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middle, moveable, erect and then usually deeply perforated 

 for the reception of the filament : cells dehiscing lengthways : 

 ovary adnata its whole length to the base of the perianth, 

 3-celled : ovules numerous, attached by two rows to the inner 

 angle, horizontal, anatropal, sometimes two collateral or 

 solitary, ascending, very rarely pendulous: styline column 

 terminal, channelled fistular, generally 3-cornered : stigma 

 obtuse, capitellate, 3-lobed or cleft : fruit 3, sometimes by 

 abortion 2 — 1 -celled, 1 — many-seeded, usually capsular, loculi- 

 cidaUy 3-valved, rarely indehiscent and pulpy within or 

 baccate : seeds globose, oblong, angular, compressed or flat : 

 testa membranaceous or crustaceous, pale or dark, sometimes 

 greatly swelling, fleshy, clothed with a green adherent skin in 

 place of a testa : albumen fleshy, hardish, sometimes succulent: 

 embryo cylindric, straightish, axile : radicle extremity reaching 

 the hilum. — Plants usually with bulbs and scapes : bulb 

 tunicate: scape simple, 1 — many-flowered at the apex: flowers 

 umbelled, pedicelled or sessile, involucrated by a 1 — many- 

 leaved spathe : bracts distinct, erect, cernuous or pendulous, 

 usually showy, often fragrant: some caulescent, famished 

 with fibrous or tuberous fascicled roots: flowers terminal, 

 cymose or spiked, bracteated : leaves simple-nerved, entire, 

 sheathing at the base, in the bulbiferous ones often narrow, 

 lorate, in the caulescent ones scattered, sometimes dentately 

 spinous at the margin. 



GENUS I. CEINUM 

 Hexandria miono^yiiia. Sex: Syst: 

 Deriv. Prom Krinon, the Greek name for the lily. 



Gen Chas. -Perianth superior, coroUaceous, tube elongated, 

 slender, throat not enlarged, limb 6-parted, segments almost equal, 

 erect, spreading or reflesed : stamens 6, inserted at the top of the 

 tube, elongated : filaments filiform, spreading or decluiate : anthers 

 linear, versatile : ovary inferior, 3-celled : ovules numerous, in 2 

 rows, horizontal, anatropal : styline column filiform, erect or 

 inclined: stigma obtuse, obsoletely 3-lobed or 3-cleft: capsule 

 membranaceous, depressed spherical, 3- or by abortion, 1 — 2-celled, 

 » irregularly bursting: seeds few or solitary, angular, sub-globose, 



