782 LIHACE^. (LILY FAMILY.) 



Tribe in. AliBIEiE. (O.vion Tribe.) Bulbous plants with scapes. Divisions ot 

 perigonium free. Style arising from base of ovary, received into it? central tube, then free, 

 ^eeds globular or angled. 

 5. ALLIUM. Perennial herbs with alliaceous odor and umbelled tlowers. 



Tribe IV. SCILIiEiE. (Squill Tribe). Bulbous plants, with a raceme or .spike of 

 flowers borne on a simple, leafless scape. Bracts under each flower herbaceous or scarious, 

 never forming an involucre. 



0. 1)IP(\\T)I. Perigonium tubular-funnel-sliaped, the outer lobes falcate. Ovules numerous 

 in each cell, flattened. 



7. T'TJGINEA. Perigonium spreadinsr, of distinct divisions. Ovules numerous in eacii cell, 



flattened. 



8. MUSCAPI. Perigonium more or less constricted below mouth. Seeds 2 in eacli cell, 



not caruncled. 

 U. HYACTNTIIUS. Perigonium not ronstricted. Seeds G-8 in each cell, fuinislied with a 

 tumid caruncle. 



10. BELLEVALIA. Perigonium not constricted. Seeds two in each cell, not caruncled. 



11. PUSCHKINIA. Perigonium nearly 6-parted, furnished with a 6-cleft crown. Flowers 



blue. 

 13. SCILLA. Perigonium nearly G-parted, destitute of crown. Flowers lilac, purple, pink, 

 or blue, 



13, OPXITIIOOALUM. Perigonium nearly 6-parted, destitute of crown. Flowers white, 



rarely cream-colored, or tawny, divisions green-banded. 

 Tribe V. lilltlEJE, (Lily Tribe.) Bulbous, caulescent plants. Divisions of 

 perigonium free. Style terminal. Seeds (except in Gagea) compressed, discoid. 



14. LILTUM. Perigonium funnel-shaped, (in ours) white. Divisions with a iioctarilcrous 



groove at claw. 

 15 FltlTlLLAPJA. Perigonium campanulate, divisions with a nectariferous pore at base. 



16. TULIPA. Perigonium campanulate, divisions often with a spot at base, but no pore. 



17. GAGEA. Perigonium funnel-sbaped, divisions yellow, or green with yellow margins. 



Nectary 0, 



18. LLOYDTA. Perigonium funnel-shaped, divisions (in ours) grcenish-whito, with pink 



tips. Nectary (in ours) 0. 



Tribe VI. COIiCHICEiE, (Colchicum Tribe). Corinous or rhi/.omatous. stem- 

 less plants. Perigonium 6-cleft or -parted. Styles free or more or less united. 



19. COLCHICUM. Perigonium with a long tube, 6-cleft, without nectary at base of divisions. 

 QO. .MEPENDEP.\. Perigonium destitute of tube, 6-paitcd, the lamina grooved below to 



receive the filament. 



•21. KKVTIIROSTJCTUS. Perigonium destitute of tube, 6-parted, with 1 -'2, nectariferous 

 l>oints at insertion of filament 



1. AI^OE, L. Aloe. Hobr. 



Perigonium tubular, cylindrical, straight or somewhat curved, 

 rcr^ular, nectariferou.s at bottom, G-clcft into elongated lobes. Stamens 

 ('), hypogynous, erect, adherent to base of perigonium. Antliers introrsc, 

 fastened at back, above base. Ovary sessile, :J-celled, with numerous 

 ovules in each cell. Style slender, stigma simple. Capsule n-cclled. 



