ANALYTICAL TABLES. 



BEING A 



Synopsis of the Genera described in this work, according 

 to the Linnaean Artificial System. 



WITH REFERENCES TO THE NATURAL ORDERS AND PAGE. 



CLASS L MONANDMA.— 1 Stamen. 



Order I. Monogynia. — 1 Pistil. 



* Flowers not glumaceous. 



PA(HS. 



Hippcris. — Perianth adherent to the ovary, the border entire. Stamen insert- 

 ed on the edge of the calyx. — Aquatics with entire leaves in whorls, and 

 minute flowers, US 



Cakxa. — Perianth unequal, scarcely lip-shad: d. Stamens petaloid, only one 

 ■with half an anther on its edge. — Herbaceous tropical plants with trans- 

 verse parallel veined leaves and ahoivy flovjers. Z6± 



* * Flowers glumaceous (Sedges). 



Hemicarpha. — Perianth none. Style 2-cleft. — Low tufted annuals with bri&tlt- 



like leaves at the base, and many-flowered spikes. 89T: 



Species of Cyperus, Eriophorus, and Fimbrittylis. Cyperacece* 396 



Order IT. Digynia. — 2 Styles or sessile stigmas. 



* Flowers not glumaceous. 



Galliteiche. — Filaments slender. Styles 2, awl-shaped. Fruit 4-lobed, ■t-oelled, 



naked. — Leaves opposite, entire. 314 



Slitum. — Calyx 3 to 5-parted, becoming juicy and berry-like in fruit. — Leaves 



triangular or halbert-shaped, sinuate-toothed. 26© 



* * 



Flowers glumaceous (Grasses). 



Gnou.— Spikelets 1-flowered, in a large compound terminal panicle. Stamen 



opposite the 1-nerved upper palete. 411 



Umola.— Spikelets several -flowered, very flat, coriaceous. — Tuffod from, «rt€j»- 



ing rootsioc.'.s. 421 



Ahkropogox.— Spikelets l}£flowered, in pairs. Panicle* silky. 431 



