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ORDER CLXIX. STTRMANNIACE^. 



Perianth tubular, adhering, 6-toothed, three inner teeth 

 shialler, sometimes the outer ones winged or keeled a.t the 

 back: stamens 3, inserted in the tube opposite the petals: 

 anthers sessile, 2 -celled, opening transversely: connectivum 

 2-lobed, fleshy: ovary adherent, 1 — 3-celled, with three 

 simple and parietal, or double and axile placentae: ovules 

 very numerous : capsule surmounted by the persistent calyx, 

 1 — 3-celled, dehiscing vertically or horizontally, or indehis- 

 cent, or by a single cleft into a boat-shaped pericarp : seeds 

 numerous, very small: testa loose or tight: albumen none. — 

 Herbaceous plants : leaves tufted, radical, or wanting : stem 

 slender, naked : flowers terminal, sessile upon a 2 — 3-branched 

 rachis, or solitary. 



GENUS I. BTJEMANNIA. 



Trlandria Monogynla. Sex-. Sysu 



Deriv. Named in honour of J. D. Burmann, a famous Dutch 

 botanist and author. 



Gen. Ckae. Tube of the perianth connate with the ovary, 

 tapering or 3-winged, limb 6-cleft : stamens opposite the inner 

 segments of the perianth : ovary 3-celled : style filiform, stigraas 3, 

 globose, dilated or 2-lobed: capsule 3-ceUed incompletely locuU- 

 cidally 3-valved at the apex : seeds fusiform, slightly striated. 



(1) B. TRirLOEA. fRoxb.j 



Ident. Eoxb. flor. Ind. II. 117.— Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 271. 



Spec. Chae. Mowers 1 — 3 in a terminal head: scape 4 — 6 

 inches, filiform, quadrangular with 3 — 4-remote stem-clasping 

 pointed bracts : flowers minute, purple : wings of the perianth 

 half-oval. 



At the hot-springs, near Mahar. 



ORDER CLXZ. MUSACE^. 



Flowers spathaceous : perianth 6-parted, adherent, petaloid, 

 in two rows, irregular : stamens 6, inserted on the middle of 



