Victorian Plants. 21 



Calyx-lobes petal-like, often firm. 



Nearly always land-plants ; flowers often large and showy ; 

 petals three, equal ; stamens generally six ; anthers burst- 

 ing on the inner side; fruit longitudinally dehiscent or 

 indehiscent; placentaries nearly always attached to the 

 inner angles of the fruit-cavity; seeds with albument. 

 Figure 116. AmaryUideae. 455 



Calyceae hypogynae. 



94. Petals corollaceous ... ... ... ... ... 95 



Petals sepalaceous or absent ... ... .... ... 98 



95. Flowers symmetrical ... ... ... ... ... 96 



Flowers unsymmetrical ... ... ... ... 97 



96. Fruit usually entire. 



Nearly always land -plants ; flowers often showy ; sepals 

 three, generally petal-like, sometimes coherent towards 

 the base ; petals three, not rarely downward connate 

 with the sepals ; stamens generally six ; fruit longi- 

 tudinally dehiscent or indehiscent ; embryo enclosed in 

 the carnulent or horny albument. Figures 117 to 119. 



Liliaceae. 457 



Fruit consisting of distinct fruitlets. 



Swamp-plants ; sepals and petals always three, the latter 

 conspicuous and fugacious, often white ; seeds without 

 any albument. Figure 121. Alisniaceae. 480 



97. Anther one. 



Usually swamp -plants ; sepals petal-like, two ; petals two ; 

 stamen one ; style one ; stigma undivided ; fruit longi- 

 tudinally dehiscent; embryo enclosed in the somewhat 

 starchy albument. Philhydreae. 481 



Anthers three. 



Almost rush-like plants ; sepals three, one petal-like ; petals 

 three, connate into a corolla ; fertile stamens three ; 

 sterile stamens usually three and bearded ; stigmas 

 three ; fruit one-celled, dehiscent ; placentas three ; em- 

 bryo outside the albument. Figure 122. Xyrideae. 482 



