492 AMARYLLIDACE.E. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



Style thick, spiral : stigma perforated, 2-lipped, the lower lip long and pendent. 

 Capsule utricular, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed ovoid, erect, campylotropous. 

 I.mbryo hooked, iu hard albumen. Stemless herbs from fibrous roots. 

 Scape elongated. Petioles terete, dilated and sheathing at the base. Flow- 

 ers in bracted pauicled spikes, commonly two together, and included in a 2- 

 valved spathe. 



1. T. dealbata, Roscoe. Plant dusted over with a minute white pow- 

 der, otherwise smooth; leaves distichous, long-petioled, cordate-ovate, acute; 

 scape terete, reed like ; panicle erect, dense, smooth, the branches not longer 

 than the lanceolate deciduous bracts at their base ; spikes erect ; valves of the 

 spathe unequal, ovate, coriaceous ; tiowers small, purple. Ponds and marshes, 

 South Carolina, and westward. June - Sept. Scape 3 -5 high. Leaves 

 6' -9' long, on petioles l-2 long. 



2. T. divaricata, Chapm. Plant not powdery ; leaves oblong-ovate, 

 acute, rounded at the base, loug-petioled ; panicle large, divaricate, the 

 branches much lunger than the linear deciduous bracts, hairy at the joints; 

 spikes 6 - 1 0-flowered, zigzag, pendulous ; valves of the spathe unequal, oblong, 

 membrauaceous, hairy ; flowers small, purple ; seed ovoid, enclosed iu a loose 

 membranaceous pericarp. -- Ponds, Apalachicola, Florida. Sept. -Oct. 

 Scape 5- 10 high. Leaves l-2 long. Panicle 2 -4 wide, purplish. 



2. CANNA, L. INDIAN SHOT. 



Sepals 3. Corolla 6-parted ; the three exterior divisions equal ; the interior 

 bilabiate, with the upper lip 2-3-parted, or sometimes wanting, the lower en- 

 tire. Filaments petal-like. Anther marginal. < Ivary 3-celled, many-ovuled. 

 Style petal-like. Stigma marginal. Capsule covered with a dense bristly 

 coat, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Placentae central. Seeds globose, anatro- 

 pous. Embryo straight in horny albumen. Stems leafy. Leaves narrowed 

 into a sheathing petiole. Flowers spiked, showy. 



1. C. flaccida, Roscoe. Stem erect from a creeping rootstock ; leaves 

 ovate lanceolate, narrowed into a sheathing petiole ; spike few-flowered ; 

 sepals lanceolate, half the length of the tube of the funnel shaped corolla; 

 inner divisions of the corolla obovate, flaccid ; capsule few-seeded. Miry 

 swamps, Florida to South Carolina, near the coast. June - August. Stem 

 2 - 4 high. Leaves 9' - 1 5' long. Corolla 3' - 4' long. 



ORDER 146. AMARYLLJDACEJE. (AMARYLLIS FAMILY.) 



Chiefly stemless smooth and succulent herbs, with linear leaves, 

 and smooth (not scurfy or woolly) often showy flowers. Sepals and 

 petals united to form a 6-parted corolla like perianth, imbricated in 

 the bud, the tube aclnate to the 3-celled ovary. Stamens 6 : anthers 

 introrse. Ovules anatropous, attached to the central placentae. Style 

 single. Fruit 1 - 3-celled, valvular or indehiscent. Embryo straight 

 in fleshy albumen, the radicle resting on the umbilicus. 



