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LILIACE2E. 
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pedicels \ in., finally | in. long, articulated at the tip ; bracts lanceo- 
late, in. long. Perianth f in. long, the segments twice as long 
as the oblong tube. Stamens as long as the perianth. Style slightly ex- 
serted. Capsule oblong, \ in. long. 
Rodriguez, common throughout the island, Balfour , 1306 ! Endemic. Ana- 
nas mar r on. 
2. MILLA, Cay. 
Perianth funnel-shaped, with a distinct tube and 6 subequal 
oblong spreading or ascending lobes. Stamens 6, included, uni- 
seriate or biseriate near the throat of the tube ; anthers versatile. 
Ovary sessile or stipitate ; ovules many and superposed in a cell ; style 
simple ; stigma capitate. Fruit a membranous capsule. Seeds small, 
black, triquetrous. — Bulbous herbs, with narrow rather fleshy 
leaves and flowers in umbels. Distrib. All the other 25 species 
American. 
1. M. borbonica, Baker. Leaves under a foot long, fleshy, £ in. 
broad. Scape fragile, glabrous, above a foot long. Flowers 6-10 in 
an umbel, with two small lanceolate spathe-valves, on pedicels 1-1 J in. 
long. Perianth white, under \ in. long, the oblong lobes twice as long 
as the broadly funnel-shaped tube. Stamens included, uniseriate at 
the throat of the tube; filaments lanceolate. Ovary subsessile ; ovules 
9-10 in a cell ; style exserted, % in. long. Nothoscordum borboni- 
cum, Kunth , Enum. iv. 462. Allium fragrans, Bojer , Hort. Mam. 
348, not Vent. 
Mauritius, in plenty in cultivated places and fields in the quarters of Plaines- 
Wilhelms and Pamplemousses. Also Bourbon. 
3. ASPHODELUS, Linn. 
Perianth polyphyllous, rotate when expanded, with six subequal 1- 
nerved oblanceolate segments. Stamens almost hypogynous, included ; 
filaments flattened at the base ; anthers versatile. Ovary sessile, 
globose ; ovules 2, in a cell, collateral ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. 
Fruit a globose capsule. Seeds often solitary in the cells. — Annual or 
perennial herbs, with leaves in a basal rosette and white flowers in 
panicled racemes. Distrib. Old World, mainly in the north tempe- 
rate zone. Species 5. 
1. A. fistulosus, Linn. ; var. A. tenitifolitts, Cav. ; Kunth , 
Enum. iv. 558. A glabrous annual, with fibrous roots. Leaves half 
a foot long, terete. Flowers in lax copiously panicled racemes 2-8 
inches long ; pedicels £ in., ascending, solitary, articulated at the 
middle, with a small lanceolate basal bract. Perianth i in. long. 
Capsule globose, the size of a pea, the valves strongly ribbed 
horizontally. 
Mauritius, in dry ground at various elevations. Rodriguez, on the coral islets 
of Gombrani and Pierrots, Balfour ! Also Mediterranean region and East Indies. 
