374 LiLiACEiE. [Scilla. 



Wio-ht, Tc. t. 2041) have blue flowers, and pass gradually into the more commou several- 

 oviilate species. Hooker and Arnott referred Orniiliogalatn sinense. Lour., to the 6'. chiuensis, 

 hut it is surely different, if correctly described as having the perianth- segments not divided 

 to the base and the bracts spathaeeous. 



8. LILIUM, Linn. 



Periantli-seo-ments <listinct, narrowed and erect at the base, spreading or 

 recniTed at tlie top. Stamens 6, inserted at their base. Anthers linear. 

 Ovary 3-celled, with numerous horizontal ovides. Style elongated ; stigma 

 3-angled or 3-lobed. Capsule 3-valved. Seeds horizontal, winged. — Tall 

 herbs, with scaly bulbs and simple leafy stems. Mowers few, large, terminal. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over the teuiperate regions of the northern hemisphere or 

 the mountainous districts of tropical Asia. 



1. Li. longiflorum, Tlumh. ; Knntli, Envm. iv. 266; Bot. Beg. t. 560. 

 Steins 2 ft. high or more. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2 to 3 in. long ; the upper 

 ones smaller. Flowers white, solitaiy, or 2 or 3 on short pedicels, nodding, 

 full 5 in. long, narrow-eampanulate and much contracted below the middle. 



On the sides of hills amongst grass. Champion, Hance, and on the Chinese continent. 



Order CXVIL PONTEDEHACE^. 



Flowers usually in-egidar, hermaphrodite. Perianth inferior, petal-like, of 

 6 segments or lobes, in 2 series. Stamens 6 or 3, often dissimilar. Ovaiy 

 3-celled or with 3 projecting parietal placentas, with 1 or more ovules to each 

 cell or placenta. Style single, with a 3-lobed or 6-toothed stigma. Fruit 

 capsular, superior, but sometimes enclosed in the persistent tube of the peri- 

 anth. Seeds albuminous, Avith a slender embryo. — Aquatic herbs. Leaves 

 usually petiolate, parallel-veined. Flowers usually blue or wdiite, in spikes 

 or racemes proceeding from the sheath of the last leaf (or sometimes of the 

 only leaf of the scape), usually with 1 or 2 sheathing bracts at the base of the 

 peduncle. 



A small Order, dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe, or in N. 

 America extending into more temperate districts. 



1. MONOCHOBIA, Presl. 



Perianth nearly regular, divided to the base into 6 spreading segments. 

 Stamens 6, unequal, 1 usually larger, with a small tooth or spur on the fila- 

 ment. OWes numerous in each cell of the ovary. Capsule free, 3-valved, 

 many-seeded. — Leaves radical, on long petioles. Scapes with 1 petiolate leaf, 

 the short raceme in its axil appearing to proceed from the middle of the pe- 

 tiole. Flowers few. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



Leaves ovate-cordate. Flowers 6 to 12 1. M. vaginalis. 



Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 1 to 3 2. M. plantaginea. 



1. M. vaginalis, Pri-^Z; A""ww^//,^/^?<;;^iv. 134. Leaves and scapes form- 

 ing dense tufts from a creeping rhizome. Petioles long, hollow, sheathing at the 

 base. Leaves cordate, acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to near 2 in" broad. 



