786 LILIACE^. (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, 3-celled or by abortion 

 1-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. 



* Ovules 2, side &y side in eacli cell. 



t Bulbs not arising from root-stocls. The inner three -filaments tricusjnd, 



the cusps fiUform or setaceous, the lateral sterile, the intermediate fertile, 



i.e., anther-bearing. 



X Outer tunics of bulb not se^Mrated into fibres. 



§ Leaves flat, not hollow. 



I A. scorodoprasum, 3 ampeloprasum, 3 rotundum. 



§ § Leaves hollow. 



4 A. phanerantherum, 5 vineale, 6 sphcerocei^halum, 7 dcfccendens, 

 8 Makmelianum. 



% \ Outer tunics of bulb at length scjmrated into fibres. 



§ Leaves flat, not hollow. 



9 A. calyptratum, 10 Cilicicum. 



§ § Leaves holloio. 



II A. Sinaiticum, 12 Hierochuntinum, 13 curtum, 14 Karyeteiui. 



1 1 Bulbs having a root-stock. Filaments all simjAc or the inner three 

 rarely furnished with a toothlet at base. 



I Leaves holloxc. 



10 A. Ccpa, 16 Ascalonicum, 17 Schergianum. 



I X Leaves not hollow. 



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

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



1 Tunics of bulb not separating into fibres. 



+ Filaments a little longer than perigonium. 



18 A. stamineum. 



1 1 Filaments shorter titan per igonium or of equallengtli. 



19 A. paniculatum, 20 chloranthum, 21 modestum, 22 montanum. 



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



23 A. Sindjarense, 24 desertorum. 



§§ Base {and sometimes the zchole) of scape sheathed loith fat leaves. Divisions 

 ofperigonium more or less spreading. Sp)athe broad, short-caudate. Tu- 

 nics of bulbs never fibrous or reticulate. 



