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alliance Narcissales should be dropped, and the whole hex- 
androus hexapetaloid portion of the monocotyledonous plants 
included under the alliance Liliales, the triandrous under 
Ixiales. But the determination of this, which is a discre- 
tionary point of convenience, should be postponed, till a final 
and satisfactory arrangement of the entire system shall have 
been effected, when it should be made with a view to the 
consistency of the whole. 
Second Division. — CAULESCENT. 
Suborder 1 . LIypoxide^e. — Schistandrous. Operculous, i. e. 
the base of the style forming a prominent portion 
of the ovary. 
§. 1. Hypoxidiformes. — Sepals and petals conformable; 
leaves plicate. There is a great disposition to 
hairiness of the exterior of the germen and flower 
in this section. 
Weldenia ? — If truly an epigynous hexapetaloid 
flower depauperated, or in an imperfect state, 
which I scarcely believe ; it rests on the report 
of Karwinsky, who has omitted to state whether the 
germen is superior or inferior. Perhaps it may be 
allied to Commelina. 
Perianth long-tubed ; tube erect ; limb patent, 
tripartite; (whether the sepals or the petals are abor- 
tive, is not stated) filaments inserted at the mouth 
of the tube, the alternate shorter ; anthers erect, 
affixed at the base between the cells; style filiform, 
erect ; stigma triangularly capitate. 
1. Candida. — Schult. fil. in Bot. Zeit. 1829. p. 1. 1. 1. 
4. Curculigo. — Germen erect, bracteate, nearly subterra- 
neous ; tube adhering to the style, cylindrical 
upwards ; limb regular, patent ; filaments short, 
inserted in the mouth of the tube ; anthers distant, 
erect; seeds black, pendant by a thick white chord 
filling a large indenture between the umbilicus and 
foramen; umbilicus conspicuously beaked, proceeding 
from the side. (Leaves broadest near the base ?) 
1. Orchioides. Bot. Mag. 27. 1076. Roxb. Cor. 1. 13. — 
2. Plicata. Jacq. H. Sch. 1. 88. — var . glabra. 
Bot. Reg. 4. 345. Forbesia plicata. Ecklon topog. 
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