LILIACE^. (LILY FAMILY.) 783 



loculicidciUy o-valved. Seeds flattened, winged at angles — ►Stemlcs-s 

 or caulescent plants, or shrubs, with rosettes of very fleshy leaves. 



A. vera, L. If Stem short, thick, somewhat divided. Leaves 

 sessile, crowded, lanceolate, erect-spreading, rather concave, spiny- 

 toothed at margin. Scape longer than leaves, scaly, branched ; racemes 

 long, dense; bracts short-lanceolate, membranous, longer than the short 

 pedicel; flowers pendulous, imbricated, yellow; anthers somewhat 

 cxserted — Summer — Syrian coast. Commonly planted iu cemeteries. 



2. ASPHODEJLUS, L. Asi-hodkl. 



Perigouium spreading, regular, with equal, 1-nerved divisions, 

 connate at base. Filaments dilated at base, concave, surrounding the 

 ovar^', then filiform, ascending; anthers equal, fixed by the middle of 

 their back. Ovary o-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell; style filiform; 

 stigma capitate-3-lobed. Capsule leathery, loculicidally ;j-valved. 

 Seeds acutely triquetrous, transversely grooved at back — PTerbs, with 

 roots consisting of clustered tubers or slender fibres, and a leafless 

 scape, with panicled or racemed flowers, the pedicels jointed above or 

 near their middle. 



* Leaves not ^fistulous, jlatterwd truiuetroas. Moots tuJjcroiis and rjibhoitx, 



perennial. 



1. A. iiiicrocarpiis, Viv. % Tlmwai. ^Ansat. Tubers spindle- 

 shaped, .1 to .2 long, .01 to .02 thick; neck surrounded by bristly 

 fibres. Leaves sw^ord-shaped, ,5 to 1 long, .01 to .02 broad, tapering 

 at tip. Scape 1 or more, terete, soJid; racemes dense, spreading, pan- 

 icled; pedicels erect, shorter than flowers; perigonium .02 broad, 

 white, funnel-shaped, divisions oblong, obtuse, with a reddish or 

 greenish keel ; capsule obovate, .008 long — February to April — Waste 

 hillsides; common from coast to middle mountain zones and interior 

 plains; Ghor-e?-Satieh. 



'•= * Leaves /istulous. Hoots jibroiu, monocarju'' or jjercnniaf. 



2. A. li»itiilosU!«, L. 0) U .;5 to 1. Leaves narrowly linear, 

 semiterete, keeled at lower surface, with roughish margins, tapering- 

 subulate, shorter than scape. Scape dichotomously branched; bracts 

 lanceolate, acuminate; pedicels jointed aJjout middle; flowers white or 

 flesh-colored, rotate, divisions .01 to. 025 long, with a greenish or purple 

 stripe; capsule .005 in diameter — Spring — Fields and roadsides; 

 common from coast to middle mountain zones and interior plains. 



3. A. tciiiiifoliiisi, Car. 2^ JJajicio/. .2 to .5 or more. Leaves 

 narrowly linear, semiterete, tapering-subulate, shorter than scape, icit/i 

 rougher margins than in last . Scape simple or dichotomously branched ; 

 bracts triangular at base, acuminate; pedicels jointed below middle; 

 flowers white, cam-punulitc, divisions .Oi:) long, with a purple stripe; 

 capsule .003 in diameter. 



Var. iiiici*aiitlili$i, Boiss. Capsules and flowers a little smaller 

 — Southern Deserts; coast of southern Palestine. 



4. A, viscid II I us, Boiss. 21 .2 to .25. Leaves subulate-linear, 

 viscid, glahrous. Scapes 3-4, ascending outside of rosettes of leaves^ 

 simple, the naked portion shorter than leaves, vnccme few-Jio7rered ; 



