526 Litiacee—Triteleut. 
distinct rows. Name from tpe?s, three, and téAeos, complete, 
from the ternary arrangement of the parts of the flower. 
1. T. uniflora (fig. 256)—The most familiar species, a 
native of South America. A small hardy bulb from’ 6 to 12 
inches high, producing large tufts of linear somewhat fleshy 
leaves and numerous scapes bearing solitary terminal pure 
white or lilac-blue flowers in June or July. 
T. grandiflora, a Californian plant, less commonly seen, has 
white flowers; and 7. atrea, from Monte Video, is a smaller 
plant with filiform fleshy leaves and yellow flowers. 
20, HESPEROSCORDIUM. 
A closely allied North American genus or sub-genns with a 
campanulate perianth whose tube is three or four times as long 
as the segments of the limb. H. hyacinthinwm has fleshy 
herbaceous narrow leaves about a foot long, and flowers in 
umbels at the summit of a scape. Flowers blue or white, 10 
to 30 in an umbel; umbel with an involucre of numerous small 
bracts. 
21. CUMMINGIA. 
A small genus of Chilian bulbous plants with linear nervose 
leaves and branched scapes of drooping blue flowers. Perianth 
campanulate, adhering to the base of the ovary ; limb 6-parted, 
with spreading seements. Stamens inserted in the tube of the 
perianth; filaments compressed. In honour of Lady Gordon 
Cumming. 
1. OC. teimaculdatiu.—This has deep blue flowers with a dark 
purple spot on each segment. 
22, ASPHODELUS. 
A distinct genus of plants with fleshy fasciculated roots, 
usually radical tufted narrow or triquetrous leaves, and showy 
yellow or white flowers. Perianth of 6 free equal spreading 
segments. Stamevs 6, hypogynous, alternately long and short. 
Natives of the South of Europe. Name said to be derived from 
a, not, and oPadrw, to supplant, in allusion to the handsome 
flowers. 
1. A. litteus. King’s Spear.—-This is perhaps the hand- 
somest and at the same time the best known species. Stem 
leafy, about 3 or 4 feet high. Leaves small, triangular, pointed, 
dark green, marked with lines of a paler tint. Flowers in 
