SCILLA.] LIL1ACEM. 263 



4. IPHIGENIA, Kunth. ; FL Brit, vi, 357. 



Herbs with small tunicate corms and erect leafy slender stems. 

 Leaves few, scattered, linear, the upper bract-like. Flowers small, 

 erect, solitary or corymbose. Perianth petaloid, 6-partite, stel- 

 lately spreading, deciduous ; segments equal, narrow, clawed. 

 Stamens 6, hypogynous ; filaments short, flat ; anthers oblong, 

 versatile, introrse. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; styles 3, shortly con- 

 nate below, linear, recuved, stigmatic within ; ovules many in 

 each cell. Fruit a loculicidal capsule. Seeds subglobose ; testa 

 thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small species 4, in India, Africa, 

 Australia and the Philippines. 



I. IndJoa. A. Gray in Kunth. Enum. iv 9 213 ; F. B. I. vi, 

 357 ; Watt E. D, ; Collett Fl Siml. 529 ; Prain Beng. PL 1074 ; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 766. 



Corm J-f in. in diam., narrowed into a short neck, tunicate with pale- 

 brown sheaths. Stems up to 10 in. high. Leaves sessile, alternate, 

 few, coriaceous, the lower ones 6-8 in. long, becoming smaller upwards, 

 all linear, sheathing at the base ; nerves obscure. Flowers appear- 

 ing before the leaves, purple, few or many, in a terminal erect raceme ; 

 pedicels J-l in. long ; bracts linear or subulate, the lower leaf -like. 

 Perianth-segments f in. long, narrow, clawed, spreading, at length 

 xeflexed. Stamens J in. long. Ovary oblong, about as long as sta- 

 mens. Capsule oblong or subovoid, f-f in. long, obtuse, 3-grooved. 

 Seeds *$ in. in diam., brown. 



Siwalik range (Duthie). DISTRIB. : Throughout India from the 

 N.-W. Frontier to Burma, ascending Himalaya up to 7,000 ft. and 

 to 4-5,000 ft. on Khasia hills ; also in Ceylon and extending to Aus- 

 tralia and the Philippines. 



5. SCILLA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 348. 



Herbs with tunicate bulbs. Leaves radical, linear, lorate or 

 oblong. Flowers racemose, on a simple leafless scape ; bracts 

 small. Perianth petaloid, persistent, stellate or campanulate ; 

 segments 6, subequal, often recurved. Stamens 6, adnate at or 

 near the base of the perianth- segments ; filaments usually filiform ; 

 anthers ovate or oblong, introrse. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules few in 

 each cell ; style filliform, stigma small, capitate. Fruit a globose 

 3-lobed loculicidal capsule ; cells 1-2-seeded. Seeds obovoid or 

 subglobose ; testa thin, black ; embryo shorter than the firm 

 albumen. Species about 80, in Europe and Temp. Asia. 



