1052 BENGAL PLANTS. [Ananassa. 
Stamens 6; 8 alternate with petals, filaments free or slightly 
adnate by their edges to the petals; 3 opposite and adnate below 
to the petals; anthers linear. Carpels 3, connate in an inferior, 
3-celled, fleshy ovary, embedded in the thick rachis ; ovules in 
each cell several, horizontal or pendulous ; style filiform ; stigmas 
ear. Fruit fleshy, embedded in the fleshy receptacle, the whole 
forming with the bracts, rachis, and receptacles a cone-like, fleshy 
syncarp. Seeds few, ovoid or oblong, somewhat compressed ; 
testa ee coriaceous; embryo minute, partially embedded in 
the album 
2176. acs sativa Linn.; E. D. A. 1045. 
Sparingly planted. 
A tufted, a herb, with a dense, capitate, spiral 
inflorescence. Vernac, Ananas. The Pine-Apple. 
Order CXXX. HE MODORACEA. 
Perennial herbs, glabrous or finely woolly; rootstock short, 
tuberous, with usually fascicled ane ne Leaves usually 
radical, often distichous, narrow - or subensiform, with 
equitant npn ; nerves parallel. geet hermaphrodite, 
regular or nearl in terminal spikes, racemes, or panicles. 
y 80, 
Perianth ‘eee persistent, 2-seriate; lobes 6, imbricate or 
induplicate-valvate. Stamens 6, opposite or more or less adnate 
o the perianth-lobes, all perfect or 1-3 reduced to staminodes, oF 
only 3 opposite inner perianth-lobes ; filaments filiform, dis- 
crete or connate in g below; anthers ovate, oblong, or linear, 
often sagittate, ners or ages tN dehiscence longitudinal or rarely 
porous. Carpels 3, connate in a perfectly or ultimately, . 
absorption of septa, imperfectly 8-celled ovary, inferior, 
inferior, or almost superior, with only the wide base adnate to the 
perianth ; ovules 1 or more, attached to inner foe of cells ; style 
filiform, rarely short or obsolete; stigma simple or 3- notched. 
Seeds in each cell many, few, or single, sometimes solitary in 
whole fruit, globose, oblong, angular, or flattened ; embryo small, 
only partially enclosed in the fleshy albumen 
Filaments connate in a ring, closing the mouth of the perianth ; ov@'Y 
