SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS, XXXV 
CLIX. 
Lemnace.*. Minute lenticular or sub-globose floating herbs, 
no stem. Flowers minute in a spathe. Stamens i to 2. 
Flowers sessile in heads or spikelets. Bracts glumaceous. 
Perianth lobes glumaceous or 0, very small. 
CLX. 
Eriocaulace.®. Herbs. Flowers unisexual, crowded in 
globose white involucrate heads. Perianth segments 4 or 6 
in 2 whorls, minute. Ovary 3- or 2-celled. 
CLXI. 
Restiace®. Stiff herbs. Flowers usually unisexual in spike- 
lets. Perianth segments 6, glumaceous. Ovary 3-celled. 
CLXII. 
Cyperace®. Herbs. Culms triangular or terete, pithy. 
Flowers uni- or bisexual in spikelets, numerous. Glumes 
(bracts) imbricate. Perianth usually 0 (occasionally 3 to 6 
scales or bristles). 
CLXIII. 
Gramine®. Grasses, herbaceous except the bamboos, culms 
terete, hollow (except Saccharum, etc.). Flowers in spikelets 
usually bisexual. Glumes usually several in a spikelet. 
Perianth 0. Stamens 3 to 6, elongate. Ovary i-celled, 
1-seeded. 
Division : Gymnosperme^. 
Trees, shrubs, climbers. Flowers unisexual in spikes or cones. 
Perianth o, except Gnetacea. Ovary and style o. Ovule nude. 
CLXIV. 
Gnetace®. Trees or lianes. Leaves broad, entire. Perianth 
in male bilobed, in female tubular. Stamens in a column. 
Drupes. 
CLXV. 
Conifers. Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually linear entire. 
Female flowers in a catkin or cone or solitary. Fruit a 
cone, seed winged or when flowers solitary, drupe. 
CLXVI. 
Cycade®. Stem a thick trunk. Leaves pinnate, at top only. 
Inflorescence a large cone. Male scales covered with 1 -celled 
anthers. Female scales usually woolly, toothed with ovules 
in the notches. Drupe large. 
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