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CLass | 2. MONOCOTYLEDONS. 
Orpver 1. LILIACEA. | ; 
Herss, rarely shrubs or trees, sometimes scandent. Flowers usually bi: 
perianth inferior, six-leaved, free or coherent ; stamens, six, free or epiph 
anthers opening inwards; ovary superior, Hinges or, rarely, ee 
long or short; stigma three-lobed ; ovules, one or more in each cell. ] 
three-celled Hees: valved capsule, era beaoue and coriaceous, or a pace Ve. 
to three-celled; seeds few or many, globose, flattened or angled, end 
fleshy, embryo dele 
GENUS I. CORDYLINE, Commeerson. 
Trees or shrubs, stem sometimes absent. Leaves alternate, with bre 
bases, crowded at the ends of the branches, mid-rib prominent or ol 
Piewers on much-branched panicles: perianth campanulate, spreading 
leaved, cohering at the base; stamens epiphyllous; ovary superior, three-ce 
style short, simple; eae three-lobed ; ovules numerous. Fruit, a | 
globose or compressed, three-celled, one or many-seeded ; seeds angular, 
convex at the back; pedicels, three-bracteate. | ey 
