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398 CXXI. BURMANNIACEZ. [ Burmannia. 
in a once-forked cyme with 2 to 4 on each branch, all on short slender 
pedicels. Perianth including the wings about 3 m ong and qui 
when in fruit, the outer lobes broad and only ? line long, the 
inner nee Ani minute 3. the flower examined, the dora wings rounded 
at bot at a little distance below the inner lobes. 
Ovary athe bei occupying about half the length of the tube, the 
capsule usually opening by a transversely oblique fissure. 
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstr 
Queensland. Endeavour river, ' Banks iia f Solander. 
This species is scarcely to be distinguished but by z Stal 8 stem and narrow fili- 
form leaves from the B. pusilla, Thw. Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 325, or Gonyanthes pusilla, 
Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 537, t. 38. It is also very closely allied to the 
common Indian B. eclestis, Don, with which Banks and Solan er's specimens are lai 
down on the same sheet i in the roses aint as one species, the leaves aia 
Orper CXXII. IRIDEZE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular. Perianth superior, 
with a short or distinct tube, the limb of 6 petal-like segments, the 9 
inner ones sometimes very small. Stamens 3, inserted at the orifice of 
the tube or base of the outer segments, or rarely (in Campynema) 6 
fertile or (in Diplarrhena) one reduced to a barren filament. -Filame nts 
free or united in a tube. Anther-cells 2, riem erect, opening out- 
wards. Style more or less divided into 3 lobes r bran ches, usually 
stigmatic at the end and sometimes broad wif eee: -like. Ovar 
: l ? : 
chous, sheathing and laterally flattened at the base, produced into a 
linear lamina laterally or vertically not horizontally fattened so that 
the inner edge is towards the stem, the outer edge a continuation of the 
k 
bract of the same node, not in its axil. Perianths in the ens 
'The Order is generally dpi over the sd d dis Old World, more abundant 
ified in South 
Africa. Of the seven genera here d four are endemic, one, Li ibertia, extends 
yer t New Zealand and extratropical South oo the rg orca is a solitary oda tm local 
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