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point is that, like the other Allieae, the plant under review 18 bracteate under the inflorescence. The 
Scillee, with which it agrees in the single character of a spicate inflorescence, and whose facies it does 
not recall, have no involving bract. The secondary question of the subordinate position of the genus 
presents a little difficulty. Of the already recognised subtribes it clearly approaches most nearly the 
Eualliee ; and, if it must be located in a known subgroup, it is among these that it can with the least 
amount of dislocation be placed. The question really turns on the relative value, for purposes of 
classification, of characters derived from the inflorescence and from the individual florets, Already the 
Eualliee include plants with a gamophyllous perianth and plants with 2-seriate filaments, so that the 
characters on which the generic rank of МИша largely depends favour the localisation of the genus in 
that subtribe. At the same time it must be recollected that, whether incidental or not, the characters 
of a spicate inflorescence and of a solitary bract are not shared by any other member of the АШеае, and 
it seems more natural as well as more convenient to treat Milula as typical of a new subtribe to be 
inserted among the АЙее immediately before the Euallieae.” D. Prain in Scientific Memoirs by the 
Medical Officers of the Army of India Part 9, 1895. 
pen 200. Milula spicata, Prain. 
Section of stem X 1. 
м Flower X 2. 
3. Perisnth laid open to show staminal insertion X 1. 
4. Stamen of outer series, from within and also sideways X 1. 
5. Stamen of inner series, from within and also sideways X 2, 
6. Ovary X i. 
7. Vertical section of ovary showing an ovule X +. 
8. Floral diagram, vertical. 
9. Floral diagram, horizontal. 
10. Кіре fruit, cut across X +. 
11. Ripe fruit, seeds fallen, showing dehiscence X +. 
12. Diagram showing dehiscence and position of seeds and of abortive ovules. 
13. Seed X 4. 
14. Vertical section of seed showing embryo X 4. 
Figs. 1—9 are taken from flowers belonging to the i i š : 5 
B Pudet سد یی چو یش مو‎ ging Specimen delineated ; figs. 10—14 from fruits of а second speci 
The specimen selected is the only one of the solitary gathering which shows two scapes; the others have put one. 
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