Furerea.] AMARYLLIDACE A. 1057 
Rootstock tuberous ; leaves strongly nerved, flat or plicate ; flowers 
spicate or racemose, very rarely subumbellate ; perianth yellow, not 
showy :— 
Fruit opening at the top as a circumscissile or 3-valved capsule ; 
ovary not produced above the crown into a stipe supporting the 
perianth ... Hypoxis. 
Fruit ‘eiletacuad often the ovary produced into a feo between 
the crown and the base of the perianth-lobes .......e..0+-+- uligo. 
Rootstock a tunicated bulb; leaves not strongly nerved, a giannis 
thinly fleshy ; flowers at the apex of a scape, usually umbellate, occa- 
ce nly oe perianth white or pink, not yellow, large and 
showy 
Filaments on to perianth-lobes but not connate : -- 
Sea ered 
ae jOrinum 
Filaments united towards their base by an eee dig 
membrane 
- 950. Agave Linn. 
Shrubby herbs, with a tasty short, woody stock ; leaves large, 
| thick and fleshy, densely clustered at the top of a rootstock or 
ee simple stem ; > wit, spiny tip, and us sually spinous- serrate 
edges. 
¥ 
| _ bases ; anthers dorsifixed. Car arpels 3, connate in a globose, ane 
or oblong, often fleshy ovary, more or less beaked above, 3-loc 
below the beak - : ovules many, 2-seriate in each loculus ; ake 
pW 
Seeds Many, flattened obliquely, ie pen black. Fruit 
Sometimes replaced by viviparous bulbils. : 
2184. Agave Cantona ern F. I. ii, 167. A. americana 
In most of the provinces, as a hedge near 
A large, tufted, fleshy-leaved, almost stemless eae 
leaves with spinous tips and edges. Vernac. Kantala. 
4. 
95 Vent. 
Shrubby herbs, with a short or occasionally tall, woody stock ; 
