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Stem unbranched. 



Leaves lax, grass-like ; umbel singly terminal, with many 

 flowers ; sepals and petals almost alike, quite yellow or 

 outside partly reddish ; style filiform ; stigma minute ; 

 fruitlets very small, one-seeded. T. simplex. 



STYFANDRA. 



1851. Leaves in two rows along the stem and branches. 



Often tall, somewhat woody at last ; branches often 

 somewhat twisted ; leaf-stalks closed ; leaves numerous, 

 broad-linear, acute, somewhat curved, the floral leaves 

 much shortened ; flowers on recurved stalklets, in an 

 often elongated panicle ; sepals and petals acute, always 

 blue ; upper portion of the filaments tumid from yellow 

 densely approximated papillular hairlets, lower portion 

 glabrous ; fruit small, almost ellipsoid ; seeds several or 

 many, nearly ovate -ellipsoid, outside dull-black. 



S. glauca. 

 Leaves nearly all basal. 



Leaves broad-linear, their stalks opened ; floral leaves much 

 shortened ; flowers on straight stalklets, often umbellate - 

 corymbous, occasionally only two together or solitary 

 from their axil ; sepals and petals almost blunt, inside 

 blue or pale-yellowish ; filaments in their whole length 

 beset with yellow extremely short papillular hairlets ; 

 fruit somewhat ellipsoid ; seeds compressed-ellipsoid, 

 outside shining-black. S. caespitosa. 



ARTKROFODXUM. 



1852. Hairlets of stamens quite along and around the upper 



part of the filaments ... ... ... ... 1853 



Hairlets of stamens restricted to two short protrusions 

 from near the base of the anthers ... ... ... 1854 



1853. Comparatively tall. 



Root-fibres elongated, ending in slender tubers ; leaves 

 broad-linear, mostly basal ; panicle often amply branched ; 

 flowers rather small ; stalklets jointed towards their 

 upper end, soon bent downward ; bracts short ; sepals 

 and petals long-persistent, purplish, occasionally quite 

 pale or even whitish, the latter broader and somewhat 

 crisped, about as long as the stamens ; filaments longer 

 than the elliptic anthers, only towards the base glabrous ; 

 fruit small, globular ; seeds several, angular, black 

 outside. A. paniculatum. 



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