Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 87 



Filaments connate in a fleshy ring ••• 2. Pcliosanthes. 

 Filaments free 3. Ophiopogon. 



§ 3. ANTHERICEAE. Leaves narrow. In- 

 florescence panicled or racemose. Capsule 

 three lobeel, seeds flat ±. Chlorophytum. 



Fruit baccate. 



Herbs with habit of Chlofophytum but 



fruit a blue or white berry 5, Dianella. 



§ 1. Aspidistreae. Ehizome or erect 

 stem short. Leaves herbaceous broad. Flow- 

 ers racemose or spicate. Perianth campanu- 

 late. Stamens adnate to the tube. 6. Tupistra. 



§ 5. ASPARAGEAE. Steins slender, erect or 

 climbing. Leaves replaced by linear or acicu- 

 lar cladodes. Flowers small solitary racemed 7. Asparagus. 



§ 6. DRACAENEAE. Shrubs or trees. 

 Leaves subcoriaceous. Perianth cylindric or 

 campanulate. Berry 1 to 3 seeded 8. Dracaena. 



§ 7. SMIL ACE AE. Climbing or rarely erect 

 shrubs. Leaves 3-5 nerved, nervules reticulate, 

 petiole usually crrrhiferous. Flowers in umbels 

 unisexual small green or yellow. 



Petals and sepals free to the base ••• 9. Siuilax. 



Perianth lobes connate in a tube 10. Ilctcrosmilax. 



§ 1. Protoliriaceae. 



1. PROTOLIRION, Eidley and Groom. 



Small slender saprophyte, with a slender rhizome. Stem erect. 

 Leaves scale-like. Eaceme corymbiform. Flowers small pedicellate. 

 Bracts lanceate bifid. Sepals narrow. Petals broader. Stamens 6, 

 3 epigynous, 3 epipetalous. Anthers basifixed. Nectaries 3 opposite 

 the petals. Pistil of three follicular carpels, syncarpous and adnate to 

 the base of the perianth below, apocarpous above. Ovules anatropous, 

 axillary in 2 rows. Capsules ovoid dehiscing above. Seeds 12 in each 

 carpel elliptic oblong nodulose. 



P. PARADOXUM, Eidley and Groom. Ann. Bot. Vol. IX. p. 45. pi. 



III. Ehizome 1-3 inches long. Stem flexuous 1-7 inches tall. Scalo 



leaves crowded at the base and scattered above. Eaceme 6 flowered. 



Flowers yellow on pedicels 2 inch long. Bracts lanceate obtuse bifid. 



Sepals narrowly lanceolate acuminate. Petals larger ovate obtuse. 



