188 
BENGAL PLANTS. 
**Leaves broadly tlabellate-plicate or pinnatisect ; trees ore 
or climbing shrubs; embryo situated in a small pit near 
Periphery of the albumen; flowers in spadices [ p. 187] 
CXLII. P 
§Perianth with an herbaceous outer and a rather larger pecs 
or petaloid inner series of segments; ovary apocarpous; albumen | | 
embryo horseshoe-shaped; aquatic erect herbs with conspicuous 
§Perianth absent or reduced to scales or bristles; or if present and 
herbaceous or hyali 
line (Narapacex often) the segments either ed 
regularly 3-merously 2-seriate or if, rarely, 6 in 2 rows then aquatic | 
erect weeds with small flowers disposed in simple racemes or spikes 
and with a fleshy embryo that is not horseshoe-shaped :—[p. Be pe 
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nake 
Terrestrial 
aquatic tixed or rarely free floating herbs, the flowers in q 
Sudtended by a usually much modified spathe :— oe 
Trees or erect or scandent shrubs with flowers dicciov 
Shed iors st * andi <i 
racemes, or if flowers solitary then not placed in the axils of modified 
glumaceous bracts :— [p- 189 
Aquatic or marsh plants; flowers small not in spadices pis 
Spadices these not covered by spathes or spathaceous bracts — _ 
Freely floating minute stemless lenticular or granular sails 3 
rootless or with 1 or more rootlets that do not enter ti me 
perianth 0; flowers minute from the margin or upper side ae 
frond ; albumen present or 0... CXLVI. pa 
Fixed herbs with erect seapigerous or elongated floating - 
submerged leafy stems rising from a fixed usually ereepimé 
stock ; perianth present or absent :— 
albumen 0, embryo large fleshy not horseshoe-shaped 
CXLVII. Naiadace® 
Perianth of filiform bristles or membranous scales; ae 
d or 1-bracteate at the bade's.. Pe4 CXLIV. Ty ine < 
or epiphytic plants or if (some ARorDEz) iced 
