39Ji CXXXIII. LILIACE.E. 



Tribe 1. Htaces-titej^. (G-en. 1-15.) 



1. VELTHEIMIA, Olcd. 



Perianth tubular-subclavate, deciduous ; limb 6-parted, re- 

 gular ; the lobes short, 1-nerved, suberect. Stamens attached 

 to the middle of the perianth-tube, subequal, the longer 

 scarcely exsertcd. Ovary sessile, oblong, 3-celled, tapering 

 into a style ; ovules 2-3 in each cell ; style declinate-ascend- 

 ing, filiform, exserted ; stigma shortly 3-lobed. Capsule dry- 

 membranous, obovate, sharply 3-angle-winged, loculicidal. 

 Seeds black, rugose. — Kunth, Enmn. iv. p. 281. 



Bulbous plants, with lanceolate-oblong, undulate, many-nerved leaves. 

 Raceme densely many-flowered ; tlie flowers shortly pediceUed, pendulous, 

 purplish-red ; pedicels 2-braeteate at base. — 2 or 3 species, 



2. LACHENALIA, Jacq. 



Perianth campanulate or tubular, persistent ; tube short or 

 very short ; limb deeply 6-parted in 2 rows, segments lying 

 close, the outer gibbous dorsally under the apex, the inner 

 longer, narrowed below, recurved at the apex. Stamens at- 

 tached to the bases of the perianth-segments, often exserted. 

 Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; ovules many or few ; style filiform, 

 erect, equalling or exceeding the stamens ; stigma obtuse. 

 Capsule membranous, 3-cornered, 3-celled. Seeds globose, 

 black. — Kunth, I. c. p. 283. 



Bulbous, scapigerous plants. Leaves 1-2- rarely more-nerved, somewhat 

 fleshy. Kacemes lax or dense ; flowers pedicellate or subsessile, ceruuous, 

 pendulous or suberect, yellow red greenish or whitish. — 35 species, many 

 worthy of cultivation. 



3. CCELAWTHUS, Willd. 



Perianth amply tubular-clavate, persistent ; tube campanu- 

 late, saccate-spurred at base, the spur adnate to a short pedi- 

 cel. — Other characters as in Lachenalia. — Kunth, I. c.p. 282. 



C. complicatus, Willd., is the only species. — Flowers yellow. 



4. PERIBCEA, Kth. 



Perianth somewhat funnel-shaped, 6-cleft to the middle, 

 regular, in fruit cut round the base and deciduous ; the tube 

 furnished on the inside above the base with 6 half moon-shaped 

 plaits ; segments spathulate-oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved, recurved 

 at tip, the outer somewhat keeled. Stamens at the apex of 

 the tube, the 3 inner longer, all shorter than the perianth. 

 Ovary sessile, ovate, 3-celled ; ovules 6 in each cell ; style fili- 

 form, as long as stamens. Capsule membranous; cells 1-2- 

 seeded. Seeds brown, obliquely elliptical. — Kunth, I. c. p. 292. 



