632 PHANEROGAMS. 



Order 6. EnantioblastSB. Flowers in crowded (4) cymose inflorescences, 

 inconspicuous (i, 2), or conspicuous (3, 4), pentacyclic, and usually trimerous (in 

 (r, 2) often dimerous) ; perianth-whorls glumaceous in (i, 2), developed into calyx 

 and corolla in (3, 4) ; fruit a superior bi- or trilocular capsule with loculicidal 

 dehiscence ; ovule orthotropous, and the embryo (I^XdcrTrj) therefore opposite (epav- 

 Tios) the base of the seed (hilum). Plants with grass-like (1-3) or succulent habit (4). 

 Families: i. Restiaceae. 



2. Eriocauloneae. 



3. Xyrideae. 



4. Commelynaceae. 



SERIES III.— COROLLIFLORiE. 



Both the perianth-whorls conspicuous, usually large and petaloid ; the two staminal 

 whorls completely developed or partially wanting by abortion, and then replaced by 

 staminodes; one carpellary whorl; the five whorls, with few exceptions, trimerous. 



Order 7. LiliijElGrsB. Inflorescence very various, racemose or cymose; the 

 large flowers sometimes single. Flowers pentacyclic and trimerous, except a few 

 cases where they are dimerous, tetramerous, or even pentamerous; in (3) the 

 inner staminal whorl is wanting; perianth-whorls similar, in (i) inconspicuous 

 and membranous, but usually petaloid (2, 3, 5-8) and often large ; sometimes all 

 the six leaves are coherent into a tube (6 and elsewhere), often with epipetalous 

 and episepalous stamens; ovary superior in (i, 2), inferior in the other families, 

 usually forming a trilocular capsule or berry ; embryo surrounded by endosperm. 

 Plants of very various habit ; with strong woody stems increasing in thickness in 

 yi/oe, Tucca, and Draccena (2) ; more often with underground rhizomes, corms, or 

 bulbs, from which spring leafy annual shoots; leaves mostly long and narrow, in (4) 

 with a broad lamina and slender stalk. 

 Families: r. Juncaceae. 



2. Liliaceae. 



3. Iridese. 



4. Dioscoreae. 



5. Taccaceae. 



6. Haemodoraceae. 



7. Pontederiaceae. 



Order 8. AnanasinesB. Flowers consisting of the typical five trimerous whorls; 

 outer perianth-whorl developed into calyx, inner one into corolla; ovary trilocular 

 and many-seeded, superior or inferior ; embryo by the side of the endosperm ; 

 leaves long, often very narrow. 



Family: i. Bromeliaceae. 



Order 9. Scitamineas. Floral whorls trimerous and zygomorphic ; both 

 perianth-whorls or only the inner one (3, 3) petaloid ; of the stamens the pos- 

 terior one of the inner whorl is abortive in (i), this alone being fertile in (2, 3) 

 (in 3 with only half an anther), while the rest are changed into petaloid staminodes 

 (see Figs. 428-430) ; fruit inferior, trilocular, a berry or capsule ; endosperm usually 

 absent, but replaced by a copious perisperm. Usually handsome, often very large 

 (i) leafy shrubby plants springing from a persistent rhizome, with large leaves, 

 generally divided into a broad lamina, leaf-stalk, and sheath. 

 Families: i. Musaceae. 



2. Zingiberaceae. 



3, Cannaceae. 



