416 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. 
rarely ness eM attached to an axile pipeanis, or. rarely the ovary 
reduced to 1 the abortion of 2 carpels or by the obliteration of 
the erc iri ruit spen a XT E opening loculicidally either 
t di s, rarely succulent and 
indehiscent, or bursting I Seeds albuminous, ri a smal 
or linear embryo, the radicle near to or more or less distant from the 
hilum.—Herbs rs a perennial short or tuberous or A Snir rhizome 
-or bulbous bas o e es werd demie or nearly so, the "sheathing 
ulbous, 
8 bn d lien over the warmer and nace regions of the 
TS Pn Iac mre Nee 
e 
Orchidete in their lepide: (s: sip oblique flowers, from Jridew and Bwrmanniacee m —— 
their centripetal not enint inflorescence and in their stamens, from Taccacee 1 
the majority of Orchi and Burmanniacee in their axile placentum, from Dioso —— 
ride in their he rapt f foor, and in all cases there are other characters either 
less constant or ọf minor i a. | 
Amongst these pion + ge NUM TS, or denies have been s supposed to to be 
distinctly secti cds equitant leaves and f ype tomentose flowers, but 
Hamodorum 
p in some aaron quit t in Vellozie i jha loner included in 
eec. ; shia valli the greater porti ^ 
yllid æ, would exclude Heemodorum itself as being triandrous; but although Iridee 
e almost anive i ous and Amaryllidee hexa , this n 
single or double, if relied upon absolutely, separates the Orders much less natural 
he difference in inflorescence wherever i e rtained, accompanied as 1 
an apparently constant difference in the anthe en " florous, 
be some of the above mentioned characters m alled in 
aking therefore the Amaryllidee h ne Order, it would include be- 
id. i 
sides the five tribes or suborders here enumerated, which are all common to À 
well as the Old World, the — which are con ned to America, except à single 
Afri ican species and the A/stremieriec, all American, in which however the secondary 
orescence appears to be centrifi “gel 
