Dioscorea.| LILIACEAE, 439 
1 ft. or more long, 3—5 in axillary fascicles. Flowers bibracteate, slender, 
about 2’, the limb half the length of the adnate portion. Staminodes 6. 
Styles recurved, emarginate. Capsule oblong, 9“ long, the lobes scarcely 
3” in width. Seeds winged at the lower end only. — D. bulbifera, Wight 
og 7 ee — Helmia bulbifera, Kunth, Enum. Pl. V, 435. — Mrs. Sinclair, 
s Fike Yam, commo the forests of the lower zone, was cultivated for the supply of 
ships before the secinrb cali of the Potato, boc aaa) ly on Kauai and Niihau. The 
species ranges westward over all the regions lying hetween the Hawaiian Islands and 
pepe cy its native name «Hoi» follows it to Sumatra. The axillary bulbs are called 
«alaal 
2. * pentaphylla, L. — Kunth, Enum. Pl. V, 396. — Stems angular. 
prickly, puberulous. Leaves scattering, membranous with pellucid Apes, 
pidate, stipitate at the narrow base, 4—5’ long; the petioles 4‘. Male 
racemes solitary or twin, simple or paniculate with branches solitary or 
ternate of about 1/ in length, the rhachis and pedicels pubescent. Pedicels 
1/2, bibracteolate. Segments of perianth equal, ovate- lanceolate, some- 
what acute, sisal Only 3 stamens fertile, the others Sen: scale- 
Hike. viaich, ged. — Bab cols Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. tab. 814. 
S$ yam, pri «Piia», is less common than the preceding one; fa has a small tube 
and was, I sieee never & caltiyited. Its range is nearly that of t e preceding recog 
A third species has been seen wi me in the neighborhood of rere but I regret 
not to find a specimen in my collec 
Orper LXXXV. LILIACEAE. 
Flowers usually regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual. fees inferior, 
petal-like, with usually 6 divisions or lobes. Stamens 6 (rarely 3 or 
12—18), inserted at the base of the segments or in the tube. ary 
free, 3-celled, with axile placentas (rarely the partitions a and 
the placentas parietal), with several ovules or one only in cell. Style 
single, with an entire or 3-lobed stigma, or rarely 3 souills stigmas. 
ruit a berry or capsule. Embryo immersed in fleshy albumen. — 
Perennial plants with a creeping bulbous or ees root - stock and 
radical leaves and peduncles, or with annual, biennial or perennial, often 
woody, leafy stems. 
In cultivation : Lig gee : ee dns Japonica 
oe (severa bed oe Yu eca gloriose, . 4 anon tind, gine 
: , Glori nd 
rigs and other sp., spr recat L. la superba a 
ae nents the leaves broad, with anastomosing nerves = 
with 2 cirrhi; flowers in umbels; segments of perianth distinc 
ovules eolitary or twin in each cell; | Style wanting or very short 1. Smilaz. 
Stem erect, woody; 1 
perianth campanulate or funnel-shaped ; style filifo: 
Stem simple; leaves broad ovate; or nth Bice divided ; ovules 
many in each cell s 2 ‘ 
2, Cordyline. 
