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the characters of that tribe. In the Old World the only group cor- 
responding to the J/illee is found in the Agapanthee of the Cape of 
Good Hope. . 
The genus Leuecocrinum and the little known Mexican Weldenia 
form an anomalous tribe, which resembles, and not very remotely, the 
Massoniee of the Cape. 
The Hyacinthee and Scillee (hardly separable as tribes) are limited 
almost entirely to Europe (with Western Asia) and Africa, two thirds 
of the 365 species being African. <A half-dozen species are found in 
the East Indies, while in the New World these tribes are represented 
in the northern continent only by the two species of Camassia, and in 
Chili by a single species, referred to Ornithogalum, but probably dis- 
tinct. As concerns these American species, the one character of a 
scapose raceme should not separate them from the Phalangiee. 
Of the other tribes (or subtribes) having a racemose-paniculate 
inflorescence and capsular fruit, the Asphodelee alone (with 40 species) 
are confined to the Mediterranean region and Western Asia, with a 
single genus and species in China and Japan. The remainder, the 
Phalangiee, Conanthereea, Hriospermee, Chlorophytee and Cesiea, 
belong on the other hand as exclusively to Africa and Australia, but 
are represented by a considerable number of small genera in the 
western and warmer portions of North and South America. One 
genus, Schanolirion, is peculiar to the Southern Atlantic and Gulf 
States. The Californian species hitherto united with it is here sepa- 
rated under a genus dedicated to Hon. 8. Clinton Hastings of San 
Francisco, whose active interest and generous liberality in behalf of the 
“ Botany of California” deserve at least this recognition. ‘The chiefly 
African genus Anthericum, as extended by Mr. Baker, is doubtless too 
comprehensive, and the Mexican species referred by him to the sub- 
genus Hesperanthes seem to be sufficiently well characterized to form 
a distinct genus. Several white-flowered species of Mexico and South 
America are also referred by him to Anthericum; the imperfect ma- 
terial at hand does not authorize any other disposal of them, as is 
moreover the case with the two South American species of Chloro- 
phyton, a similar large African genus with a few representatives in 
Australia and India. The Californian Odontostomum is very anom- 
alous in its characters. 
Of the baccato-capsular tribes, the Convallariee (50 species) belong 
to the whole northern temperate zone, and especially to Asia, only 
Smilacina extending southward into the tropics of America, In 
Eastern Asia are also found the small allied groups Liriopee and 
