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3-celled, and 3-valved, or baccate and 1-3- 

 seeded. Principally Cape species, but occur 

 also in Europe, the East and West Indies, 

 South America, and Australia. Some possess 

 poisonous qualities. Yield many garden- 

 flowers, as the Narcissus, Daffodil, Snow- 

 drop ; the Agave or American Aloe, is also a 

 member. (Amaryllidece, R Brown.) 



3. FAMILY. Hypoxids (Hypoxidacese). Herbs ; 



tuberous or fibrous-rooted ; leaves radical, 

 plicate ; scapes simple or branched ; perianth 

 petaloid, usually 6-partite ; stamens six ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-celled ; ovary 3-celled ; 

 ovules ; style simple ; stigma 3-lobed ; 

 fruit indehiscent, dry or berried, 1-2- 3-celled. 

 Natives of tropical and warm countries. 



4. FAMILY. Blood-roots (Hsemodoracese). Herbs, 



fibrous-rooted ; leaves equitant, distichous ; 

 perianth 6-cleft, petaloid, tubular, more or less 

 woolly ; stamens three or six ; anthers introrse ; 

 ovary 1- 3-celled ; ovules one, two, or many ; 

 style simple ; stigma undivided ; fruit capsu- 

 lar, 3-valved or indehiscent ; radicle remote 

 from the hilum, which is naked. Occur in 

 North and South America, at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and in Australia. Named from 

 the red colour of the roots. 



5. FAMILY. Taccads (Taccacese). Herbs, tuberous; 



leaves radical, stalked ; flowers on the top of 

 a simple taper or angular furrowed scape, 

 umbellate, involucrate ; perianth with a cy- 



