63 2 PH A NER OGA MS. 
Order 6. Enantioblastae. Flowers in crowded (4) cymose inflorescences, 
inconspicuous (i, 2), or conspicuous (3, 4), pentacyclic, and usually trimerous (in 
(r, 2) often dimerous) ; perianth-whorls glumaceous in (i, 2), developed into calyx 
and corolla in (3, 4); fruit a superior bi- or trilocular capsule with loculicidal 
dehiscence; ovule orthotropous, and the embryo {ßXäa-rr}) therefore opposite (euav- 
Tios) the base of the seed (hilum). Plants with grass-like (1-3) or succulent habit (4). 
Families: i. Restiaceae. 
2. Eriocauloneae. ' 
3. Xyridese. 
4. Commelynaceae. 
SERIES III.— COROLLIFLOR^. 
Both the perianth-whorls conspicuous, usually large and petaloid ; the two staminal 
whorls completely developed or partially wanting by abortion, and then replaced by 
staminodes ; one carpellary whorl ; the five whorls, with few exceptions, trimerous. 
Order 7. LiliiflorsB. Inflorescence very various, racemose or cymose; the 
large flowers sometimes single. Flowers pentacyclic and trimerous, except a few 
cases where they are dimerous, tetramerous, or even pentamerous; in (3) the 
inner staminal whorl is wanting; perianth-whorls similar, in (i) inconspicuous 
and membranous, but usually petaloid (2, 3, 5-8) and often large ; sometimes all 
the six leaves are coherent into a tube (6 and elsewhere), often with epipetalous 
and episepalous stamens; ovary superior in (i, 2), inferior in the other families, 
usually forming a trilocular capsule or berry ; embryo surrounded by endosperm. 
Plants of very various habit ; with strong woody stems increasing in thickness in 
^loe, Tucca, diXid Draccena (2); more often with underground rhizomes, corms, or 
bulbs, from which spring leafy annual shoots; leaves mostly long and narrow, in (4) 
with a broad lamina and slender stalk. 
F'amilies : r. Juncaceae. 
2. Liliacese. 
3. Irideae, 
4. Dioscoreae. 
5. Taccaceae. 
6. Haemodoraceae. 
7. Pontederiaceae. 
Order 8. AnanasineaB. Flowers consisting of the typical five trimerous whorls; 
outer perianth-whorl developed into calyx, inner one into corolla; ovary trilocular 
and many-seeded, superior or inferior ; embryo by the side of the endosperm ; 
leaves long, often very narrow. 
Family: i, Bromeliaceae. 
Order 9. ScitamineaB. Floral whorls trimerous and zygomorphic ; both 
perianth-whorls or only the inner one (2, 3) petaloid ; of the stamens the pos- 
terior one of the inner whorl is abortive in (i), this alone being fertile in (2, 3) 
(in 3 with only half an anther), while the rest are changed into petaloid staminodes 
(see Figs. 428-430) ; fruit inferior, trilocular, a berry or capsule ; endosperm usually 
absent, but replaced by a copious perisperm. Usually handsome, often very large 
(i) leafy shrubby plants springing from a persistent rhizome, with large leaves, 
generally divided into a broad lamina, leaf-stalk, and sheath. 
Families : r. Musaceae. 
2. Zingiberaceae. 
3. Cannaceae. 
