CXXXIII. LILIACE.E. 395 



Small, bulbous, scapigerous plants. Leaves 2-4, linear, fleshy, girt at 

 base, together with the scape, by a truncate, hyaline sheath. Scape short, 

 few-flowered ; flowers corymbose, erect, pedicellate, rosy-purple.— 3 species, 

 of which P. corymbosa {HyacinUms corymbosus, Linn.) abounds at Green 

 Point in March. 



5. POLYXENA, Kth. 



Peri.intli tubiilar-funnelsbaped ; tube very lone:, narrow, in 

 fruit cut round at base and deciduous ; limb regular of G revo- 

 lute, spatbulate-oblong, 1-nerved, nearly equal segments, tbe 

 outer somewbat keeled. Stamens at tbe summit of tlie tube, 

 sborter tban tbe periantb-lobes ; filaments filiform. Ovary 

 sessile; ovules about 6 in eacb cell ; style filiform, elongate, 

 erect. Capsule membranous, roundisb. Seeds 1-2 in eacb 

 cell, obliquely-elliptical, brownisb. — Kunth, I. c. p. 294). 



A smaU, bulbous plant. Leaves 2, lanceolate-oblong. Flowers pale 

 purple, in a loose corymb between the leaves.— 1 species, from the W eatem 

 districts. 



6. MASSONIA, Tbunb. 



Periantb salver-sbaped, persistent; tube cylindrical, straight; 

 limb 6-parted, segments 1-nerved, equal, widely spreading or 

 reflexed, more or less sborter tban tbe tube. Stamens in tbe 

 throat, longer tban tbe limb, erect; filaments dilated at base. 

 Ovary sessile; ovules numerous, rarely few; style filiform, 

 very long, erect. Capsule membranous, 3 -angled. Seeds sub- 

 globose, black, slnmng.—Kimth, I c. p. 295. 



Bulbous plants. Leaves 2, often appressed to the soil, somewhat fleshy, 

 mostly broad, nerve- striate, sometimes hairy. Scape very short ; flowers 

 corymbose ; outer bracts often very broad.— Several species. 



7. DAUBENYA, Lindl. 



Flowers di-poly-morpbous ; inner or upper flowers tubular, 

 witb a very sbort, subequally 6-parted, spreading limb ; medial 

 flowers more or less irregular ; peripheric or lowest flowers 

 very unequally 2-labiate, the upper lip of 3 small, acute seg- 

 ments ; the lower very large, deeply 3-parted, the lobes oblong, 

 obtuse. Stamens 6, at tbe base of the segments o± the 

 perianth, unequal ; filaments subulate, dilated at base ; anthers 

 versatile. Ovary sessile, 3-angled, tapering into a style; 

 ovules 0-10 in each cell— Xunth, I. c. p. 300 ; Lindl. Bot. Beg. 

 t. 1813, and 1839. t. 53. 



Bulbous, 2-leaved plants, with the habit of Massonia, from which this 

 genus chiefly differs by the very unequal-limbed, radiatmg outer flowers ot 

 the capitate, subsessile corvmb ; the imu-rmosl flowers are nearly as regular 

 as those of Massonia. Flowers yellow or crimsou.-2 or 3 species; very 

 handsome. 



