CXXXV. LILIACE^. 1619 



TniBK VIII. tolxnmoniem.^Itootstock ihort or creeping. Stems not bulboui, often low 

 branching or rush-like. Flowers in fascicles or crowded in terminal heads ; brncti imbricate. 



Perianth spirally twisted over the ovary after flowering but at length 



deciduous ; filaments bearded or woolly. Nutlets usually 2 or 3. 



Umbels terminal 18. TiticoBYNU. 



Perianth the outer segments free, the inner ones shortly united at the base. 



Anthers 6, short, 2-lobed at the base. Seeds few, black, not flattened 19. Lixminnia, 

 Flowers in heads on long peduncles. Bracts densely imbricate. Perianth 



hypocrateriform, tube very slender. Stamens 6. Capsule 3-valved . . 20. Bobya. 

 Flowers in umbels, with numerous scarious imbricate bracts. Anthers 



3, divided into long erect lobes ' 21. Sowibbya. 



Teide IX. Ang'uillarlefe. — Rootstoch a tunicate conn. Stem one or more leaued. 

 Anthers dehiscing extrorsely. Styles 3, distinct, or rarely connate at the base. 



Perianth segments free, deciduous, induplicate or convolute round the 



opposite stamens in the bud. Capsule septicidally S-valved . . . . 22. Bubchabdia. 



Perianth persistent the segments quite distinct. Flowers simply spicate . 23, Anouillaria. 



Perianth-segmenlis separately deciduous. Flowers few, Inflorescence 



simple 24. Iphigenia. 



Tbibe X. TTvularleae. — Rootstoch tuberous or creeping. Stems leafy. Leaves not shealhr 

 ing. Flowers axillary or terminal. Anthers dehiscing extrorsely. Style filiform, Sfid. 



Perianth-segments without appendages. Flowers solitary or few in a 

 terminal umbel. Capsule looulicidally 3-valved. Leaves ovate or 

 lanceolate . . . ""f 25. Schelhammeea. 



Perianth-segments with glandular appendages at the base. Flowers solitary 

 or few in axillary peduncles. Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate 2(1. Keeysigia. 



1. SMILAX, Linn. 

 (Alluding to the sharp prickles which often cover the stems.) 



(Coprosmanthus, Kuiiih.) 

 Flower dicEcious. Perianth deciduous, of 6 distinct spreading segments, all 

 ec[ual, or in species not Australian the 3 outer ones larger or united at the base, 

 or the 3 inner ones wanting. Stamens 6, or in a few species not Australian 3, 

 inserted at the base of the segments, filaments filiform or very short ; anthers 

 oblong, the 2 parallel cells separated by a scarcely prominent dissepiment, and 

 when open apparently 1 -celled ; the stamens all rudimentary only in the female 

 flowers. Ovary rudimentary or entirely deficient iji the male flowers, sessile in 

 the females, 8-eelled, with 1, or rarely 2, erect ovules in each cell. Style very 

 short, divided to the base or nearly so into 3 oblong usually recurved stigmatic 

 lobes. Fruit a globular berry, usually ripening only 1 or 2 thick seeds without 

 strophioles. Testa thin but hard, smooth and shining, closely appressed to the 

 hard albumen. Embryo either very small or half the length of the albumen, 

 distant from the hilum. — -Branching climbers, the stems and main branches 

 hard, often armed with scattered prickles. Leaves ovate orbicular or narrow, 

 usually coriaceous and shining, with transverse or reticulate veins between the 

 longitudinal nerves, marked with numerous small transparent dots, intermixed 

 sometimes with larger oblong ones ; the petioles usually short, bearing on each 

 side a simple tendril,, sometimes reduced to a short point, and more or less 

 winged below the tendrils. Flowers small, white or pale green or purple ; 

 pedicellate in sessile or pedunculate umbels, which are either solitary in the axils, 

 or several in axillary or terminal panicles. Bracts in the umbel very small, 

 imbricate, with one pedicel in each axil. 



A large genus, dispersed over the tropical and temperate regions both of the New and tha 

 Old World. The Australian species are both endemic,^ 'though they are nearly allied to 

 corresponding Asiatic species. 



Perianth-segments broad, scarcely above 1 line long. Filaments shorter 



than the anthers 1. S. glycyphylla. 



Perianth-segments narrow, IJ to 2 lines long. Filaments rather longer 



than the anthers 2. S. australis. 



