ; epgments oblanceohito 2. I. pallida. 



1. Iphigenia indica, A. draii, in Knnili, Emim. v. 4 (1843) p. 213. 

 Conn subglobose, .1-fj in. in diam., narrowed into a short neck, tunicate 



