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Peduncles axillary in pairs ; perianth about an inch 
long, red ; style just longer, stamens just shorter than 
the perianth ; root said to be solid, that is, not a tuni- 
cated bulb, but a pear-shaped tuber, with inferior 
fasciculate small tubers; leaves keeled, spotted at the 
base. Native of Mexico. 
24. Ixiolirion. — Stalk bracteate with peduncles axillary or 
terminal, 1-2 flowered; germen oblong, erect; peri- 
anth deeply cleft, (I believe not divided) regular, 
half-patent ; alternate segments equal ; filaments 
straight, inserted at the base of the segments, alter- 
nately equal; anthers versatile; style straight; capsule 
oblong, striped, 3-celled, 3-valved ; seeds numerous, 
oval-oblong. 
1. Montanum. — PI. 20. fig. 3. Spec, ex Aleppo. Herb. 
Lamb. — Am. montana. Red. lil. 241. Labill. Syr. 
dec. 2. p. 5. t. 1. 
2. Tataricum. — PI. 19. Spec, ex Altai. Herb. Lamb. — 
Am. Tatarica. Pall. it. 3. ap. 85. t. D. f. 1. 
Var. Scythica. — PI. 20. f. 1. Specim. Cyananthes. Pallas. 
MS. Herb. Lindl. ex Scythia. 
Montanum and Tataricum, as far as can be judged from 
the dry specimens, approach very closely to each other in 
the flower, which is probably blue in the whole genus ; but 
Montanum, the Syrian plant, is distinguished by the remark- 
able feature of having a partly spiked inflorescence, contrary 
to the usual habit of the order, while the flowers of all the 
specimens 1 have seen of Tataricum are terminal. Redoute’s 
figure represents Montanum with flowers from the axills of 
the bractes, though not so decidedly as the specimen I have 
sketched. 
Tecopiiilea? — R oot small, bulbous, pear-shaped, with 
thready membranaceous integuments ; leaves 1 or 
few; stem 1 -few-flowered (perhaps never more than 
2) germen oblong ; perianth deeply cleft (regular? 
half-patent ?) filaments, according to Bertero, three 
fertile, three abortive barren. I have not been able 
to see the filaments, and cannot learn whether the 
sepaline or petaline are abortive, nor whether they 
are ever perfect. I believe it rather to be a true 
triandrous plant with three processes between the 
stamens, and referable to Irideae. 
