40 FAM. 42, 43, 44, 45. 



3 unequal; stamens and style included; fruit capsular. 

 Cultivated for the flowers. 



Alpinia nutans, Wild ginger-plant. Leaves lily-like; flowers with several colors. 



42. Marantaceae, Arrow-root Family. 



Scapose or caulescent herbs ; flowers in panicles or single. 

 Cultivated for the foliage. 



Maranta arundinacea (Phrynium variegatum). With canna-like leaves varie- 

 gated with white. Other dwarf-forms and species of Calathea are potplants. 



Thalia divaricata. Large banana-like leaves with red midribs. In moist garden 

 soil together with Canna's. 



43. Cannaceae, Canna Family. 



Herbs with erect stems and alternate, thick leaves on 

 sheathing petioles; flowers in terminal spikes, usually with 

 a showy perianth ; sepals 3 ; petals 3 united below ; stamens 

 petal-like, only one with a marginal anther; ovary infer- 

 ior, with petal-like style and marginal stigma; fruit a 3- 

 celled capsule. 



Canna flaccida. Stem mostly simple, leaves oblong-elliptic; spikes with few 

 yellow flowers. Miry swamps. Summer. 



44. Burmanniaceae, Burmannia Family. 



Small herbs with slender stems, scale-like leaves, and 

 regular, perfect flowers; perianth 6-cleft, colored; sta- 

 mens inserted on the tube of the perianth; ovary infer- 

 or, style 1, stigmas 3 or 1; fruit a capsule. 



1. Leaves grass-like or wanting, making the stem look scape-like; ovary 

 3-celled; stigma 3-lobed or capitate, Flatwoods. Summer and 

 Fall. __________ Burmannia 



B. biflora, with simple or forked stem, 1-2 flowers at the end of a branch; per- 

 ianth blue, the outer lobes ovate and erect, the inner linear and incurv- 

 ed. 

 B. capitata, with simple stem and flowers in a terminal cluster; perianth white 

 or pale blue, the outer lobes deltoid, the inner linear and involute. 

 1. Leaves reduced to scales on scape-like stems; ovary 1-celled; stigmas 



3, capitate. Swampy woods, ______ Apteria 



A. aphylla (setacea), with simple or sparingly branched purplish stem and flowers 

 in a nodding raceme; perianth purple or pale; lobes acute, the outer longer 

 than the inner. 



45. Orchidaceae, Orchid Family. 



Herbs from tuberous or fibrous roots, corms or root- 

 stocks; leaves mostly sheathing at the base, sometimes 

 reduced to scales; irregular, perfect flowers, solitary or 



