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Oki>kb XL1II. TAI i I 



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Duonobu Nor •' I . ■' ■ 



Large perennial herbs, with :i tuberous root. Leaves aU i 

 or p iatifid, the * pni nts pinnatifid and entire, with curv< d paralli I . 



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Flowi rs placi i on tlie top • 

 taper or angular furrowed scape, in uml 

 Q , regular, surrounded by undi\ id< 

 forming an involucre. Perianth adhen 

 withacj lindrical ribbed tube; limb , 

 the petals ratht r the long st, p 

 . inserted into thi 

 the perianth, distinct ; filami 

 dilated, petaloid, hooded at tl 

 then inserted below the poiuts 

 filaments in their concavity, 2-celk i. 



Is distinct ( tvarj 

 nate carpels, l-celled, <-r half ■ 

 ."• parietal f •< -1^ s] 

 ascending nn<l anatropal, i>r horizontal and amphitropal ; 

 *•< •■m:tt< ■ at the base, radiating, 2-lobed. Pericarp berried, indehiscent, 1-celli 

 ."--<•. il«-<l, many-seeded. Seeds lunate or somewhat ovate, Btriated. Albumen : : 

 Embryo placed inside the albumen in the region of the hilum, or remote from it. 



Personally I have had no opportunity of examining critically the plants which • 

 \">-r this small Order. They are in some respects like Arads, in othen 

 worts (Tacca hsvis) ; but certainly have nothing to do with Dicotyledons Bhu 

 tin' following remarks upon Tacea. E ■■■■■■. I. 82 ■ 

 type of a new family between Vracese and Axistolochia die former it a 



closest in habit, especially in the leaves, but it i^ verj diffi 



structure of the parts of fructification. For ii -|" cii - • i b 



perianth, properly so called, to be found ; what we have the custom 



Dracontium and others, is nothing but scales, and not • 



perianth is, moreover, superior in Tacca. By this superior periantli it 



Bjistoloduacese i- evident ; but from those t<"> Tacca diffi rs in I 



stamens, which are nol as in thai Order adherent i" the pistil with I 



outwards, but are placed on the perianth itself with the anthers tui i 



Tacca it is probable that thi re are several ^* rminating 



bods t>> tin double or triple plumule of Dracontium : hence eml 



be said to be tubers formed in the fruit itself. Brown 



1810) that a relation i- established between \ 



Tacca. See also Agardh's A\ ,245. Formyowi 



t" Birthworts seems bo verj slight as ti> be unworthy ■ 



is with the \raU. or at l<:i-t with th which ar 



name of Orontiacese, of which these seem to be an c] I 



them with Yams, to which they appear to have even l< - 



XCVn.—l. Tacca Integrifolia ; 9. fruit of T. pinna! 

 . <i ; 4. section of its albumen and eml rj 



