CLASSIFICATION. 



A. Ovary superior. 



86. The Lily Family. 



Herbs, or climbing rarely erect shrubs. L. simple with 

 parallel or arcnate nerves sometimes reduced to scales 

 (Asparagus). Fls. large and showy, or sometimes very small 

 (Asparagus), perianth petaloid or sub-sepaloid (Smilax and 



Urginea spp.) 86. Liliaceae (p. 517). 



B. Ovary Inferior. 



87. The Amaryllis Family. 



Usually bulbous or tuberous based herbs (rarely shrubby 

 e.g. Agave), with radical ensiform or lanceolate often plaited 

 leaves and flowers borne on naked scapes (scape very short in 

 Curculigo). Fls. with superior often gamophylloas petaloid 

 perianth, sometimes with a corona. Ovary 3-celled. 



87. Amaryllidaceae (p. 522). 



88. The Tacca Family- 



Herbs with tuberous rootstock and tripartite pinnatifid 

 leaves. Fls. unbelled greenish or purplish with filiform 

 bra M>s. Ovary 1-celled. 88. Taccaceae (p. 527J. 



89. The Yam Family. 



ClimberB with tuberous rootstock and palmi-nerved simple 

 or Z-h-foliolate leaves. Fls. small spicate dioecious. Perianth 

 in two 3-merous whorls. St. in 1 or 2-3-merous whorls. 

 F. with a 3-cornered 3-locular ovary. Fruit a 3-cornered 

 capsule with 2-winged. seeds in each cell. 



89. Dioscoreaceae (p. 528). 

 Order II.— Coiumelinales. 



Herbs, often tuberous. Fls. usually zygomorphic with 

 heterochlamydeous perianth. Sepals 3 usually green. Petals 

 free or connate below. St. in two whorls, 6 perfect or often 

 only 2 or three perfect, the rest reduced to staminodes or 



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