786 LIL1ACE^?5. (LILY FAMILY.) 



or owing to incompleteness of septa, 1-celled. Ovules 2-3-6 in each 

 cell, campylotropous. Style filiform, straight. Stigma simple or cap- 

 itate. Capsule membranous or parchment-like, o-celled or by abortion 

 I'Celled. Seeds angled, implanted at the central angle of the cell 

 above its base — Herbs with bulbs covered with tunics, a naked scape 

 more or less sheathed by the leaves which spring from the bulb, flowers 

 in a terminal umbel, the buds enclosed in a membranous spathe, at 

 first undivided, then splitting into several valves. 



* Odules 2, side dy side in each cell. 



t Bulbs not arisimj from root-stocks. The inner three Ulaments tricusjjid, 



the cusps filiform or setaceous, the latercd sterile, the intermediate fertile. 



i.e., anther-bearing. 



X Outer tunics ofhulb not separated into fibres. 



§ Leaves flat, not holloic. 



I A. scorodoprasum, 3 ampeloprasum, 3 rotundum. 



§ § Leaves holloio. 



' 4 A. phanerantherum, 5 vineale, 6 sphosrocephalum, 7 descendens, 

 8 Makmclianum. 



I X Outer tunics of bulb at length separated into fibres. 



§ Leaves flat, not hollow, 



9 A. calyptratum, 10 Cilicicum. 



§ § Leaves holloic. 



II A. Sinaiticum, 13 Hierochuntinum, 13 curtum, 14 Karyeteini. 



1 1 Bulbs having a root-stocTc. Filaments all simple or fhe inner three' 

 rarely furnished with a toothlet at base. 



X Leaves hollow. 



15 A. Ccpa, 16 Ascalonicum, 17 Schergianum. 



X X Leaves not holloio. 



§ Lower 'part of scape sheathed with semiterete leaves. Valves of spathe 

 lanceolate, caudate, one at least usually longer than umbel. 



^ Tunics of bulb not separating into fibres. 



t Filaments a little longer than p)exigonium. 



18 A. stamineum. 



1 1 Filaments shorter than pjerigonium or of equal length. 



19 A. i^aniculatum, 20 chloranthum, 21 modestum, 22 montauum. 



^ II Outer tunics of bulb at length separated into fibres. 



23 A. Sindjarense, 24 desertorum. 



§§ Base {and sometimes the whole) of scape sheathed with flat leaves. Divisions 

 of perigonium more or less spreading. Spathe broad, short-caudate. Tu- 

 nics ofbidbs never fibrous or reticulate. 



