AUAl.l.- 





Alliance vni. {RALES. — The Aral Alliance. 



Diagnosis. •Vniiij-mii 



and mi embryo m tin a 

 I bore thai we find the Lowest structure known among flowering plant-. Lenma,in 

 Lemnad order, has a lenticular frond, in a cleft of whose edge lurk a cou] 



flowers, one j and tl ther £ , enclosed in a membranous bag. In Pistia, of tin 



Lemnad order, the leav< - are separated from the Btem, the flowers are m 



and the ■ has the beginning of a calyx. In Ambrosinia, also associated with 



complete i» aided Bpatne is formed,and the * is of a more compl 



these plants we pass into the Arads, with naked flowers growing in di 



Bpadixi b, and tli<-_\ 1. ad, on the one hand to the palm-like Screw Pin< -. and on die 



tothesedg] Typhads, bj means of which, especially the former, a communication in 



i fleeted with the princely Palms. By another transition, into the » >rontiac< ve ■■; i 



phrodite hypogynoua Endogens, a passage is formed into Lilyworts on the one hand 



and 1 on the other. In fact, as 1 stated long since, theAral alliance, a 



especially the Araceous order, is the centre of a large system whose rays ] 



remote part- of the vegetable kingdom. Through Lemna this allianci - 



Hydral by way of the Naiads. The v of modern botani 



of Blume (Rumphia 2. 74) are nearly the same plants, except thai Meisner im 



Palms among th< m, to which thi - some objection. 



N mi km. Orders of Arm.-. 

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■.N mi, im a if ■ aly or hairy. .i<. 



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spath*. . I stile. & . Embryo 



F/ovh rt 00, nah d or 



stalked. See< I solid f mitiutc .... 



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