. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ther considerationof the parietal placentse, orthotro-pal ovules, and hexamerous flowersof the Philesiads, has decided me toseparate them, in the belief thatrecruits may be hereafter foundfor them. Very little is known atout them at present; no one has Pig CXLVIII. analysed their seeds, and it is even doubtful whether the two genera here brought together are so closely alUed as issupposed. For my part, I only know the ovules of Philesia. Lapageria looks like aSmUax bearing the
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ther considerationof the parietal placentse, orthotro-pal ovules, and hexamerous flowersof the Philesiads, has decided me toseparate them, in the belief thatrecruits may be hereafter foundfor them. Very little is known atout them at present; no one has Pig CXLVIII. analysed their seeds, and it is even doubtful whether the two genera here brought together are so closely alUed as issupposed. For my part, I only know the ovules of Philesia. Lapageria looks like aSmUax bearing the flowers of a Bomarea. Chih, especially its southern provinces, produces all we as yet know of the speciesof these plants. Lapageria rosea, a most beautiful twiner, is said to have sweet eatable ben*ies, and aroot Uke Sarsaparilla in quahty. GENERA. Philesia, , , Ruiz et Pav. Numbers. Gen. 2. Sp. 2. Position.—Smilacese.—Philesiaceae.—Roxbiughiacece. Amaryllid<cc€<£. Fig. CXLVIII.—1. Philesia buxifolia; 2. stigma of Lapageria rosea; 3. its ovary cut across; 4. 218 TRILLIACEvE. [DiCfYOGENS Order LXXI. TRILLIACEJE.—Parids. TrilliaceEe, DC. Propr. Med. 294. (1816); A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. York, —Paridese, Link 277. (1829); Etidl. Gen. p. 153 ; Meisn. Gen. p. 403. Diagnosis.—Dictyogeiis loiih bisexual tripetaloideoicsjlotvers, lialf consolidated carpels and axile placentcB. Simple-stemmed herbaceous plants with tubers or rbranous netted leaves. Flowers large, terminal,solitary, 0. Sepals 3, herbaceous. Petals 3,much larger, coloured, or herbaceous. Sometimesoue-fom-th is added to thek parts. Stamens 6-10 ;filaments subulate ; anthers linear, ^^ith cells on theiredges, and the cormective extended beyond free, 3- 5-celled ; styles as many, distinct ;stigmas inconspicuous; ovules 00, in 2 rows, anatropal,ascending. Fruit succulent, 3- 5-celled. Seeds 00,with a leathery brownish skin ; embryo minute, in
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