374 ' LILIACE^. C'^'^^^"- 



Wight, Ic. t. 2041) have blue flowers, and pass gradually into *« ""^^ TT*!.*^^^' 

 ovulate species. Hooker and Amott referred OmitUgalum sinense, Lour., to the 6. cMnerms, 

 hut it is surely different, if correctly described as having the penanth-segments not divided 

 to the base and the bracts spathaceous. 



8. LILItIM, Linn. 



Periantli-segments distinct, nan-owed and erect at the base, spreading or 

 recurved at the top. Stamens 6, inserted at their base. Anthers linear. 

 Ovary 3-celled, with numerous horizontal ovules. Style elongated ; stigma 

 3-angled or 3-lobed. Capsule 3-ralved. Seeds horizontal, winged.— Tall 

 herbs, with scaly bulbs and simple leafy stems. Flowers few, large, terminal. 



A considerable geuns, dispersed over the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere or 

 the mountainous districts of tropical Asia. 



1. L. longiflorum, Thunh.; KuntJi, Enum. iv. 266; Bot. Beg. t. 560. 

 Stems 2 ft. high or more. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2 to 3 in. long ; the upper 

 ones smaller. Plowers white, solitary, or 2 or 3 on short pedicels, nodding, 

 fuU 5 in. long, narrow-campanulate and much contracted below the middle. 



On the sides of hills amongst grass. Champion, Hance, and on the Chinese continent. 



Order CXVIT. PONTEDERACEiE. 



Elowers usually irregular, hermaphrodite. Perianth inferior, petal-like, of 

 6 segments or lobes, in 2 series. Stamens 6 or 3, often dissimilar. Ovary 

 8-celled or with 3 projecting parietal placentas, with 1 or more ovules to each 

 cell or placenta. Style single, with a 3-lobed. or 6-toothed stigma. Fruit 

 capsular, superior, but sometimes enclosed in the persistent tube of the peri- 

 anth. Seeds albuminous, with a slender embryo. — Aquatic herbs. Leaves 

 usually petiolate, parallel-veined. Flowers usually blue or white, in spikes 

 or racemes proceeding from the sheath of the last leaf (or sometimes of the 

 only leaf of the scape), usually with 1 or 2 sheathing bracts at the base of the 

 peduncle. 



A small Order, dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the globe, or in N. 

 America extending into more temperate districts. 



1. MONOCHORIA, Presl. 



Perianth nearly regular, divided to the base into 6 spreading segments. 

 Stamens 6, unequal, 1 usually larger, with a small tooth or spur on the fila- 

 ment. Ovules numerous in each cell of the ovary. Capsule free, 3-valved, 

 many-seeded. — Leaves radical, on long petioles. Scapes with 1 petiolate leaf, 

 the short raceme in its axil appearing to proceed from the middle of the pe- 

 tiole. Flowers few. 



A small tropical Asiatic genus. 



Leaves ovate-cordate. Mowers 6 to 12 1. M.vaginaXis. 



Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 1 to 3 2. ^| plardaginea. 



1. M. vaginalis, Fred; Kmith,Enu'm.vf. IM. Leaves and scapes foim- 

 ing dense tufts from a creeping rhizome. Petioles long, hollow, sheathing at the 

 base. Leaves cordate, acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, 1 to near 2 in. broad. 



