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live, or in some species which are without periantli covered with 

 the inner bracts. Capsule either globose, thick with many cell- 

 rows, straight-valved, or cylindrical of two cell-rows, with con- 

 torted valves, tlie valves being sometimes bifid. Elaters slender, 

 dispiral. 



Subtribe IV. TRIGONANTHE^. 



Plants minute or rather large, from green becoming pale, 

 rarely dull purple or subroseate. Stems most frequently prostrate 

 or procumbent, indefinitely or pinnately ramose, or dichotomous, 

 postical flagella almost bare of leaves, being often superadded. 

 Foliaceous branches lateral or in some occasionally all postical ; 

 those bearing female flowers postical in almost every species, only 

 terminal in a few Ccp/ialozia\ Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, 

 succubous or incubous, varying in form, more or less deeply 

 divided from the frequently broad truncate apex into 2-4 or 

 rarely into 6 teeth or lobes, seldom quite simple; in very few 

 species are they complicate with the postical lobe ; margin gene- 

 rally quite entire, fiat or incurved, never recurved. Stipules 

 either wanting or small; in a few instances not much less in 

 size than the leaves and nearly similar in shape to them. 



Flowers ? standing on a postical branch, very rarely on a 

 lateral l)ranch or terminal on the stem itself; <? monandrous, 

 very rarely diandrous. Female bracts trijugate and tristichous, 

 in a few species distichous. Periantli nearly always long and 

 narrow, trigonous, the third angle postical, rarely 4-6-angled 

 by reason of the other angles being intercalated, all the latter 

 wingless and without teeth ; free both from calyptra and involucre 

 (except that of Kanfia, which instead of a perianth has a pouch 

 grown together on the insides to the calyptra). Calyptra 

 generally small, free, except in Kanfia. Capsule most frequently 

 oblong or cylindrical of a double serie;; of cells (in a few genera 

 there are 4-5 strata of cells), valves straight, twisted in Kantia 

 only. Ehitcrs slender, dispiral. 



