S42 
FWBA OF ADEN, 
series, imbricate, (rarely valvate,) in bud. Stamens 6, rarely 3 or fewer, 
bypogynous or adnate to the perianth ; filaments free or connate ; 
anthers oblong or linear, often dorsifixed, usually dehiscing longitudinally. 
Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 2 or more from the inner angles of the cells, 
anatropous (rarely orthotropous) ; style usually simple, often long (rarely 
short or absent), or 3 styles. 
Fruit a capsule or berry, usually 3- (rarely 1-) celled. Seeds 1 or 
more, globose or flattened ; albumen horny or fleshy ; embryo small, 
terete. 
Genera 187 ; species about 2,500. 
Distribution Cosmopolitan. 
Flowers yellow . . . . . ” . . . 1. Albuca. 
Flowors white or violet ......... 2. Litfconia, 
Flowers greenish 3, Dipeadi. 
(This key applies only to the species described below.) 
1. Albuca Linn. 
Boot stock a tunicated bulb. Leaves all radical, linear or terete. 
Inflorescence a cylindrical or corymbose raceme ; pedicels sometimes 
long ; bracts persistent, membranous. Flowers large, white or yellow ; 
segments with a broad keel of green or red-brown. Perianth poly- 
phyllous ; outer segments oblong, spreading at the apex ; inner connivent, 
cucullate at the apex. Stamens 6, hypogynous, as long as the inner 
segments ; filaments flattened or filiform ; anthers oblong, all perfect or 
the 3 outer abortive. Ovary oblong, 3-celled, sessile ; ovules many, 
superposed ; style triquetrous or filiform, stigma usually 3-lobed. 
Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds numerous, compressed ; testa 
membranous, black ; albumen fleshy ; embryo cylindrical. 
Species : about 50. 
Distribution : — Tropical and S. Africa, Arabia. 
1. Albuca Yerburyi Ridley in Journ. Bot. (1884), 370, 
Local name : Yellow Shum Shum Lily. 
Description : — Leaves linear, lanceolate, hispid at the base, 14 inches 
long, 3-4 lines broad. 
Scape more than 9 inches long ; raceme lax. Flowers 9 or more, 
yellow, J inch long, pedicellate ; pedicels delicate, J inch long ; bracts 
membranous, lanceolate, long acuminate, longer than the pedicels, 
scarcely 4 inch long. Sepals lanceolate, oblong, slightly acute. Petals 
subsimilar, broader, obtuse. Stamens all fertile, slightly shorter than 
the petals, filaments dilated at the base, complanate, above filiform. 
Pistil as long as the stamens ; style filiform, slender ; ovary ovoid, 
