Ve ieee BENGAL PLANTS. [ Artificial | 
oD Class XXII. DICCIA. 
ee arranged on a eeticet subtended by a spathe or by se 
spathaceous bracts: : 
Perianth 2-seriate, 3-merous ; spathes simple 
Trees with ech stems and terminal tufts o leaves ; fruit smoot 
unarmed palms :— 
Leaves Pe orbicular or nearly s0............ 985 
Climbing shrubs with voluble stems and scattered leaves; 
lepidote with shigidia shining, closely imbricate adpressed s¢ 
prickly palm 
Spathes patil on persisting 993. Ge 
Spathes cymbiform or open, deciduous ......... 994. Deemono: 
nth 0 :— 
Peria 
' ‘Trees or shrubs; leaves long, narrow, coriaceous, ‘spinescen 
Flowers not on spadices subtended by a spathe; if sploste: without 
basal involving bract, or if provided with an involving basal bract 
not on spikes :— : 
*Leaves with venation carat parallel; with narrow blades 
* distinct basal sheaths :—[p. 1 
Ovary inferior ; aquatic mein with flowers enclosed in spathes 
_ never spica 
Stems bang, leafy; spathes small, sessile; perianth double: 
nye Bene 
bee eeeeee 
ee superior ; perianth single or irregular or 0 :— 
Submerged creeping aquatic plants with minute axillary flow 
1023. 
Erect species; leaves with a long stem-clasping leat 
flowers arranged in spikelets in the axils of glumes:— 
{Leaves 3-stichous ; a — in front, not on 
— without palese {p. 1 
