to the Genera.] XXI.—-MONCCIA, 135 
Base of lip produced as a long spur ...... 925. Vrydagzynea. 
Base of lip saccate but not spurred .............06 926. Zeuxine. 
*Anthers 2, each with only one perfect ~~ ups pany on he column 
remote or contiguous but always discrete, t ollinia 
; po 
2, sometimes 2-partite, attached with or without ‘eiicles to two 
separate glands; leaves flat, membranous; terrestrial herbs [p. 131] 
927. Habenaria. 
Ae ‘Class XXI. MONGCIA. 
Minute annual lenticular or granular floating aquatic hemniet with little 
or no proper vascular pir flowers without perian 
Flowers from chinks in the margin of the flattened ae fronds 
emitting roots; anthers Ramil stamens 1 or 2......... 1013. Lemna. 
- Flowers on the upper surface of the granular frond ; reg anthers 
1-celled, stamen solitary 014. Wolffia. 
a or large plants with well-developed ean iiac system :— 
Inflorescence a spadix subtended by a spathe :—[p. 137] 
}Perianth regular 2-seriate ; flowers on a i branched spadix ; 
leaves tufted at the apex of a usually elongated woody stem ; trees or 
shrubs (palms) ; leaves vowapeneh: siete p. 13 
Leaves twice pinnatisect, th ents very obliquely dimidiate- 
flabelliform; spadix sais fai followed progressively down- 
wards by cosines male and female infrafoliar spadices ; 
stamens many, 986. Caryota. 
Leaves wedi or partially once pinnatisec 
{Spadix interfoliar, — while the oe in ea axil of which 
it is produced is still green; leaves ene pinnatisect, the 
segments with reduplicate ute 36] 
Leaf-segments oblong nat cs toothed; base cuneate 
1-costate; nerves flabellate ; fruit small; stamens 6, free 
te Wallichia. 
Leaf- is EB linear, nerves parallel, fruit lar 
Dwarf palms with prostrate branching ssid ne Baye 
with male ii on lateral catkin-like branches, female i 
a globose terminal head ; fruit a spherical mass of ead 
1-celled and 1-seeded nee carpels ; stamens ere 
pa 
Tall palms with erect unbranched stem; spadix with 
— female flowers alone or between two males near 
ases and with close-set eto towards the tips of the 
Paine fruit a large ovoid, terete or sub-3-gonous nut 
with a fibrous husk ; stamens 6, free... ..- pert .989. Cocos, 
