IJliacea.] liliace^. 369 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Leafy stem simple or none. 

 Stock not bulbous. Stem leafy at the base only. 

 Fruit a berry. (Flowers pale-blue or greenish.) 



Flowers in a raceme. Filaments slender 3. Ophiopogon. 



Flowers paniculate. Filaments thickened under the anther . . 4. Dianella. 

 Fruit a capsule; 



Flowers blue, in a terminal umbel. Inner segments very thin 



and involute on the edges 5. Thysanotus. 



Flowers small, white, distant in a raceme or panicle. Capsule 



acutely angled or 3-lobed 6. Antheeioum. 



Stock bulbous. 



Leaves and scape radical. Flowers small, racemose . . .7. Scilla. 



Stem leafy. Flowers 1 or few, very large . . 8. LiuuM. 



I. SMILAX, Linn. 



(Coprosraanthus, Kunth.) 

 Flowers dicBcious. Perianth of 6 spreading segments, all equal, or the 

 8 outer larger, or the 3 outer united, and the 3 inner wanting. Male flowers -. 

 Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the segments, or rarely 3, free or monadel- 

 phous. Female flowers : Slamens rudimentary. Ovary 3-ceIled, with 1 or 3 

 erect ovules in each cell. Stigmas 3, sessile, distinct, or shortly united; Fruit 

 a globular berry. Embryo minute, remole from the hilum. — Climbers. Leaves 

 with digitate nerves and reticulate veins, usually coriaceous and shining; the 

 petioles usually bearing 2 simple tendrils, and often winged below the tendrils. 

 Flowers small, usually white, in sessile or pedunculate axillary umbels, often 

 forming terminal panicles. 



A large genns, dispersed over the tropical and temperate regions of the globe. 



Perianth-segments 6, in 3 series. Stamens 6, free. 

 Leaves glaucous or white underneath. Filaments shorter than 

 the anthers. 

 Outer perianth-segments broadly obcordate. Female umbels 



many-flowered. Leaves acuminate \. S. glabra. 



Outer pemnth-segments ovate. Female umbels few-flowered. 



Leaves not acuminate 2. & hypoglauca. 



Leaves green on both sides. Filaments longer than the anthers. 



Umbels solitary, in the axils of full-grown leaves . . . . 3. <S. lanceafolia. 

 Umbels solitary, in the axil of the lowest leaf of the young 



shoots 4. 5. ferox. 



Umbels in axillary panicles. Leaves large .... . 5. S. ovalifoUa. 



Perianth oblong, 3-toothed. Stamens 3, monadelphous . . . 6. & ~ 



1. S. glabra, Roxb. M. Ind. iii. 793; Kunth, Bnum. v. 163; 

 Bot. Her. t. 100. Unarmed. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long, 

 coriaceous, green and shining above, 3- or 5-nerved, glaucous or white under- 

 neath, the old ones rarely green on both sides. Umbels axillary, solitary, 

 sessile or shortly pedunculate, without scales at the base of the peduncle. 

 Flowers numerous both in the males and females. Buds 3-lobed ; the outer 

 segments being short, thick, fleshy, very broadly obcordate, concave in the 

 centre ; the inner segments very much smaller, orbicular. Anthers short, 

 sessile or nearly so. 



Hongkong, Hinds, Champion, Hance. Also in Khasia. 



3. S. nypoglanca, Benth., n. sp. Unarmed. Leaves oblong or lan- 



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