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Hemerocallis, ] LILIACEZ. 1077 
tered, often broad, rarely linear or lorate. Flowers laxly racemed 
introrse, the filament inserted in a small pit on the back of the 
connective. Carpels 3, connate in a sessile, 3- quetrous, ay 
Ovary; ovules 4 or more in each cell; style filiform; sti igma 
Fruit a coriaceous, truncate, 8-quetrous, often 3-lobed, Tocuticidal 
capsule. Seeds broad, usually compressed, rugose, not angular ; 
testa black; albumen rather hard; embryo often curved, rather 
large, 
Root-fibres fleshy, cylindric; leaves usually contracted near the bas 
into a short petiole art eaten 
Root-fibres — cylindric, partly tuberous; leaves rarely contra cted 
Near the bas tuberosum 
2231. CHLoRopHYTUM ARUNDINACEUM Bak.; F. B. I. vi. 333. 
ota Nagpur; 
A her 
2232, Cnesaeeen TUBEROSUM Hr F. B. I. vi. 884. An- 
thericum tuberosum F. I. i 
ge W. Bengal. 
A her 
972. Hemerocallis Linn. 
howy herbs, with fleshy root-fibres and a short rootstock ; 
wines long, narrow, often grass-like, strongly ribbed and many- 
ene funnel- ei segments 6, connate below 
» declinate ; anthers linear-oblong, the connective with a 
rsal pit for the tip of the filament ; dehiscence introrse. Carpels 
3, connate in a = taba oblong, obtusely 3-cornered, 3-cell 
‘4 small, capitate. Prast a coriaceous, oblong or subglobose, 
