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commonly fugacious, sessile or p icellated, in terminal Spikes Pani- 
cles or Fascicles ; Bractes 1 2 3 to eac lower, spathaceous, marces- 
cent. LziwNÉ inserts Ensate after his T'rinetaloidew, influenced no 
doubt by their Bractes and prevalence of the ternary number in some 
part or other; but I think with the whole French School down from 
Prodromus by inverting A. L. pr Jussrgv's rem leav es Hæmodoreæ 
naturall 
red Juice, unctuous Pubescence, differen orescence, sen Pe- 
tals the inner in the 3-androus Genera staminigerous, and lastly 
their anomalous Seeds. Mr. J. B. GAwLER, who has now taken the 
name of Ker, though he wrote very diffusely upon Ensate in the 
Annals of Botany, makes no mention there of the Mellifero rous Organs, 
or that the insertion of pega Stamina is confined to the Outer Petals, 
nor does he say a word in any of ns subsequent works about the 
affinity of the Class. I divide it into 6 Orders which are abundantly 
characterized by differences in their Foliage, Inflorescence, Petals, 
and Stigmata. 
Ord. Y. Graprorgx. 
Pericarpium co riaceum, membranaceum m, cartilagineumve. Petala 
in Tubum fauce varie dilatatum, aut rarius in Modiolum coalita ; 
Limb 
dein in um nune resu vel irregularem, et 
mirá iâ ue em Spied, libera, in fatiscendo nun- 
quam involuta vel convoluta, cito . Nectaria varie 
Filamenta 3, ucis inserta, dum irregularia plus minus oblique. 
Anthere secundæ vel trifariæ. Stylus 1. Stigmata 3, simplicia vel 
2-fida, absque Auriculis vel Operculo nuda. Semina sæpius nume- 
rosa, sessilia sed in n multis Chorda ad Chalazam decurrens ubi eadunt 
