ORDERS OF PLANTS. 
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Sub-Class IIJ.—Florideae Hypogynae. 
1. Petals coloured. 
Fruit entire, 3-celled (rarely 1-celled) ; placentas axillary ; 
sepals generally petaloid ; stamens 6, anthers opening 
by longitudinal slits, rarely by pores; stigma 3- 
lobed or entire; embryo within the albumen 
Fruit entire, 1-celled, or imperfectly 3-celled; placentas 
3, parietal; petals connate; fertile stamens 3 opposite 
the petals, sterile ones 3, bearded; stigmas 3 
Fruit entire, 3-celled; sepals 3, herbaceous; petals 3, 
delicate, spreading; style and stigma simple 
Fruit consisting of distinct fruitlets; petals white, very 
deciduous; seeds exalbuminous a 
11. Petals sepal-like. 
Herbs with grass- or rush-like leaves; no spathe; style 
with 3 linear branches; fruit capsular i 
Arborescent, trunks simple with a crown of large pinnate 
leaves; young inflorescence enclosed in a spathe 
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Liliaceae 
Xyrideae 
Commelineae 
Alismaceae 
Juneaceae 
Palmae 
1. Sepals and petals reduced to scales or none. 
Flowers in dense elongated spikes, the upper ones male, 
the lower female; sepals and petals pappus-like; 
tall semi-aquatic herbs with very long leaves 
Aquatic, rarely terrestrial herbs; flowers solitary or 
clustered; fruit consisting of distinct or connate 
fruitlets 
Floating plants consisting of minute green scale-like 
fronds without stem or leaves; flowers reduced to 
an anther and an ovary 
Iv. Sepals and petals bract-like, rarely absent ; 
outside the albumen; seed pendulous. 
Leaves often rudimentary, rigid or reduced to sheathing 
scales; male and female flowers mostly in separate 
plants; sepals and petals 3 or less; fruit 1- to 3- 
celled; rush- or sedge-like plants 
Sub-Class Ili.—Glumiferae. 
Clasping leaf-stalks tubular, with connate margins; stems 
solid, without nodes, often angular; floral bracts 
solitary; floral segments none or of small hypogynous 
scales or bristles ; style 1, or 2- or 3-cleft ; stamens 3 
to 12 ; wie i 
Typhaceae: 
Fluviales 
Lemnaceae: 
embryo 
Restiaceae 
Cyperaceae: 
