Luzula.} PALMACEAE. 449 
the fascicles or single flowers arranged in an irregular umbel or panicle, 
sometimes contracted into a head or spike; the single flowers in the axil 
of a scarious bract with 1 or 2 bracteoles besides. 
About = species with the range of the Order, but chiefly belonging to the northern 
hemispher 
1. L. campestris, DC. — Kunth, Enum. Pl. I1I, 307.— Grass-like, 6—18* 
high. Leaves radical and cauline, linear, flat, ciliate at least near the 
base, or glabrate. Flowers irregularly cymose, contracted into close spike- 
like clusters, the clusters in umbels on peduncles of various lengths 
(1/3 — 11/2‘), ‘ihe majority terminal, a few lateral. Perianth dark brown, 
‘ long, exceeding tuse capsule. Anthers linear, on 
very short filaments. mies ee than the sepals, half as long as the 
linear stigmas. Capsule incompletely septate. Seeds with a conical 
appendage at the base 
igh mountains of Hawaii, Maui! and Kauai, from 3000 f ward. In the plants 
fr bier the higher elevations the leaves and bracts are almost wooly at the pag the 
clusters of flowers compact and mostly subsessile or on short peduncles 
6 var. glabrata, — Leaves and bracts glabrous. Inflorescence more 
open, the clusters of flowers again umbellately expanding. Perianth pale. 
oi okai! 
€ species is capers ated the temperate and cold regions of the entire ops 
hemisphere and ma of the southern, as the Society Islds., New Zealand, Tasman 
and the Cape of Gocd 1 Ho fry 
Orper: LXXXIX. PALMACEAE. 
Perianth dry and calyx-like, of 6 lobes or segments in 2 distinct series, 
contorted or valyate in the bud. Stamens 6, or rarely more, or 3 only. 
Anthers en 2-celled. Pistil usually of 3 cavenlc free, or cio into 
a 3-celled ovary. Ovules solitary, or rarely 2-in each cell, erect. Sti 
3, usually pet undivided. Fruit either a 3-celled or 1- Sai drupe 
or berry, or of 3 distinct drupes or berries. Seed erect, or laterally 
attached. Embryo small, in a cavity near the outside of a hard albumen. 
— Stems woody, sal simple and often attaining a great height. Leaves 
large, usually at the summit of the stem, folded in the bud and pinnately 
or palmately het Flowers usually sessile, in simple or paniculate 
spikes (the whole inflorescence called a spadix), enclosed when young in 
large sheathing bracts ESP spathes, and usually with 3 small bracts or 
' bracteoles under each flow 
large tropical Order preg a Ne ook L oprigubagien species in the warmer parts of 
the northern and southern tem mpera 
The number of cultivated 7% the most prevailing ones being the 
Royal feng Oreodoxa sents, ae the Date — ag ae a dactyisera 
Leaves fan-shaped, peas Pritchardia. 
pets pinna ate ; z : - Coe 
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