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X. IBIDEM. 



EydroUenia MeleagrU. 

 InfioreEcence. 



Crociu. 

 Entile plant cut vertically. 



dissimilar, very rarely largest {Lihertia, Aristea), -usually 

 fugacious, sometimes twisted spirally after flowering, and 

 persistent {Morcea, Pardanthus, Aristea, Galaxia, &c.), 

 aestivation twisted. Stamens 3, epigynous, or inserted 



either on the tube or at tlie base of the outer perianth-segments ; filaments distinct, 

 or more or less monadelphous {Tigridia,Ferraria,Vieusseuxia,&c.); anthers exirorse, 2- 

 celled, basi- or dorsi-fixed and versatile, oblong or ovoid, or sagittate, dehiscence lon- 

 gitudinal. OvAET inferior, or rarely semi-inferior {Witsenia) ; cells 3, many- (rarely 

 few-) ovuled {Aristea) ; style simple ; stigmas 3, either opposite to the stamens {Iris, 

 Morcea, Vieusseuxia) , or alternate {Pardanthus, Sisyrinchiurn, Lihertia, &c.), very often 

 dilated, petaloid, or lamellate, gyrose, contorted {Patersonia, Galaxia, Lihertia, &c.), 

 entire, or 2-3-fid, or 2-labiate {Diplarrhena, Iris); ovules few or many, in 1-2-several 

 series at the inner angle of each cell, usually horizontal, sometimes ascending {Pater- 

 sonia, Galaxia, Orocus, &c.) ; or pendulous {Gladiolus, Watsonia, &c.), anatropous. 

 Capsule 3-gonous, or lobed, or gibbous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved ; valves mem- 

 branous, coriaceous or cartilaginous, semi-septiferous ; placentas nerviform, adnate to 



