III. HYPOXIDE.E. 
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ovules numerous. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds with copious albumen 
and nearly straight embryo. 
A large, chiefly subtropical family, most, abundant in South Africa. 
1. HYPOXIS, Linn. 
Small herbs. Eoot bulbous or tuberous, covered with matted fibres. 
Leaves all radical, enclosed in a membranous sheath at the base. Scapes 
1- or many-flowered. Flowers yellow. — Perianth leaflets nearly equal, yellow. 
Stamens 3 ; anthers erect. Stigmas 3. Capsule 3-celled. Seeds with a 
short beak at the hilum. 
A large South African genus, also found in India, Australia, and America. 
1. El. pusilla, Hook.f. Fl. Tasman, ii. 36. t. 130 B; — II. Tiygromelrica , 
Br. P FI. N. Z. i. 253. Very small, 1-2 in. high. Leaves narrow linear, 
nearly glabrous. Scape shorter than the leaves, 1 -flowered. Perianth gla- 
brous, i in. diam. ; leaflets ovate-lanceolate. Ovary obovate, narrowed below. 
Northern Island: east coast, Ahuriri, Te Hautotara, etc., C.olenso. Middle Island, 
Banks’s Peninsula, Travers. Also found in Tasmania. 
Order IV. PANDANEiE. 
Erect or climbing shrubs or trees, rarely stemless, often branched. Leaves 
usually long, narrow, and spinous-serrate. Spikes or heads often clustered, 
peduncled. — Flowers unisexual. Perianth 0, or rarely of 3 or 4 valvate 
leaflets. Male fl. : stamens numerous ; filaments filiform ; anthers inserted 
by their base, linear, 2-4-celled. Female fl. : ovaries 1 -celled, usually numerous 
and variously connate ; stigma sessile ; ovules solitary or numerous, on parietal 
placentas. Fruit a drupe or berry. Seeds oblong ; albumen fleshy or horny ; 
embryo minute. 
A rather large, tropical Order, containing many arborescent species. 
1. FREYCmETIA, Gaudichaud. 
Climbing shrubs, branched, leafy at the ends of the branches. Leaves 
sheathing at the base, narrow linear-subulate, margins prickly. Spikes fas- 
cicled, terminal, surrounded by bracts at the base of the peduncles. Male fl. : 
bundles of stamens surrounding a rudimentary ovary. Female fl. : several 
ovaries, variously combined, surrounded by imperfect stamens. Seeds nu- 
merous. 
An Asiatic tropical genus of no great extent. 
1. F. Banksii, A. Cunn. ; — Fl. N. Z. i. 237. t. 54 and 55. A lofty 
climber. Leaves 2 ft. long, serrulate, concave, tip 3-gonous. Spike's cylin- 
drical, 3-4 in. long, surrounded by white, fleshy bracts. Anthers 2-celled. 
Fruit an oblong, green spadix, consisting of a multitude of laterally com- 
pressed carpels, about in. long, clavate, truncate ; the lower part soft, 
hollow, the walls of its cavity densely covered with pendulous seeds ; upper 
part thickened, very hard, solid ; the truncate tip crenate, the crenatures 
stigmatiferous. Seeds small, linear-oblong, with a cellular testa. 
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