FAM. 39, 40, 41. 39 



I. tripeUl*. Plowers terminal, usually solitary, blue with yellow and purple; 

 lobes crestless. tube shorter than the ovary. 



I. versicolor. Flowers terminal, single or spiked, blue or lilac with white, yel- 

 low or purple; lobes crestless. tube shorter than the ovary. 



I. hexagon*. Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, nearly sessile; violet-blue 

 with white, yellow and purple; lobes crested, tube longer than the ovary. 

 2. Styles each parted into two filiform segments; — rootstock coated bulb-like; 

 narrow, folded, alternate leaves; flowers 1-3 with two fugacious 

 bracts, showy. Pine-woods. Spring and Summer. - - Nemastylis 



If. (Ixia) coelestina. Leaves diminishing upward till bract-like; flowers soli- 

 tary, bright blue; the lobes of the perianth broadest above the middle. 

 2. Styles filiform or mostly united; — stamens united; grass-like herbs 

 with linear leaves; scapes 2-edged or 2-winged. terminated by 

 clusters of blue, white or yellow flowers. - Sisyrinchium, Blue-eyed Crass 



S. Bermudiana. Mostly in dry soil. Spring and Summer. 



Cultivated species in this family are: Crocus, raised from corms, blooming 

 mainly in early Spring; Freesia, blooming in Fall and Winter; Gladiolus, 

 blooming in Summer; the Ixias of early Spring are noted for their wide range 

 of color. 



39. Haemodoraceae, Blood wort Family. 



Herbs with rootstocks; leaves elongated, chiefly basal; 

 flowers perfect in terminal spikes, panicles or cymes; sepals, 

 petals and stamens each 3; ovary inferior, 3 or 1 -celled, 

 style 1 ; fruit a 3-valved capsule, generally with few seeds. 



Gyrotheca (Lachnanthes) tinctoria. Rootstock red; stem corymbosely branched 

 above; leaves basal; flowers yellowish, woolly outside. S.vampy pineland. Spring 

 to FalL 



40. Musaceae Banana Family. 



Tall scapose herbs, commonly perennial by rootstocks 

 or tubers; the very large leaves alternate, with sheathing 

 petioles and the veins parallel, diverging from the midvein; 

 flowers irregular, in clusters, each cluster subtended by a 

 large colored bract; perianth 6-parted, 5 of the segments 

 united and 1 distinct; stamens 3-6, some of them abortive; 

 ovary inferior, 3-celled, styles united; fruit indehiscent, 

 pulpy or dry. Cultivated in many species and varieties. 



Musa Sapientum, Banana. Tall scape, partly sheathed by the leaf-stalks, 

 the pink or purple flowers in a nodding spike; perianth of 2 unequal leaves, the lower 

 5-toothed; filaments 6, anthers 5. each 2-celled; fruits in a huge cluster, seeds abor- 

 Cultivated for ornament. 



41. Alpiniaceae, Ginger Family. 



Caulescent herbs with horizontal rootstocks; flowers 

 in panicles sometimes spike-like; calyx 3-lobed; petals 



