x CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS. 
Series iv. Calycinee.—Perianth calyx-like, small, rigid or herbaceous, the 
inner rarely petaloid but small, Ovary superior. Albumen copious. 
CXLV. FLaGELLARIEx. Flowers regular or subregular. Perianth subpetaloid 
or scarious. Stamens 6. Ovary 3-celled; ovules solitary. Fruit succulent or 
drupaceous. Embryo lenticular, outside the floury albumen. Robust herbs. 
CXLVI. Juncacea. Flowers regular, Perianth glumaceous. Stamens 6, 
rarely 3. Ovary 1-3-celled; ovules solitary or more, Capsule 3-valved. Embryo 
enclosed in the more or less fleshy albumen. Perennial herbs, rarely shrubs. 
CXLVII, Parma. Flowers regular or subregular. Perianth coriaceous, fleshy 
or membranous. Stamens 6 or more. Ovary 1- to many- (ueually 3-) celled, 
sometimes of 3 distinct carpels; ovules solitary. Fruit baccate or drupaceous ; 1- or 
more celled. Embryo small, enclosed in a pit near the margin of the albumen. 
Trees or shrubs with pinnatisect or flabellate leaves. 
Series v. Nudifloree.—Perianth none or reduced to scales or sete. Ovary 
superior ; carpels solitary or if many syncarpous, 1- to many-ovuled. Seeds 
usually albuminous. 
* Flowers arranged on spadices. Trees, shrubs, or terrestrial herbs. 
CXLVIII. Panpanex. Flowers dicecious. Perianth none or rudimentary 
Carpels 1-celled, solitary or more frequently collected into phalanges. Shrubs or 
trees, erect or climbing. Leaves sessile, long ensiform, sheathing at the base, usually 
spiny on the margins and underside of the midrib. Spadices fascicled or paniculate ; 
bracts spathaceous. ° 
CXLIX. TyPHacem. Flowers monecious, very rarely diccious. Perianth of 
3-6 membranous scales, or absent. Aquatic or marsh herbs with a creeping rhizome, 
Leaves linear, entire, sheathing at the base. Spadices naked or with 1 leaf-like bract 
at the base. 
CL. ARoIDEx. Flowers hermaphrodite or moneecious, very rarely dicecious. 
Perianth none, or of 3-9 free or connate membranous segments. 
various habit. Leaves various. 
open at the base. 
Herbs or shrubs of 
Spadices solitary ; spathes convolute, tubular or 
** Flowers solitary or in pairs in mar. 
gickots esting harks ginal cavities. Minute lenticular or 
CLI. Lemynacez. Flowers very minute, 
enclosed in a memby 
fy ee tbl lleis mbranous spathe 
Series vi. Apocarpze.— Perianth 1 
—2-seriate or none. 
carpels solitary, or if several distinct. 
Seeds exalbuminous. 
CLII. Atismackz. Flowers hermaphrodite, 
rarely dicecious. Perianth regular 
Ovary superior ; 
moncecious or polygamous, very 
3 Segments 6, imbricate, biseriate, rarely uniseriate 
