Sora.) LILIACEE. 263 
4, IPHIGENIA, Kunth. ; Fl. Brit. vi, 357, 
Herbs with small tunicate corms and erect leafy slender stems. 
Leaves few, scattered, linear, the upper bract-like. Flowers small, 
erect, solitary or corymbose. Perianth petaloid, 6-partite, stel- 
lately spreading, deciduous ; segments equal, narrow, clawed. 
Stamens 6, hypogynous ; filaments short, flat ; anthers oblong, 
versatile, introrse. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; styles 3, shortly con- 
nate below, linear, recuved, stigmatic within ; ovules many in 
each cell. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds subglobose ; testa 
thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small—species 4, in India, Africa, 
Australia and the Philippines, 
I. indica. A. Gray in Kunth. Enum. iv, 213; F. B. I. vi, 
357 ; Watt E. D. ; Collett Fl. Siml. 529 ; Prain Beng. Pl. 1074 ; 
Cooke Fl. Bomb. wi, 766. 
Corm }-% in. in diam., narrowed into a short neck, tunicate with pale- 
brown sheaths. Stems up to 10 in. high. Leaves sessile, alternate, 
few, coriaceous, the lower ones 6-8 in. long, becoming smaller upwards, 
all linear, sheathing at the base; nerves obscure. Flowers appear- 
ing before the leaves, purple, few or many, in a terminal erect raceme ; 
pedicels }-1 in. long; bracts linear or subulate, the lower leaf-like. 
Perianth-segments 3 in. long, narrow, clawed, spreading, at length 
reflexed. Stamens } in. long. Ovary oblong, about as long as sta- 
mens. Capsule oblong or subovoid, 3-3 in. long, obtuse, 3-grooved. 
Seeds 3; in. in diam., brown. 
Siwalik range (Duthie). Distrrs.: Throughout India from the 
N.-W. Frontier to Burma, ascending Himalaya up to 7,000 ft. and 
to 4-5,000 ft. on Khasia hills ; also in Ceylon and extending to Aus- 
tralia and the Philippines. 
5. SCILLA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 348. 
Herbs with tunicate bulbs. Leaves radical, linear, lorate or 
oblong. Flowers racemose, on a simple leafless scape ; bracts 
small. Perianth petaloid, persistent, stellate or campanulate ; 
segments 6, subequal, often recurved. Stamens 6, adnate at or 
near the base of the perianth-segments ; filaments usually filiform ; 
anthers ovate or oblong, introrse. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules few in 
each cell ; style filliform, stigma small, capitate. Fruit a globose 
3-lobed loculicidal capsule ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds obovoid or 
subglobose ; testa thin, black; embryo shorter than the firm 
albumen.—Species about 80, in Europe and Temp. Asia. 
