Liliacers.] liliace.t:. 360 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Leafy stem sim])le or none. 

 Stock not bulbous. Stem leafy at the base only. 

 Fruit a berry. (Flowers pale-blue or greenish.) 



Flowers in a raceme. Filaments slender 3. Ophiopogox. 



Flowers paniculate. Filaments thickened under the anther . . 4. Dianella. 

 Fruit a ca])sule. 



Flowers blue, in a terminal umbel. Inner segments very thin 



aud involute ou the edges 5. Ti£YSanotus. 



Flowers small, white, distant in a raceme or panicle. Cai)sule 



acutely angled or 3-lobed G. Antfiericum. 



Stock bulbous. 



Leaves and scape radical. Flowers small, racemose 7. Scilla. 



Stem leafy. Flowers 1 or few, very large 8. Lilum. 



I. SMIL AX, Linn. 



(Coprosmanthus, Kiiuth.) 



Flowers dioecious. Perianth of 6 spreading- segments, all equal, or the 

 3 outer larger, or the 3 outer united, and the 3 inner wanting. ISIale flower.s : 

 Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the segments, or rarely 3, free or nionadcl- 

 phous. Female flowers : Stamens rudimentary. Ovary 3-celled, with 1 or 2 

 erect ovules in each cell. Stigmas 3, sessile, distinct, or shortly united. Fmit 

 a globular berry. Embryo minute, remote from the hilum. — Climbers. Leaves 

 with digitate nerves and reticulate veins, usually coriaceous and shining ; the 

 petioles usually bearing 2 simple tendrils, and oi'ten winged below tlie tendrils. 

 Flowers small, usually white, in sessile or peduncidate axiUary umbels, often 

 forming terminal panicles. 



A large genus, dispersed over the tropical and temperate regions of the globe. 



Perianth-segments 6, in 2 series. Stamens 6, free. 



Leaves glaucous or white underneath. Filaments shorter than 

 the anthers. 

 Outer perianth-segments broadly obcordate. Female umbels 



many-flowered. Leaves acuminate L S. glabra. 



Outer perianth-segments ovate. Female umbels few-flowered. 



Leaves not acuminate 2. S. hypoglauca. 



Leaves green on both sides. Filaments longer than the anthers. 



Umbels solitary, in the axils of full-grown leaves .... 3. .S. lancecpfolia. 

 Umbels solitary, in the axil of the lowest leaf of the young 



shoots . . ' 4. -S'. ferox. 



Umbels in axillary panicles. I<eaves large 5. 5. ovalifoUa. 



Perianth oblong, 3-toothed. Stamens 3, monadelphous ....&. S. Gavdichandiana. 



1. S. glabra, Uoxh. FL hid. iii. 792; Knntli, Enum. v. 162; Seem. 

 Bot. Her. t. 100. Unarmed. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 4 in. long, 

 coriaceous, green and shining above, 3- or 5-nerved, glaucous or white under- 

 neath, the old ones rarely green on both sides. Umbels axillary, solitary, 

 sessile or shortly peduncuhite, without scales at the base of the peduncle. 

 Flowers numerous both in the males and females. Buds 3-lobed ; the outer 

 segments being short, thick, fleshy, very broadly obcordate, concave in tlie 

 centre ; the inner segments very much smaller, orbicular. Anthers short, 

 sessile or nearly so. 



Hongkong, Hinds, Champion, Ilance. Also in Khasia. 



2. S. hypoglauca, Benth., n. sp. Unarmed. Leaves oblong or lan- 



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