156 ENGLISn BOTANY. 



ORDER LXXXIL— AMARYLLIDACEiE. 



Perennial herbs, not scurfy or woolly, with the leaves all radical 

 and with radical scapes, or rarely in a few exotic species with a 

 perennial leafy stem. Rootstock generally a tunicated bulb, more 

 rarely creeping. Leaves simple, entire, sheathing at the base, gene- 

 rally linear-lorate, parallel-veined. Flowers perfect, solitary or um- 

 bellate, on a leafless scape, rarely spicate, racemose or paniculate. 

 Perianth regular, or rarely irregular, with a tube united to the 

 ovary and often produced above it ; limb of 6 leaves, free or slightly 

 miited, usually all similar and petaloid, sometimes with a crown 

 within it either free from the stamens and exterior to them, or 

 combined with the stamens, in which case it is sometimes 6-partite 

 or of six separate lobes. Stamens 6, very rarely 12 or 18, in- 

 serted on an epigynous disk, or in the tube of the perianth and 

 opposite its lobes ; anthers 2-celled, affixed by the base or the middle 

 of the back, introrse, opening longitudinally or at the apex. Ovary 

 inferior, united with the perianth tube or with its base, S-celled, 

 rarely only imperfectly so: ovules numerous or definite, inserted 

 in the inner angle of the cells or (in the 1-celled ovary) on parietal 

 placenta?, anatropous or semianatropous ; style single ; stigma un- 

 di^dded or 3-lobed, rarely 3-cleft. Fruit generally capsular, rarely 

 berry-like, loculicidally 3-valved or more rarely indehiscent. Seeds 

 with the testa of various consistence ; albumen fleshy or horny ; embryo 

 straight or nearly so, the radicle pointing towards the hilum, or very 

 rarely away from it. 



Tribe L— NARCISSEiE. 



Perianth with a crown or petaloid tube in the throat ; crown free or 

 adherinfif to the stamens. 



GENUS /.-NARCISSUS. Linn. 



Perianth coloured, petaloid, regular; tube prolonged beyond the 

 ovary, the free portion cyHndrical, straight ; limb of C ovate or oblong 

 or lanceolate segments, which are free to the base, all similar, sjireading 

 or ascending, the three inner as long as the outer, but usually narrower. 

 Crown monophyllous, cylindrical or funnelshaped or saucershaped or 

 rotate, usually crenate at the margin, as long as or shorter than the 



