MONQCOTYLEDONES. 
Plants having hut one seed-lobe ; found also to increase their 
bidk by deposits in the centre, without the distinction of bark, 
pith, wood, arid medullary rays. 
1. SPADICEOUS. — Having a spadix ; that is, flowers not 
petaloid, set round a stalk. 
Involucrate. — Having an involucre below. 
Ligneous. — Flower-stem woody. 
( Palmales . Lindley.) 
Palmaceae. — Spadix more loose or branched ; 1-3-seeded. 
( Pandales . Lindl.) 
Cyclanthaceae. — Flowers spirally arranged ; many-seeded. 
Pandanaceae. — Flowers closely set; many-seeded. 
§§. Succulent .* — Flower-stem juicy. 
(Arales. Lindl.) 
Araceae. — Flowers uni-sexual, petals wanting ; excluding 
such aroid plants as have not an involucre. 
§. Naked. — Wanting the involucre. 
( Typ kales . Lindl.) 
Typhaceae. — Flowers uni-sexual ; sepals three or more, 
sometimes a bundle of hairs ; petals wanting. 
(Piperales. Lindl.) 
Piperaceae. — Flowers hermaphrodite. If retained amongst 
monocotyledones, but removed by Dr. Lindley to dicoty- 
ledones. Both these orders are hypogynous. 
2. SUBSPADICEOUS. — Having a tendency to the form 
of an imperfect spadix, either by an inferior in- 
volucre or close-set spike, or flowers neither co- 
rolliform nor glumaceous. 
§. Subcorolliform. — Having a tendency to a petaloid 
appearance in the flowers. 
§§. Epigynous. — Having the stamens above the germen. 
( Narcissales . Lindl.) 
Taccaceae. — An anomalous race, with an Amaryllidaceous 
scape, a perianth approaching to that of Tupistra, a tuber 
and foliage approaching to Arum. 
