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many-flowered, before flowering reflected, afterwards 
erect. Spatha acute. Three exterior petals shorter, 
ovate, subcarinate, rather obtuse, interior petals oblon- 
gated. Stamina subulate, simple. Capsule turbinate, 
triquetrous, angles bidentate above, cells 2-seeded. 7. 
triforum. Px. Described by Mr. Rafinesque under the 
same name in the New York Medical Repository, 2. p. 362. 
No. 59. in 1808. 8. canadense. 9. tricoccon. In this 
utr the flowers only appear after the decay of the 
eaves. 
This vast genus of more than 60 species is almost ex- 
clusively European, extending, however, into Siberia and 
northern Africa, many of the species are alpine, or sub- 
alpine. Several have ranked amongst condiments or. arti- 
cles of diet from the remotest antiquity. 
513. BRODLASA. Smith, 
Corolla inferior, campanulate, 6-parted. Fila- 
ments of the stamina inserted around the orifice. 
Germ pedicellate. Capsule 3-celled; cells many- 
seeded. ¢ 
Habit somewhat similar to Aldicm; umbell many-fiow- 
Srecizs. 1. B. grandifora. On the plains of the Co- 
lumbia and Missouri. M. Lewis. The only species of 
the genus. 
514. HYPOXIS. LZ. rs 
Spatha 2-valved. Corolla superior, 6-parted, 
persistent. Capsule elongated, narrower at the. 
base, 3-celled, many-sceded, Seeds roundish, 
Root fibrous; leaves gramineous; seapes 1 or few- 
flowered. 
Species. 1.H. erecta. 2. graminea. 3. juncea. 
The rest of this genus of 14 species, with the excep- 
tion of H. decumbens of Jamaica, is exclusively indigenous 
to the Cape of Good Hope. 
315. PONTEDERIA. L. 
Corolla inferior, 6-cleft, bilabiate; under side 
of the tube perforated with 3 longitudinal fora- 
mina, lower part persistent, calicine. Stamina 
