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Ordki XLV1I. [RIDACEiE.— Iri 



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Dm '■ Endogen* with ."■ ' 



Herbaceous plants, or very Beldom under-shrubs, usually smootli ; the bail 

 are any, simple. B uberous or fibrous. Leaves equitant and distichous in n 



■ ra. [nnon sconce terminal, in spikes, corymbs, or panicli -. or erowdi I, 

 radical. Bracts spathaceous, the partial ones often scarious; tin sepals i ally 



rath* r herbaceous. Calyx and corolla adherent or coloured, their divisions either i 

 tially cohering, or entirely separate ; sometimes irregular, the 3 ; on- 



ally very short Stamens 3, arising from the base of the sepals; filaments distinct 

 ■ ■"mi. i. ; anthers bursting externally lengthwise, fixed by their hi 

 3-cell d, cells many-seeded ; ovules anatropal ; style 1 ; stigm a petaloid, some- 







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tames 2-lipped. Capsule 3-celled, 3 valved, with 

 attached to the inner angle of the cells, sonu I i 



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