Order 113. Scitattoinecp, 341 



than a quart being readily obtained by piercing the thick part of the 

 base of the leaf-stalk, and this water is pure and pleasant hence 

 the name." Chambers' s Encyclopaedia. 



"This tree, like, the screw pine of the South Sea Islands, supplied 

 most of the needs of the E. Coast natives : it provides roof, walls, 

 floor, dishes, plates, ppoons, drinking cups, covers for cooking pots, 

 wrappings for parcels, and serves for various other purposes," 

 Diary of a Missionary in Madagascar. 



Manilla hemp is made from a species very like the common plan- 

 tain, but with an uneatable fruit. 



, the Iris family, have no representative in W. India, 

 the very few species given in the Indian Flora belonging to the 

 Himalayas. But one does not like to pass by quite without 

 mention flowers with such associations as the fleur-de-lis and 

 the crocus. The yellow flag, fleur-de-lis, or flower-de-luce, is 

 the royal lily of France, borne for several centuries in the 

 arms of England. 



" Cropped are the flower-de-luces in your arms ; 

 Of England's coat one half is cut away/' King Henry VI. 



" flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river 



Linger to kiss thy feet ; 



flower of song, bloom on, and make for ever 

 The world more fair and sweet." Longfellow. 



ORDER 114. AMARYLLIDEJE. The Amaryllis Family. 



Usually bulbous plants, leaves radical, more or less sword- 

 shaped, scape naked, perianth petaloid, 6-divided, sometimes 

 with a crown at the mouth ; stamens 6 on the perianth, ovary 

 inferior 3-celled, style one, stigma simple or cleft ; fruit usually 

 a 3-valved capsule. 



This beautiful family is well known in Europe by the various 

 species of Narcissus (including the daffodil), and by the snowdrop 

 (Galanthus). The bulbs of mary plants of the order are poisonous. 



TRIBE 1. HYPOXIDE-E. Rootstock tuberous. 



1. HIPOXIS. Perianth sessile on the top of the ovary, 

 persistent, filaments short, anthers erect, style short, stigmas 3. 



2. CURCULIGO. Flowers often unisexual, " perianth usually 

 produced above the ovary as a solid stipes (stalk), bearing the 

 rotate limb." 



TRIBE 2. AMARYLLIDE^E. Rootstock bulbous, flowers from 

 a spathe, umbelled. 



3. CRINUM. Flowers large, spathes 2, bracts linear, perianth 



