186 JMELANTHACEAE a. qray. (Veratrum.) 



triloculare ; ovula in loculis plura, angulo interiori afifixa, bi- 

 seriata, subsessilia, adscendentia, anatropa. Styli 3, breves, 

 continui, divaricati, apice stigmatosi. Stigmata oblique reni- 

 formia. Capsula oblonga, trilocularis, tricornis, tripartibilis ; 

 carpidiis introrsum debiscentibus. Semina in loculis com- 

 plura, sessilia, subadscendentia, oblique oblonga, compressa, 

 late alata, bracteaeformia ; testa in alam nucleum cingentem 

 relaxata, papyracea. *) Embryo cylindraceus, extremitate 

 radiculari parum incrassata, ad basim albuminis carnosi propc 

 hilum inclusus. Herbae perennes^ magis minusve pubescentes ; 

 rhixomate crasso, fibris validis obsito. Caulis e?'ectus^ sim- 

 plex, foliatus. Folia late elliptica vel oblonga y nervosa^ 

 plicata^ vaginata, vaginis integris; superiora gradatim 

 minora^ vagina destituta. Racemi bracteati, in paniculam 

 terminalem simplicem vel subramosam, plerumaue pyrami- 

 datam dispositi. Flores flavo-albi vel atro-purpurei. 



1. V. NIGRUM Linn. Spec. 1479. Jacq. Austr. t. 336.£chkuhr. 

 Handb. t. 341. Bernh. in Trommsd. Journ. XVI. 2. 206. Schrad. 

 Journ. 2. 358. Gmel. Sib. 1. 76. Willd. Spec. 4. 826. Cand. Gall. 

 3. 194. Gaud. Helv. 6. 312. Smith. Prod. 249. Red. Lil. t. 416. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 963. Hayne, Term. bot. t. 40. /. 7. Mert. et Koch. 

 Germ. 2. 626. Roem. et Schult. Syst. 7. 1552. Koch.Synops. 724. 

 Bess. Enum. 15. Ledeb. Flor. Alt. 2. 63. Raceuiis paniculatis, 

 pubescentibus ; bracteis ad basim ramorum lineari-lanceolatis, 

 longissimis; pedicellis longitudine perigonii subintegerrimi ; fo- 

 liis plicatis; inferioribus ellipticis. Mert. et Koch. Melanthium 

 nigrum Thunb. Diss. de Melanth. 4. Helonias nigra Ker in 

 Journ. of Sc. 2. 184. — In montosis sylvaticis Europae me- 

 diae, praecipue cis Rhenum orientem versus ; in Austria, Sty- 

 ria, Carniolia, Carinthia, Hungaria, Volhynia, Russia, Sibiria, 

 Camtschatca, Laconia. E Britannia genus totum exsul. 2J. — 

 Sepala oblouga vel obovato-oblonga, obtusa, integerrima, atro- 

 purpurea, patentissima, stamina subduplo supcrantia. Anthe- 

 rae subrotundo-reniformes, uniloculares, sordide croceac. Ova- 

 riurn tricoccum, oblongum, sessile, glabrum; in floribus mas- 

 culis pistilla 3 rudimentaria. Ovula 11 in quolibet loculo, bi- 

 seriata. Styli 3, distincti , ovario triplo brcviores, divaricati. 

 Stigmata oblique subreuiformia. 



2. V. ALBUM Linn. Spec. 1479. Mill Ic. t. 271. Gunn. 

 JYorv. n. 315. t. 1. Scop. Carn. n. 1233. Gouan. Monsp. 316. 

 All. Ped. 2. 166. Vill. JDelph. 2. 279. Jacq. Austr. t. 335. Pall. 



*) Tcsta laxa, supra rhaphem umbilicum basilarem chalazae apicali 



iipntpm in :il:im nrmliwt:< Fml! 



jun^entem in alam producta. Eudl. 



