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II' i baceoua plants or shrubs, always p< rennial, occurring :ill ovi 

 theven cold< b, or those where everlasting drj ^ns;intempej 



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 i. ii ti-ii - (epiphj !■ 

 t.i Btoni - I b< ii 

 fasciculated, fl< «h} or i 

 and these filled «itli starch, 

 nodules of bassorin. Stem noi . 

 and animal. 



forming a rhizome, or joii 

 Leaves flat, i 

 sheathing, membi 

 hard, never lobed, 

 by cartilaginous teeth, then 

 almost never slightly reticu 



* . irregular, extremi \y variable in form, 

 solitary, clustered, s] 

 panicled, always support* d 

 bract : very often most gratefully 





Bometimes fetid, and not un- 

 frequently Bcentlesa Peri 

 anth adherent, variable, her- 

 baceous or coloured, mem- 

 branous or fleshy, permanent 

 and \\ ithering, or deciduous : 

 it- partearrangi d in two row a, 

 rarely in 3, free or adhering 

 in various ways ; very often 

 reeupinabe in consequence of 

 a twist in the ovary, 

 pals (which, morphologically 

 Bpeaking, are petals) 3, equal 

 at the base, or variously ex- 

 tended or expanded the] 

 the two lateral standing in front when thi 





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