436 LILY FAMILY. 



+- +- Flowers paniculatf 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 8-angled. Khi- 

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

 strongly keeled. Panicle long, with short secund branches. 



*-*-+- 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. 



++-*-+- Flowers in racemes, which are mostly simple. 

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



44. FUNKIA. 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. 



H- +4 Leaves narrow, mostly linear. 



45. ASPHODELUS. 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 3-angled. Khizome small, sometimes annual. Leaves linear, 

 strap-shaped or fistulose. 



46. SCHCENOLIRION. 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. Rhizome very short. 



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

 fleshy or thin leaves ; no bulb. \ 



+- 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 segments elongated. Stamens hypogynous, equaling or exceeding the 

 perianth. Seeds many, 8-angled. 



-i- i- Leaves long, often stiff and sharp-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. 



60. CORDYLINE. Stem woody, often eventually rising several feet high. 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 globular, mostly indehiscent. Flowers small in a large panicle. 



