. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. lves havingthe partition in their middle. Seeds numerous,minute, horizontal ; their skm thick ; withthe embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. These are herbaceous plants, havuig thegreat spathaceous bracts of a plant of theMusads, combuied with the habit of Sedges ;and at the same time liaAang a flower hke thatof a Spiderwort, minus its calyx and one is micertain what the exact analogy of itspetaloid divisions may be ; but they appearto belong to the corolla. Brown reg
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. lves havingthe partition in their middle. Seeds numerous,minute, horizontal ; their skm thick ; withthe embryo in the axis of fleshy albumen. These are herbaceous plants, havuig thegreat spathaceous bracts of a plant of theMusads, combuied with the habit of Sedges ;and at the same time liaAang a flower hke thatof a Spiderwort, minus its calyx and one is micertain what the exact analogy of itspetaloid divisions may be ; but they appearto belong to the corolla. Brown regards theWaterworts as having some relation to Bur-mannia, and even to Orchids, on account wepresume of the constant abortion of 2 out ofthe 3 stamens. Their nearest relationship,however, is plamly with Xyrids and Spiderworts, from the former of which they differin the want of a glumaceous calyx, and from both in the large embryo lying in the axis ofthe albumen. The only plants of this Order yet discovered are found in New Holland, Cochin-china, and China, Nothing is known of any use to which they may be Philydnim, Banks. GENERA. Garciana, Lour. Hetaeria, Endl. Numbers. Gen. 2. Sp. —Commelynaceoe -Xyridacese. S-^ ^^^y^Iv^®^^* °^ Philydrum lanuginosum, divided perpendicularly so as to show the CXXVII.—1. Hetaeria pygmsea; 2. a flower ; 3. the fertile stamen and two lateral sterile ones :a cross section of the ovary. XYRIDACEiE. ^W| Order LV. XYRIDACE^.—Xyrids. Xyrideae, Kunth Sp. 1. 255. (1815) a sect, o/Restiaceae; Agardh Aphorism, 158.(1823); Desvaux in Ann. des Sc. 13. 49. (1828); Endl. Gen. xlvii. ; Mexsner,p. 407 ; Kunth p. 1.—Rapateae, Endl. I. c Diagnosis.—Xyridal Endogens, with 3 sepals opposite the carpels, 3 petals, 3 fertile sta-mens, parietal placeiitce, and a minute embryo on the outside of fleshy albumen. Herbaceous sedgy plants with fibrous roots. Leaves radica
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