1070 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Asparagus. 
Flowers racemose on the scape, not surrounded by an invo- 
luere of 
Seeds cylin neo secline 
enclosed in a pate. kb scenes of membranous bracts 
Allium. 
*Underground perennial stem very small or ramen’ sometimes) 
none; root-fibres large, numerous, usually s oes or 
tuberous; leaves radical; fruit a loculicidal peer ee 
Flowers small ; Lf same init s distinct ; ovules 
E cell of the ovary ge capsule Spano leaves 
phod 
semiterete ; _ often wholly annual ..............6 elus. 
Each cell of the ovary 4- or more- eeu, a ci deeply ete 
the lobes fi ate leaves flat 
Flowers very large, showy; perianth funnel-shaped ; each cell of 
the ovary many-ovuled ; capsule triquetrous ; leaves linear 
Hemerocallis. 
960. Asparagus Linn. 
Undershrubs; stems erect, stra erin or oS terete, 
grooved, or angled; rootstock stout, creeping; leaves minute, 
seale-like, with tufts of needle-like or skated poses cladodes. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely 1-sexual, small or minute, axillary, 
solitary, fascicled or racemose, pendulous; pedicels jointed ; bracts 
minute or obsolete. Perianth petaloid, 6-partite, campanulate. 
Stamens 6, adnate to base of perianth-lobes; filaments free; 
anthers oblong. Carpels 8, connate in a sessile, 8-gonous, 3- celled 
more in each cell; style columnar, short and 
globose, pulpy berry. Seeds few or, by abortion, aqrk sub- 
sicbiens ie. black, fragile; embryo dorsal ; albumen 
cemes as long as or (usually) longer than the slender, eageee 
as 
Ra 
falcate coat channelled beneath and only twice as lon 
pace 
longest spin 
i ‘itn (usually considerably) shorter than the strong, sub- 
erect, strict triquetrous cladodes, which many times exceed sig 
ightly r 
siesta spines 
2212. Asparacus racemosus Willd. ; F. I. ii. 151; F. B. I. vi. 316; 
E. D. A. 1575. 
In most of the provinces. 
