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SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS. 



CXLIV. 



CXLV. 



CXLVI. 



Taccace^. Herbs, tuberous or rhizomed. Flowers regular. 

 Sepals and petals similar. Stamens encluded, hooded, 6. 

 Ovary i -celled. Berry. 



DioscoREACE^. Usually tuberous, unisexual climbers. Sepals 

 and petals small, green. Stamens 6 or 3. Fruit trigonous 

 or 3-winged (one genus erect, flowers larger, bisexual). 



Ovary superior. Flowers petaloid. 



Petals 



CXLVII. 



CXLVIII. 



CXLIX. 



Sepals 

 Fruit 



CL. 



CLI. 



CLII. 



CLIII. 



RoxBURGHiACEiE. Herbs, often scandent. Sepals 

 2. Stamens 4. Ovary i-celled. Capsule bivalved. 



LiLiACEiE. Herbs or shrubs. Sepals 3. Petals 3, similar 

 Ovary 3-celled. Fruit, capsule drupe or berry. 



PoNTEDERiACE^. Aquatic herbs. Flowers regular, 

 and petals 6 similar, blue or pink. Stamens 6 

 capsular. 



Philydrace.^. Herbs. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers irre- 

 gular. Sepals larger than petals, 4. Stamen 1. 



Ovary superior. Sepals herbaceous. Carpels connate. 



Xyride^. Herbs. Leaves radical grassy. Flowers in a head 

 of brown bracts. Sepals glumaceous, 3, 2 or o. Petals 3, 

 yellow, connate below in a tube. 



Commelinace^. Herbs. Sepals herbaceous 3. Petals very 

 thin 3. Stamens 6 (or less). Capsule containing i to few 

 seeds. 



Carpels free. 



Alismace^. Aquatic herbs. Flowers regular. Sepals 3. 

 Petals 3. Carpels several, separate. 



Triuride^e. Minute leafless epiphytes. Flowers unisexual. 

 Sepals and petals 3 to 8, connate at base. Stamens in male 

 2 to 6. Pistils in female numerous, free. 



CLIV. NAiADACEiE. Submerged herbs. Flowers axillary, unisexual. 

 Perianth transparent, tubular. Stamen i. Carpel i. 

 Oblong seed i. 



Ovary superior. Perianth small, rigid or fleshy, not petaloid. 



CLV. FLAGELLARiACEiS;. Herbs or woody climbers. Leaves entire. 

 Stamens 6. 



CLVI. Palmace.;e. Trees or shrubs. Leaves rigid, pinnate or fan- 

 shaped, lobed. Sepals and petals coriaceous or fleshy, 6. 

 Stamens 6 or more. Ovary i- to many-celled, usually 

 3-celled. Fruit a drupe or berry. 



Ovary superior. Sepals and petals none or reduced to scales. 



CLVII. Pandanace^. Shrubs. Leaves stiff, thorny, linear. Flowers 

 unisexual in spadices (elongate or compact spikes), no 

 perianth. Carpels solitary or connate, numerous in heads, 

 woody. 



CLVHI. Aroide.^:. Herbs or shrubby erect or climbing. Leaves not 

 stiff or armed. Spadices solitary in a convolute spathe. 

 Flowers unisexual on the same spike or bisexual. Perianth 

 o, or 3 to 9 scales. 



