1G18 CXXXV. LILIACEJl. 



wanting. Inflorescence variously branched or simple, usually centripetal, or 

 reduced to a single terminal flower. Perianth usually glabrous, very variously 

 coloured, often blue, as well as red, white, yellow, or purple. 



The Older is generally distributed over the warmer and temperate regions of the globe X' 

 most abundant in dry sunny countries. 



Tr.iDE 1. Smllacefe. — Stems climbing. Leaves 3 to 5-nerved and reticulately veined, 

 petioles often cirrhiferous. Flowers small, in umbels. Anthers after dehiscence l-«Kett. 

 Ov)des few, orthotropous or half anatropoas. 



Flowers dicEcious, in sessile or pedunculate umbels 1, Smilax. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, in racemes either simple and axillary or terminal 

 and paniculate 2. Bhipogonum. 



Tribe II. Asparag'ese. — Stems erect or climbinrj. Leaves replaced by usually linear 

 or acicidar cladodes. Flowers small, solitary, fascicled or racemose. Anthers distinctty 2- 

 cellcd. Oimles few, orthopropotis or half anatropoiis. 



Cladodes or leaves clustered, subulate. Flowers axillary 3. Asparagus. 



Tribe III. Xiuzuriagrese.— Stems erect, branching shriihy or climbing. Leaves variout.. 

 Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or fascicled cymose or rarely racemose. Anther-cellt^ 

 distinct. Ovides fexo or numerous, anatropous or half anatropOiis. 



Leaves flat, solitary. Anthers erect. Tall climbers. '■ 



Flowers axillary. Inner perianth-segments fringed 4. Eustrephcs. 



Flowers in terminal cymes. Inner perianth-segments entire . . . . -5. Geitonople»ium. 



Tribe IV. Kemerocalleee. — Leaves linear, radical. Floioers large, paniculate, race- 

 mose or spicate. Perianth cylindneal or funnel-shaped. Filaments inserted in a dorsal pit 

 of the anther. Ovules numerous. Fruit a capsule. 



Ovary stipitate, with numerous ovules in each cell. Capsule septicidally 

 3-valved. Flowers pendulous in a terminal raceme 6. Blandfobdia. 



Tribe V. Dracaeneae.— LeatJcs radical or on an erect woody stem. Perianth cylindncat 

 funnel-shaped or eampanulate. Anthers basifixed or dorsifixed, filaments not inserted in * 

 pit. Fruit a berry. Ovary u'ith the cells 1-ovidate. 



Ovary with the cells 1-ovulate 7. Drac/Esa. 



Ovary with the cells many-ovulate 8. Cobdtlink. 



Tribe VI. Asphodelese. — Rootstock short, or a bulb. Floiiiers racemose or paniculate-.. 

 Perianth segments distinct. Cajisule loctdicidal or a berry in Dianella. 



Perianth deciduous, not t\?isted; filaments bearded. Baceme simple . . 9. Bulbine. 

 Perianth spirally twisted over the ovary after flowering, at length 

 deciduous. Capsule 3-valved, filaments glabrous. 



Anthers 6 or 3, the cells opening longitudinally, but the outer valve 

 produced beyond the inner. Inner perianth-segment fringed, 

 enclosing the inner stamens in the bud. Umbels usually 2 or more 



flowered 10. TBYSANoitra. 



Perianth not twisted, persistent round the fruit, unchaned or withering. 

 Filaments hairy ia the upper half. 

 Flowers loosely racemose. Anthers not recurved. Seed angular . . . 11. Authbopodium. 

 Filaments glabrous. Anthers with basal crests. Seeds angular . . 12. Dkhopooon. 

 Perianth s-pirally twisted over the ovary after flowering, at length 

 deciduous. Umbels or clusters in a simple raceme. Anthers 6, free 

 opening in slits. Capsule obtuse-angular ; ovules 2 in each cell. 



Seeds globular 13. CiEsiA. 



Flowers minute, solitary or 2 together along the rigid branches ; filaments 



glabrous. Kutlets 1-seeded, indehiscent 14, Corynoiheca. 



Perianth persistent. Filaments abruptly thickened under the anther. 



Anthers erect, opening in terminal pores. Fruit a berry 15. Dianella. 



Filaments bearded or withadnate appendages under the anther. Anthers 

 recuved after flowering.' SefiUs flattened 16. Stypanhra. 



Tribe VIT. Allieae. — Eootstock in the genus Allium a bulb. 



Scape simple ; flowers umbellate or capitate, at first enclosed in a spath- 

 aceous involucre. Capsule looulicidal, tunicate bulbs. Perianth 

 segments connate 17. *NoTHOscoRDum 



