Victorian Plants. 101 





FALB1AE. 



492. Pistils three, disconnected. 



Palms, either tall or dwarf, longeval ; stem unarmed ; leaf- 

 stalks often producing spines along the margin ; general 

 bracts (spathae) large, clasping ; leaves terminal, almost 

 orbicular or fan-shaped ; panicules of spikes from among 

 the leaves; flowers very small; sepals three, disconnected; 

 petals three, contiguous before expansion, connate at the 

 base ; stamens and pistils in the same flowers ; stamens 

 six, disconnected ; one rarely more of the fruitlets de- 

 veloped ; albument of seed laterally hollowed. "Native 

 Fan-Palm." Livistona. 1892 



JUNCEAB. 



493. Fruit three-seeded. 



Plants beset with hairlets ; leaves always grass-like. 



luzula. 1893 



Fruit many-seeded. 



Plants always glabrous; leaves rarely grass-like, often stem- 



like or absent. Figure 123. Juncus. 1894 



ERXOCAUIiEAE. 



494. Anthers two-celled. 



Plants often small and annual ; leaves nearly always 

 basal ; involucrating bracts appressed ; style without 

 appendages. Eriocaulon. 1905 



RESTIACBAE. 



495. Minute bisexual plants, mostly annual ... ... 496 



Rush- or sedge-like plants, nearly always unisexual 

 and perennial ... ... ... ... 498 



496. Flowers in a depressed capitular cluster. 



Cluster surrounded by several transparent bracts ; floral 

 bracts none ; sepals and petals absent ; stamens and 

 pistils placed together ; stamen one ; anther two-celled ; 

 stigmas two or oftener three ; fruit one-celled, dehiscent 

 with three slits. Trithuria. 1906 



Flowers in a single spikelet ... ... ... ... 497 



