MONOCOTYLEDONS. 13 
Leaves parallel-veined. Inflorescence 
terminal, not umbellate. Flowers her- 
maphrodite. Ovary broadly sessile. 
Style undivided. Haemodoraceae. 
(6) Embryo enclosed by the albumen. 
Inliaceae. 
26 (a) Stamens 1-3.* Flowers hermaphrodite 
or polygamous. 27. 
(b) Stamens 4 or more. 29. 
27 (a) Sepals 2 or 3, the third much larger than 
the other two, and petaloid. Anthers 
attached at their back. Stigmas 3. 
Flowers capitate. Stem erect. Leaves 
radical, linear. Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Corolla gamopetalous. Ovary 1-celled, 
with numerous ovules. A yrideae. 
(b) Sepals 3, equal, or nearly equal, in size. 
Anthers attached at their base. Stigma 
1, entire or lobed. Flowers solitary, 
umbellate, or cymose. 28. 
28 (a) Ovary 1-celled. Flowers solitary or 
umbellate. Stem creeping or floating. 
* Compare Hriocauleae and Restiaceae, the perianth- 
segments of which are sometimes separated in sepals and 
petals by form and connection, but equal in texture and 
colour. Both have unisexual flowers—the former in 
heads, the latter in spikelets. 
