42 DRACAENACEAE. 



shorter than the sepals: beak of the capsule exceeding the perianth. Ham- 

 mocks and low pinelands. 



FAMILY 2. LILIACEAE. LILY FAMILY. 



Perennial mainly caulescent herbs. Leaves alternate to whorled, 

 sometimes all basal: blades entire or essentially so. Flowers solitary or 

 variously clustered. Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals, together with 

 the sepals sometimes partially united into a tube. Androecium of 6 

 stamens, the anthers usually distinct. Gynoecium of 3 united carpels. 

 Fruit a loculicidal capsule. 



1. OXYTRIA Raf. Scapose rather wiry herbs, with bulb-like conns. 

 Leaf-blades elongate and very narrow. Raceme or panicle with short bracts. 

 Sepals, and petals, white or yellow, distinct. 



1. O. albiflora (Raf.) Pollard. Leaf -blades 2-6 mm. wide: scapes 4-6.5 dm. 

 tall: racemes branched: sepals and petals white, 5-6 mm. long: capsules 5-6 

 mm. wide. Everglades and low pinelands. 



FAMILY 3. OONVALLARIACEAE. LJLY-OP-THE-VALLEY FAMILY. 



Perennial herbs with rootstocks. Leaves alternate, sometimes all basal. 

 Flowers in a terminal cluster, raceme, or panicle, or axillary. Calyx of 2 

 or 3 sepals. Corolla of 2 or 3 petals, together with the sepals sometimes 

 partially united. Androecium of 4 or 6 stamens. Gynoecium of 2 or 3 

 united carpels. Fruit a berry or rarely a tardily dehiscent capsule. 



1. SANSEVIEEIA Thunb. Succulent herbs with stout rootstocks. 

 laMTcm erect, flat or nearly terete. Flowers in narrow panicles, erect or 

 ascending. Perianth white or greenish: lobes narrow, about as long as the 

 cylindric tube. Capsule membranous. Seeds baccate. 



1. 8. guineenais Willd. Leaves 4-10 dm. tall, mottled : panicle many-flowered : 

 perianth-lobes linear or linear-spatulate, 14-18 mm. long, curled back. 

 Pinelands and cultivated grounds. Nat. of Africa, and cultivated. !'. K 

 (Ber., Bah., Cuba, Ant.) AFRICAN BOWSTRINO-HEMP. 



FAMILY 4. DRACAENACEAE. YUCCA FAMILY. 



Shrubby plants or trees, with woody generally copiously leafy caudices. 

 Leaves alternate: blades narrow, firm or rigid, sometimes filiferous. 

 Flowers in racemes or panicles terminating scape-like ston.-. r.-ilyx of 3 

 generally white or pale sepals. Corolla of 3 petals nearly like the sepals. 

 Androecium of 6 stamens. Gynoecium superior, of 3 united cnrjuN. 

 Style stout, sometime* obsolete during anthesis. Fruit a primarily locu- 

 licidal capsule, sometimes indebiscent or baccate. 



1. YUCCA [Knj.p.] L. Caudex commonly leafy throughout. Flowers 

 perfect, relatively large, in panicle* or racemes. Sepals and petals several 

 nerved, deciduous. Capsule dehiscent or baccate. SPANISH-BAYONET. 



Fruit a drooping pulpy IndehUcent terry-like capaole. 1 Y. alolfolla. 



Fruit an erect dry dehiscent capsule. 2. Y. ftlamrntoia. 



1. Y. aloifolia L. Caudez often 1-2.5 m. tall, commonly branched: leaves 

 very numerous, spreading above, deflexed and deciduous below, scabrous- 



