86. LILIACJSJE. [ 1. SmiIax. 



DL. Erect or climbing herbs or undershrubs with 

 a leafy atem, creeping or tuberous rootstock 

 and conspicuous flowers. Anthers extrorse . 



Climbing by the cirrhose leaves. Fls- hand- 

 some solitary 3. Qlorioga. 



Erect branched. Fls. \-\" in umbels . . 4. Disporum. 

 III. Herbs with bulbous or cormoBe rootstock, 

 or fleshy roots, stem short or 0. 



Bootstock very small with fleshy roots. Fls. 

 racemed. Perianth spreading white . . 5. Chlorophytum, 



Bootstock a bulb. Fls. iraoemed. Perianth 

 spreading purple 6. Bcilla. 



Bootstock a bulb. Fls« racemed. Perianth 

 "campanulate 7. Urginea. 



Bootstock a corm. Fls. ereot corymbose. 

 Perianth spreading • . . . .8. Iphigenia. 



1. Smilax, L. 



L. with several strong curved primary nerves reticnlate 

 between, base of short petiole sheathing often winged or 

 anncled and nsnally bearing a pair of stipnlar tendrils. Fls. 

 very small dioecious, nmbelled. Umbels usually in bracteate 

 cymes or panicles. Perianth leaves 6. St. G, sometimes more. 

 Staminodes in the F. fl. 3 or 6. Style 0, stigmas 3. Ovules 1 

 or 2 in each cell. Fruit a berry. 



I. Umbels panicled with slender peduncles.. 



Sheath often auricled .... 1. prolifera. 



II. Umbels 1-3. 



a, Sheath without large auricles. 



Branches terete. L. 6-18", 5-7-nerved. 

 Sep. i* . . . ' . .2. macrcphylla. 



Branches angled. L. 5-7'', 3-5-nerved. 



Sep. H" 3. xeyJanica. 



b. Sheath with large auricles often embracing 



the branch . . • . . . .4. Eoxburghiana. 



1. S. prolifera, Boxb. Atkir, K, 



A stout prickly climber with stipular tendrils tm the young 

 shoots, and elliptic, rarely elliptic-ovate leaves, with sheath 



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