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AMARYLLIDACE,®. 
above the germen in the female ; capsule with a large 
incurved wing on one side ; seed roundish, with a 
prominence. See PI. 43. f. 53. 
Obs. — I understand the perianth to be undivided at the 
base, the only feature mentioned, except its capsule and 
seeds, by which it can be distinguished from Dioscorea. 
1. Hastata. Willd. Plum. Am. 84. t. 98. — 2. Cordata. 
Willd. Plum. ic. 155. f. 1. — 3. Quinquefolia.Willd. 
Plum. ic. 155. f. 2. 
A leaf from the Chelsea garden, said by its able conductor 
to be certainly that of a Rajania (perhaps hastata), has three 
strong veins tending to the point, two weaker near the mar- 
gin, tile cross veins oblique and confluent, but none decidedly 
retroflex. Quinquefolia has three principal veins, and the 
lesser intermediate veins are represented oblique and feather- 
like, but not confluent. It must be observed that even the 
species of Dioscoreseform plants, which agree in not having 
the veins parallel, disagree amongst themselves as to their 
actual direction. When I alluded (above, p. 51) to the possi- 
bility of detaching Smilaceae by an axillary inflorescence, 1 
should have modified the term so as to include the inflores- 
cence of Ruscus, which is borne on the margin of the leaf 
instead of the axill. That circumstance does not however 
interfere with the separation, being a still further removal 
from the other division, but it renders it more difficult to 
characterize the separation by a single word. 
§. 2. IxiiEFORMEs.' — Root bulbous ; pericarp not pulpace- 
ous, (seeds with a horny albumen and hard 
shell ?) 
23. Bravoa. — Stalk spiked, bracteate ; germen oblong, 
faintly triangular ; perianth persistent ; cylindrical, 
with the mouth of the tube widened, the segments of 
the limb very short, alternate segments smaller ; fila- 
ments inserted at the base of the tube, filiform ; an- 
thers versatile ; style thickened ; stigma triangular ; 
capsule oblong, 3-celled, 3-valved ; seeds numerous, 
kidney-shaped, in two rows. 
1. Geminiflora. — PL 12. f. 8, 9. Spec. Herb. Lindl. De 
la Llave et Lexarsa, Nov. veg. desc. f. 1. 1824. 
Caetocapnia geminiflora (et Zetocapnia) Link et 
Otto. PI. rar. h. r. Berl. p. 35. ic. 18. 1828. 
