to the Genera.] I,—MONANDRIA. 23 
Class I. MONANDRIA. 
*Perianth double :—[p. aus 
pei a herbs : 
subcapitate, enti lobed . 598. Hoppea. 
Sige 2, — at the apex of a linear style ...... 599. Canscora. 
Leaves altern: 
Leaves ob 5 woody shrubs ; fruit a legume ...... 279. Bauhinia. 
Leaves entir 
Trees; leaves a seiAhibia a leaf- a and with distinct reticulate 
secondary venation ; fruit a dru 203. M era. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs ; leaves ithe large clasping leaf-sheath, and 
with many parallel nerves passing horizontally or obliquely from 
a midrib but ee adie secondary venation ; fruit neither 
a legume nor 
+Anther 2- oaien go tubular or pereesaiee style slender, 
embraced below the stigma by the anther; placentas many- 
. ovuled; embryo central, straight : ai 24 
Ovary eae _— ntas 3 parietal; corolla-tube long; 
stigma turbinate :— 
Sca 
ape beret owes lilac 929. Mantisia. 
Stem leafy; flowers yellow 930. Globba. 
Ovary 3-celled ; placentas axial :— 
minodes broad :— 
Connective not spurred at the base; corollu-tube long, 
slender :— 
Filament shor 
Connective rol crested ; ee —— 
1. Kempferia. 
Connective not crested ; stigma ail 
. Gastrochilus. 
Filament long, narrow ; a poo narrow, not 
rested ; stigma — soasagaeewes 933. Hedychium. 
Connective spurred a se; corolla-tube funnel- 
ba 
shaped; stigma ne the lips ciliate; bracts forming 
a egies SPike .....eseseeeseeeenerreeeeeewnnene 
La staminodes small or 0, rarely narrow Soa adnate 
to the ag ; corolla-tube cylindric :— 
{Flowers in dense cone-like spikes —{p- 24] 
Anther-cells divaricate on a short oo filament with 
or without a petaloid crest ; stigma small subglobose, 
