ANALYSIS OF THE GENERA. 67 
ORDER XCI, MELANCTHACEA.—Browny. 
Perianth inferior, coloured in six pieces, or united at the base into 
a tube, the segments generally involute in estivation. Stamens six. 
Anthers mostly turned outwards. Ovary three celled, many seeded. 
Style trifid, or three parted. Stigmas undivided. Capsule generally 
divisible into three pieces, sometimes with a loculicidal dehiscence. 
Seeds with a membranous testa. Albumen dense, fleshy.—Herbs 
with fibrous or fascicled roots. Rhizoma sometimes fleshy. Leaves 
sheathing at the base, with parallel veins. Flowers either rising from 
under the surface of the ground, or arranged upon tall leafy stems in 
large panicles, or disposed in spikes or racemes upon a naked scape. 
GENERA. 
Perianth funnel-shaped, with a very long 
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Perianth of six pieces, spreading............ ToFImELDIA, v. 2. p. 532. 
ORDER XCII. RESTIACEA.—Browy. 
Perianth inferior, two to six parted, seldom wanting. Stamens 
two to six, when they are from two to three in number and attached 
to a perianth of four or six divisions they are then opposite the inner 
segments. Anthers usually one celled. Ovarg one or more celled, 
cells single seeded, pendulous. Fruit capsular, or nut-like. Seed 
inverted. Albumen of the same figure as the seed. Embryo len- 
ticular on the outside of the albumen at the end of the seed, which is 
most remote from the hilum.—Herbaceous plants or undershrubs. 
Leaves simple, narrow. or none. Culm naked, or more usually pro 
tected by sheaths, which are slit, and have equitant margins. Flowers 
generally aggregate, in sptkes or heads, separated by bracts, and most 
Frequently unisexual. 
GENERA. 
Blowers capitate ....sscesssssescsseeseesseess LURIOCAULON, V. 8. p. 1200. 
ORDER XCIII, JUNCEZ.—De Cano. 
Flowers perfect, or unisexual. Perianth free, inferior, six-partite, 
more or less glumaceous. Stamens six, inserted into the base of the 
segments, sometimes three, and these opposite the external seg- 
ments. Anthers two celled. Ovary one or three celled, one or many 
seeded, or one celled and three seeded. Style single. Stigmas 
generally three, sometimes only one. Fruit capsular, with three 
valves, which have the dissepiment in their middle, sometimes desti- 
tute of valves, and one seeded by abortion. Seeds with the albumen 
