295 



ascending, anatropal: style filiform, furrowed, elongated, erect, 

 stigma truncated simple: capsule 3-ceUed, tripartible : cells 1- 

 seeded, two often abortive. — Bulbous scape-bearing herbs, bulb 

 tunicated : leaves linear, striately nerved,- sometimes throwiug out 

 a bulb at the top : raceme many-flowered, pedicels 1-bracteate at 

 the base : flowers greenish, bases and pedicels red. 



(1) L. HTACIHTHINA. ' (Roth.J 



Ident. Eoth. Nov. Spec. 195. 



Si/n. Anthericum hyaciathoides. JF«7Z<?. Erythronium Indioum. 

 Eottl. 



Ungrav. Wight's Icon. t. 2040.— Bot. Mag. t. 3226. 



Spec. Chiab. Scapes 1 — 2, proceeding from the top of the bulb, ' 

 raoemosely-many flowered towards the top: leaves undulate, 

 glabrous, bearing bulbs at the apex: flowers small, bluish, hyaciath- 

 like. 



Coimbatore. Coromandel coast. Bundelcund. Southern Concan. 



(2) L. MAcnxATA. (Bah.) 

 Idmt. Dalz. in Hook. Joum. Bot. II. p. 142. — Bomb. flor. 251. 



Spec. Cttap, Leaves obovate, glabrous, wedge-shaped, attenuated 

 into the petiole, purple-spotted and never bearing bulbs : flowers 

 small, bluish, hyaeinthine. 



Concans. Deccan. Plowering in June. 



GENUS IX. ASPHODELTJS. 



Hexandria Monog'yiiia. Sex: SytU 



Beriv. Erom A, privative, and Sphallo, to supplant, a flower hot 

 ,to be surpassed. 



Geit. Chae. Calyx 6-sepaled, corollaceous, regular, deciduous, 

 sepals connate at the base, almost equal, spreading : stamens 6, 

 inserted at the base of the sepals, three a little longer, filaments 

 linear, dilated at the base, concave and covering the ovary, anthers . 

 2-ceUed, oblong, fixed above the 2-lobed base at the back, dehiscing 

 lengthways : ovary free, sessile, sub-globose, 3-ceUed, ovules twin 

 in the cells, collateral, inverted : style filiform, or sub-clavate, 

 Stigma capitately 3-lobed : capsules sub-globose, 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 valves septiferous: seeds 2 in each cellj one often abortive. 



