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3—5-nerved, exceeding the stamens. Style short. Capsule de 
pressed globose, deeply-lobed. Seeds subglobose, shining. Stem 
naked, scaly and thickened at base, from a thick rootstock. 
Leaves rather rigid, few-nerved, very narrow, flat. Pedicels 
slender, exceeding the flowers and bracts. Atlantic States. 
14. Hastinesra. Flowers white or greenish, in densely many- 
flowered sparingly panicled racemes, the perianth lax and scari- 
ous; segments closely 3- (apparently 1-) nerved, equalling the 
stamens. Style short. Ovary oblong-ovate, not deeply lobed. 
Stem naked or sparingly leafy, from a tunicated bulb. Leaves 
broader and more fleshy. Pedicels stout, much shorter than the 
flower and bract. California. 
15. CHtoroGaLum. Flowers white or pinkish, in loose paniculate 
racemes; perianth at length twisted over the ovary ; segments 
distinctly 3-nerved. Style long, deciduous. Seeds blackish, 
somewhat rugose. Bulbs with membranous or densely fibrous 
coats. Leaves with undulate margins. California. 
Trize V. Odontostomez. Flowers small, on solitary bracteolate not 
jointed pedicels in an open panicle; the stem leafy at base, from a fibrous- 
coated corm: perianth salver-form, deciduous: stamens on the throat ; anthers 
subglobose, basifixed, dehiscent at the summit: style deciduous. 
16. Opontostomum. Flowers yellowish, the cylindrical 12-nerved 
tube about equalling the at length reflexed 5-nerved segments. 
Stamens very short, alternating with as many small linear stami- 
nodia. Capsule triangular-obovate, 3-lobed; cells (2-ovuled) 
l-seeded. Seeds obovate, with dark brown testa. California. 
Trine VI. Convallarieze. Flowers on jointed pedicels in terminal racemes 
or racemose panicles or in axillary fascicles, upon leafy simple stems (or a 
naked scape in Convallaria) from creeping rootstocks: perianth 6-cleft or of 
4 or 6 distinct 1-nerved small glandless segments: style short, usually some- 
what persistent ; stigma slightly lobed : fruit a globose berry : seeds 1 to several 
in each cell, ascending or horizontal, subglobose, with close thin testa. Stem 
naked below (scarious-sheathed at base) : leaves cordate to lanceolate. 
* Perianth gamophyllous, campanulate or cylindrical, at length deciduous. 
17. Convatiarta. Acaulescent. Flowers white, campanulate, cleft 
to the middle, on recurved pedicels with small lanceolate bracts, 
in a simple one-sided raceme upon a slender curved scape. Sta- 
mens near the base; anthers ovate-oblong, sub-basifixed. Style 
stout, persistent; stigma triangular: ovules 2 or 3 pairs in each 
cell. Berries red, usually 6-seeded. Leaves 2 or 3, the long 
petioles convolute and stem-like. 
