LILIACEZ. 1069 
Sometimes, when the flowers umbellate, spathe-like. Perianth 
herbaceous or petaloid, usually 6-merous in 2 series, rarely 4- or 8- 
or 10-merous, imbricate, rarely valvate in bud, inferior, free or 
ate; anthers oblong or linear, often dorsifixed; dehiscence 
longitudinal, rarely terminal and porous. Carpels 8, connate in a 
Superior, 3-celled ovary ; ovules 2 or more from inner angles of 
cells, anatropous or rarely atioeeabita: ; style resis! i 
often long, rarely short or 0, or styles 38. Fruit a caps 
berry, usually 3-celled, rarely 1-celled. Seeds 1 or more, Bi he 
or flattened ; albumen horny or fleshy ; embryo small, terete. 
Shrubs with perennial stems above pine fruit berry-like 
Stems leafless, slender, usually straggling; leaves rep by linear 
or acicular cladodes; flowers es fascicled, or racem 
paragus. 
Stems leafy :— 
eaves distinctly 3-5-nerved and reticulately ues disposed at 
intervals along the generally climbing stem ; flowers 
Smilax. 
Leaves closely, numerously parallel-nerved, mara clustered at the 
apex of a short o iebpei vigtses| erect caudex 
Rach cell of the ovary L-ovuled............scccesseseessseeseee na. 
ach cell of the oy 4- or more-ovuled .........ss0ceeee0 Cordyline. 
Herbs with annual stems or scapes, rising usually from perennial under- 
5 eae rootstocks, corms, or bulbs, rarely (Asphodelus) the plant wholly 
nnual ;— 
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t Pea cae Sint a creeping rootstock ; siceateail aerial stem dict ae 
leaves broad ; fruit a berr Disporum 
Perennial bets compact, not creeping ; fruit a loculicidal — 
ia Aerial annual stem climbing, leafy; leaves broad, with tendril- 
j like tips; perianth large, showy, its segments pore anenial 
ked Glori 
Aerial annual stems or scapes erect; leaves narrow; rootstock a 
globose, coated corm or bulb :— 
Perennial stem a solid corm covered with brown sheaths; 
annual stem sums with scattered linear or ensiform leaves ; 
flowers solitary or COryMDOSE ..-c1....cssseeeereeeeeees ig 
Perennial stem a tunicated bulb ; : eabeek scape simple naked ; 
eaves radical : 
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