31g LiLiACE^ Asphodelus, 



rico-trigona valvis transverse sulcatis, seminibus caesiis dorso trans- 

 verse sulcalis ad latera Isevibus O- A. refractus Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 

 I, 13, p. 33. 



Hab. in arenosis vallis Ouadi Mokatteb Arabiae petrese (Boiss !). 



Folia 3-4 pollices longa, scapi 1-1 V» pedales, pedicelli fructiferi 4-5 lineas 

 longi, perigoiiium vix 2 lineas longum. 



Ar. Geogr. Algeriai interioris deserta. 



ASPHODELINE (Rchb. FI. Germ. exe. H6). 



Perigonium patens phyHis sex uninerviis basi in urceolum brevem 

 connatis inlimo a reliquis magis distante angusliore et basi longius 

 attenuato. Filamenta basi dilalala concava ovarium amplectentia dein 

 filiformia declinalo-ascendenlia, exteriora ScCpissime mullo breviora. 

 Anlherae staminum interiorum longiorum mullo majores elliplico- 

 lineares dorso medio affixfe, staminum exteriorum ovalse minutae 

 (steriles?) basi ad Glamenti insertionem ssepe slrumosse. Ovarium 

 triloculare ovulis in loculo geminis collateralibus, slylus filiformis, 

 sligma subcapilatum. Capsula (sicca) coriacea. Semina acule triquetra 

 dorso transverse sulcata. — Herbae radice fibris fasciculatis cylindri- 

 cis constante, caule vel aphyllo vel partim vel toto folioso in race- 

 mum vel paniculam abeunte, pedicellis arliculatis. 



* Perigonium luteum. 



1. A. lutea (L. Sp. 443 sub Asphodelo) radice fibras multas 

 elongalas tenuiler cylindricas edente, caule robusto tola longitudinc 

 dense folioso in racemum simplicem longum densitlorum abeunte, 

 foliis slrictis subulatis triquetris IfEvibus basi in vaginam dilalatis 

 superne serisim abbreviatis, bracieis ovatis cuspidalis pedicellos 

 superantibus, pedicellis ereclis infra medium articulalis, perigonii 

 lutei virenti-vittati phyllis oblongo-lanceolatis, filamentis valde inee- 

 qualibus externis fere duplo brevioribus, capsula globosa magna val- 

 vulis irregulariter et grosse rugosis %. Asphadeline lutea^Rchh. Ic. 

 Germ. fig. tl!21. 



Hab. in rupestribus montanis, Attica in Hymetto (Boiss ! Heldr !j, Pentelico 

 et Parnes (Heldr!), Parnasso (Siblh.), Ardiipelago (Wied !), Macedonia,. 

 Thracia et Bithyma (Griseb! Thirke !), Mysia et PhrygiA (Tchih.), Cari^ 

 (Pinardl), Syria et Libano (Postl), Taurid et prov. Gaucasicis (Stev. M. B.) 



Ar. Geogr. Italia, littorale Austriacum, Dalmatia, Algeria in Atlante. 



2. A. Liburnica (Scop. Garn. I, 245, tab. 12 sub Asphodelo) 

 radice fibras cylindricas crassiusculas sensim atteniialas edente, 

 caule erecto ad tertiam vel dimidiam partem usque folialo superne 

 nudo, follis tenuiter filiformibus 'subulato-attenuatis triquetris raar- 

 gine scabris, raccmo simplici vel basi parce ramoso laxiusculo, brac- 



