LILIALES. 



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Southern and Eastern Africa, the inspissated juice of whose leaves con- 

 stitutes tile drug Aloes. 



SmUax officinalis, of South America, and other species, furnish Sarsa- 

 parilla root. 



Fig 349 —Underground parts of Colchicum antiiTnmUe at the time of flowering. 

 A. front view ; *, old corm ; y, s", scales surrounding flower stalk. B, section show- 

 ing new stem, h\ with rudimentary leaves, V, I" ; the very long tubular flowers, S, fi', 

 spring from near the. summit of the new stem, W. 'i'he followmg spring h' will elon- 

 gate and carry the IViiit, and leaves V, I", above ground ; the lower part of W will en- 

 large into a corm like k\ while at k" a new plint will form as a lateral bud.— After 

 Sachs. 



8cUla maritima ; the sliced bulb of this Mediterranean sand plant is 

 the druji Squill. 



Veratrum album, the White Hejlebpre of the ntountains of Central 



