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OaDBR XI. IV. II /EMODORA< 



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Diagnosis. N 



lis or G, anthers tu\ 



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i 1 . i bao "lis plants \\itli fibrous perennial roots and permai 

 leaves which are mostly in two ranka Flowers $. Peri- 

 anth usually more or less woolly, adherent ; tli« ■ Bepals and 



petals in many cas< b in 

 ^^<:^ ■•,,. tinguishable and united into 



■\ lindrical) tube. Stan 

 arising from the sepals ai d 

 petals, either '■'• and apposite 

 the petals, or 6 : anthers burst- 

 ing inwardly. Ovary with the 

 cells 1- '-'- or many-set ded, 

 adherent, usually 3 -celled, 



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occasionally l-eelled, with a placenta occupying only :i point 

 Btigtna undivided; ovules amphitropaL Fruit covered bj I 

 capsular, valvular, seldom indehiscent, aomewhat nuc 

 easily separable from the dissepiments, it' any. Seeds ( it!. 

 by the basi or peltate, winged or wrinkled and angular. [ Embi 

 albumen, short, straight, with the radicle usually remi I 

 Tlu' distinction between these and Amaryllids ■ 

 having the regular equitant position of Bepals and i 

 in then: constantly equitant leaves, and in tlu ir flowi re, 

 surface, and a small limb compared with the tube 1 



i \i VIII.— Blancoa canescena I. aflon i 

 Pig. \i'ix.— HsemodcruiD spicatum. I. A I - 



3. an anther. 



