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" Family XTX” LILIACEAE. Cisse 
Perennial herbs, rarely shrubs or trees. Root fibrous, or rhizome 
tuberous or bulbous or creeping. Stem herbaceous or woody, erect or 
climbing, tall or scarcely produced beyond the radical leaves. Leaves 
usually in radical tufts, or crowded at the ends of the stems or branches, 
or scattered along the branches, very various in size, shape, and texture. 
Flowers usually regular, hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual, inflorescence 
very various. Perianth inferior, petaloid; tube long or short; limb 
6-lobed or -partite; segments in 2 series, imbricate or rately valvate. | 
Stamens 6, rarely 3, inserted towards the base of the perianth-segments and | 
opposite to them, rarely hypogynous ; filaments free or connate at the base ; | 
anthers oblong or linear, 2-celled, versatile. Ovary superior, 3-celled (some- | 
times imperfectly so in Astelia) ; style usually simple with a small terminal 
stigma, or more or less deeply divided into 3 stigmatic branches; ovules | 
few or many in each cell, attached to the inner angle, usually anatropous. 
Fruit a 3-celled (rarely 1-celled) capsule or berry. Seeds 1 or more in each 
cell, globose or angular or flattened; testa frequently black, crustaceous 
or membranous ; albumen copious, fleshy or horny; embryo small, terete. 
A very large and important family, found all over the world, but more abundant 
in temperate and subtropical regions than in the tropics. It is frequently divided into 
3 or 4 separate families, but in a small Flora it seems advisable to avoid extreme sub- 
division. Genera estimated at 200, species about 2800. The order has many useful 
species. The onion, leek, garlic, and asparagus are well-known edible plants. Aloes, 
squills, and sarsaparilla are important medicines. Phormium produces one of the 
strongest of vegetable fibres. Some are dangerous poisons, as white hellebore and 
meadow-saffron. Among the multitude of showy garden plants it will be sufficient. 
to mention the lily, tulip, hyacinth, asphodel, lily of the vallev. Of the 10 genera 
found in New Zealand, Phormiwm extends ta Norfolk Tsland ; Rhipogonum, Herpolirion, 
and Arthropodium occur in Australia, the latter in New Caledonia as well; Hnargea 
in Chile and the Falkland Islands; Astelia in Australia, the Pacific islands, and 
temperate South America; Bulbinella in South Africa; the remaining three (Cordyline, 
Dianella, and Iphigenia) are widely distributed. 
A, Fruit a berry. 
* Leaves with distant parallel primary veins connected by transverse veinlets. 
Tall branching climber. Leaves usually opposite. Flowers Sn o2208, 
racemose or panicuiate .. x Me x --<_l. RaTpocontm. a 
Stems short, wiry, creeping. Leaves alternate. Flowers solitary, 
or 2-3, axillary se a mn hg 2. Enarena. } 
** Veins of leaves not connected by transverse veinlets. oamet oan co ; 
Stems woody, usually arborescent. Leaves crowded at the ends \ 
of the stem or branches, glabrous. Flowers hermaphrodite ; ,- G& ~ 
perianth deciduous (3. /ORDYLINE. 
Large tufted herbs. Leaves all radical, more or less clothed with 
silky hairs. Flowers dioecious ; perianth persistent a « ASTELIA. 
Tufted herbs. Leaves all radical, glabrous. Flowers her- 2. Colhpohirwoek 
maphrodite ; filaments thickened upwards. . se .-. &. DIANELLA. 
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5, Fruit a capsule. 
Leaves long, narrow, coriaceous. Scape tall, branched above. —— eae 
Perianth tubular, curved. . yr + Ay ; .f 6. PHor TUM. | 
Leaves linear, fleshy. Scape stout, naked. Flowers racemose, 
yellow; filaments naked ‘ ie ve -. 4%. BULBINELLA. 
Seape stout, with leafy bracts. Flowers panicled, white ; pedicels ° 
jointed in the middle. Filaments bearded ges .. 38° ARTHROPODIUM. 
Small alpine herb. Rhizome creeping. Leaves distichous, 
Flowers large, solitary, sessile. Style filiform A .. 6%. Herroririoy, 
Small herbs. Rootstock a tunicate corm. Leaves few. Flower 
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