10 KEY TO PLANTS. 
Stigmas 3. Anthers attached by their 
base. Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely 
dicecious, with a rudimentary ovary in 
the male flowers. Stem leafy. Leaves 
with numerous veins. Flowers panicled. 
Fruit a drupe or berry. Tropics of the 
Old World. Flagellarieae. 
(6) Albumen fleshy or horny. Embryo en- 
closed by it. Ovary 1-celled, with 3 or 
more ovules, or 3-celled, with 2 or more 
ovules in each cell, more rarely with only 
1 ovule, but then stigma 1, or anthers 
attached at their back, or flowers diceci- 
ous, without a rudimentary ovary. 18. 
18 (a) Style simple with 3 thread-like stigmas, 
more rarely simple with 1 stigma or 3- 
partite, in this case only 1 ovule in each 
cell of the ovary. Leaves linear, parallel- 
veined, sometimes reduced to sheaths. 
Perianth more or less scarious. Fruit 
capsular. Juncaceae. 
(>) Style simple, with 3 short or broad stigmas, 
or with 1 stigma, or 3-partite. Ovules 
in each cell of the ovary 2 or more, 
rarely 1, but then leaves oblong or oval, 
and net-veined. Perianth more or less 
herbaceous. Liliaceae. 
