Thysanotus.'] liliace.f. 373 



N. Australia, in foliage, inflorescence, flowers, and fruit, to be geuericall)' bcparatcd on ac- 

 count of the want of the fringe to the petals. 



6. ANTHERICUM, Linn. 



(Phalangium, Jkss., and Chlorophytum, Ker.) 



Periauth-segments 6, spreading-, nearly equal, persistent. Stamens 6, in- 

 serted at their base ; filaments filiform, not liairy ; anthers versatile. Ovary 

 3-celled, with 3 or more ovules in each cell. Style filiform ; stigma entire. 

 Capsule 3-valved, usually prominently 3-angled or 3-lobed. Seeds few, black. 

 • — Khizome short, thick, with fasciculate roots. Leaves radical or nearly so, 

 linear. Flowering stems leafless, erect, often branched. Flowers white or 

 greenish, solitary or clustered. 



A small genus widely dispersed over both the New and the Old World. 

 1. A, parviflorum, Benth. Leaves distichous as in Iridecs, crowded 

 in a flat tuft, linear, falcate or ciu'ved, 4 to 8 in. long. Scapes arising from 

 amongst the leaves, usually shorter than them, slender but still", with 1 to 3 

 branches. Flowers distant, soKtary or 2 together under each bract, on slender 

 pedicels of 1 to 2 lines, at first erect, then recurved. Perianth about 1 line 

 long. Ovules 2 in each cell of the ovaiy. Capsule near 2 lines long and 3 

 broad, with 3 acute angles or lobes. — Phalangium parviforum, Wight, Ic. t. 

 2039. Ph.falcatum, AVaU. CataL n. 5057. 



Hongkong, Hance, Wright. In Ceylon and the Indian peninsula, and in Borneo. This 

 species has more the characters of Chlorophyton than of Fhalanf/ii(m, but the two appear to 

 me to run too much into one another to remain separate; and if the old Linufcan name Anthe- 

 ricum be not retained for the group so fonned, it becomes entirely suppressed. The few 

 species retained by Kunth under that name are all doubtful, and none of them Linnscan. 



7. SCILLA, Linn. 

 (Barnardia, Lindl., and Ledebouria, Roth.) 



Perianth-segments 6, nearly equal, free or nearly so, spreading or forming 

 a bell-shaped or tubular flower. Stamens 6, inserted below the middle or at 

 the base of the segments. Ovary with 1, 2, or several ondes in eacii cell. 

 Stigma entire or nearly so. Seeds few, black, oblong or globular. — Ikdbous 

 herbs. Leaves radical, parallel-veined. Flowers pink or blue, in a simple 

 raceme on a leafless scape. 



A considerable genus, ranging over the northern hemisphere in the Old World, with a few 

 species from western S. America. 



1. S. chinensis, Benth. Leaves naiTOw-linear, fi to 8 in. long. Scape 

 1 to li ft. high. Flowers small, pink, in a raceme of 1| to 3 in. l^racts 

 small, linear. Pedicels 1 to 3 lines long. Perianth-segments oblong, s})read- 

 ing, 1 to 1^ lines long. Filaments flattened at the base, tai)ering to a point. 

 Ovary nearly globular, with 1 ascending ovule in each cell. — Barnardia scil- 

 loides, Lindi. Bot. Reg. t. 1029 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3788. 



At Chuckchew, Champion. On the adjacent continent, and a somewhat broader-leaved 

 variety in Loochoo. The htibit and essential characters are entirely those of the uniovulate 

 *S' iiarciflora, Desf., from Algeria, or of the biovulate S. autimnalis, L., from the Mcdilcr- 

 rauean region ; both of them pink-flowered. Other biovulate species (including L-dffiouria 

 hyacinthina, Roth ; Wight, Ic. t. 2040, which appears to be the same as Barnardia indica' 



