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CONSPECTUS OF ENDOGENOUS OKDEKS. 



I. Perianth 6 -divided : stamens generally 6, but sometimes 

 3, either with or without staminodes. 



ORDER 114. AMARYLLIDEJ;. Bulbous plants with radical 



leaves. 

 ORDER 115. TACCACE.E. A herb with tuberous roots and 



large pinnatifid leaves. 

 ORDER 116. DIOSCORACEJ]. Twiners with unisexual flowers : 



leaves reticulated. 

 ORDER 117. LILIACE-E. Herbs: fruit a 3-celled capsule or 



berry. 



Tribe Smilaceae has reticulated leaves. 

 Tribe Asparagese has no real leaves, but much-divided 



green leaf-like branches. 

 ORDER 118. PONTEDERACEJE. Herbs more or less aquatic, 



flowers from the sheaths of the leaves. 

 ORDER 119. XTRIDE^:. A herb with radical leaves and 



scape of flowers from their sheaths. 

 ORDER 120. COMMELINACE^:. Herbs with flat narrow leaves, 



and flowers from their sheaths or from aggregated 



bracts. 

 ORDER 121. FLAGELLARIE^;. A large climber with small 



panicled flowers. 

 ORDER 122. PALME JB. Unbranched trees or shrubs with 



very large leaves collected at the top : flowers enclosed 



in spathes. 

 ORDER 126. ALISMACE^;. Marsh or water plants with 



conspicuous flowers. 



II. Perianth often but not always 6 -divided, stamens not 

 usually 6. 



ORDER 110. HYDROCHARIDE^:. Aquatic herbs, flowers uni- 

 sexual in a spathe : stamens various. 



ORDER 111. BURMANNIAOE^;. Herbs with bracted flowers : 

 stamens 3. 



ORDER 113. SCITAMINE^:. Flowers irregular with petal-like 

 bracts, stamen one with petaloid staminodes, leaves pin- 

 nately nerved from the midrib. 



