436 LILY FAMILY. 



■»- ■»- Flowers paniculate on a someivhat branching scape. 



41. HEMEROCALLIS. Perianth yellow, lasting but a day, funnel-form, with short narrow 



tube closely investing the ovary ; the nearly similar divisions more or less spreading. 

 Pod thick, at first fleshy. Seeds few in each cell, roundish, with a hard and brittle 

 black coat. Leaves linear, grassy and soft, keeled. 



42. PHORMIUM. Perianth lurid or yellowish, with a short incurved tube, the 3 exterior 



segments lanceolate and erect, the 3 interior slender and slightly spreading at the 

 tips. Stamens exserted. Ovules numerous in each cell. Capsule 3-angled. Rhi- 

 zome short, not fleshy. Leaves radical, long-linear-ensiform, stiff and evergreen, 

 strongly keeled. Panicle long, with short secund branches. 



jt- -1- -H Flowers in a dense spike. 



48. KNIPHOFIA. Flowers very many, reflexed in a dense spike on a bracted scape. 

 Perianth tubular, regular, red or yellow, 6-toothed. Stamens and style straight, pro- 

 truding from the tubular perianth. Filaments of two lengths. Pod many-seeded. 

 Leaves narrow-linear, long and grassy, keeled, crowded at the root. 



-f- ^- 4- -t- Flowers in racemes, which are mostly simple. 



++ Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, netted-veitied between the ribs, and on long petioles. 



44. FUNKL\. Flowers in a raceme, blue or white. Perianth funnel-form, 6-cleft, the 



lobes hardly spreading, somewhat irregular. Pod oblong, prismatic, many-seeded. 

 Seeds flat, black, with a soft and thin coat, winged at the apex. 



++ ++ Leaves narrow, mostly linear. 



45. ASPHODELFS. Perianth segments distinct or nearly so, white with a yellowish line 



in the center. Stamens hypogynous, shorter than the segments, erect or slightly 

 declined, the filaments dilated at the base and covering the ovary. Ovules 2 in each 

 cell. Capsule obscurely 8-angled. Rhizome small, sometimes annual. Leaves linear, 

 strap-shaped or fistulose. 



46. SCHa<;NOLIRION. Perianth white or yellow, withering-persistent, the segments dis- 



tinct and 3-5-nerved. Stamens hypogynous, shorter than the segments, the filaments 

 filiform. Ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule short and truncate, 3-angled. Rhizome 

 tuberous. Leaves long-linear. 



47. PARADISEA. Perianth funnel-form, the segments distinct and erect-spreading, nar- 



row at the base, the upper portion oblong-spatulate and 3-nerved. Stamens hypo- 

 gynous and declined, scarcely shorter than the perianth, the filaments filiform. 

 Ovules many in each cell. Capsule ovoid and coriaceous. Rhiaome very short. 



» » » Stem a woody trunk, either short or tree-like, bearing a crown of sword shaped, 



fleshy or thin leaves ; no bulb. 



■I- Leaves short, very thick and fleshy, 2-ranked, crowded on the very short stem, at the 



base of the scape. 



48. ALOE. Flowers racemed on a slender bracted scape. Perianth tube straight or slightly 



curved, the seg^ments elongated. Stamens hypogynous, equaling or exceeding the 

 perianth. Seeds many, 3-angIed. 



■I- -I- Leaves long, often stiff and sliarp-edged, mostly many-ranked, either clustered 

 near the ground or borne upon the short trunk. 



49. YUCCA. Flowers in an ample terminal compound panicle, large, often polygamous, 



white or whitish. Perianth of 6 separate oval or oblong acute divisions, not decid- 

 uous, the 3 inner broader, longer than the stamens. Stigmas 3, sessile. Pod oblong, 

 many-seeded ; the depressed seeds as in Lily. 



50. CORDYLINE. Stem woody, often eventually rising .several feet hi^. Leaves mostly 



at the top of the stem, firm, mostly about lanceolate. Perianth cylindraceous or 

 narrowly bell-form, the tube short. Ovules many in each cell. Fruit fleshy, small 

 and nearly gloljular, mostly indehiscent. Flowers small in a large panicle. 



