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styled by Linneeus, the Princes of the Vegetable Kingdom. They usually 
rise with a simple, rarely branched trunk, sometimes to the height of over 
100 feet, bearing on its summit a crown of large, pinnate or flabelliform, 
branch-like leaves, which are sometimes 10-20 feet long. Only two of this 
Order come within the limits of our Flora. 
iranigsimple:)leayes pinnate.) . 2. .«) . » . + « J. (PHOINEX. 
Trunk branched ; leaves palmate-flabelliform. . . . . 2. HypHm@NE. 
1. PHQANIX, Linn. 
Flowers diccious, sessile on a branching spadix, girt with a 
simple spathe. Outer perianth urceolate, 3-toothed ; inner 3- 
parted. Stamens 6 or 3; filaments very short, scarcely any ; 
anthers linear. Female: Ovary of 3, separate carpels, of 
which only one matures ; stigmas hooked. Drupe 1-seeded ; 
seed with a longitudinal furrow on one side. Embryo dorsal. 
—Endl. Gen. n. 1763. 
The well-known Date-Palms.—The only Cape species, P. reclinata, is a 
graceful Palm, with erect or reclining stems, and pinnate leaves. It grows 
near the coast in the Eastern district, and comes as far west as “‘ George.” 
2. HYPHZAENE, Gertn. 
Flowers dicecious, on a distichously-branched, imperfectly 
vaginate spadix. Outer and inner perianth both 3-parted. 
Stamens 6; filaments free; anthers linear, basifixed. Fe- 
male: Staminodia 6, rudimentary. Ovary 3- rarely 2-celled ; 
stigmas 3-2, sessile. Drupe abortively simple or 2-3-lobed, 
with a fibrous sarcocarp and ligneous putamen. Albumen 
horny, hollow. Embryo vertical.—Zndl. Gen. n. 1748. 
The famous Doum Palm, or “ Gingerbread-nut Tree” of Nubia, is the 
type of the genus ; a second species has recently been observed to the north 
of Natal. Trunk in age repeatedly forked. Leaves palmate-flabelliform. 
Orper CXXXIII. LILIACEA., 
Flowers bisexual, regular or subirregular. Perianth corol- 
loid, deciduous or marcescent-persistent, 6-parted or lobed ; 
segments 2-seriate, separate or united in a tube or bell-shaped 
corolla, with a 6-fid limb, frequently secreting honey at base. 
Stamens 6, hypogynous or perigynous, rarely by abortion 
fewer ; occasionally a corona or row of barren stamens exterior 
to the fertile ones. Anthers introrse, erect or versatile, 2- 
celled. Ovary more or less perfectly 3-celled ; ovules either 
solitary, few or many ; style single; stigma simple or rarely 
3-parted. Fruit capsular, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds with membranous, crustaceous or rarely fleshy skins ; 
albumen fleshy, copious ; embryo axile.-—A vast Order, of very 
