Tas. 6746. 
DICHOPOGON STRICTUS. 
Native of 8. East Australia and Tasmania. 
Nat. Ord. Linracem.—-Tribe AsPHODELER. 
Genus Dicnorogon, Kunth; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. vii. p. 58.) 
Dicnoroeon strictus ; fibris radicalibus tuberosis, foliis gramineis caule 2-3-pedali 
brevioribus, bracteis ovatis lanceolatisve acuminatis, floribus solitariis v. 2-3-nis 
sparsis, perianthio 1-1} poll. diam. fo.iolis exterioribus elliptico-oblongis subacutis 
concavis, interioribus paullo longioribus et duplo latioribus late purpureis 
obcordatis medio 3-costatis marginibus erosis, antheris brunneo-purpureis, 
appendicibus oblongis granulatis, capsula erecta. 
D.- strictus, Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 319 excl. syn.; Benth. Fl. 
Austral. vol. vii. p.. 58, 
ArtTHRopopIuM strictum, Br. Prodr. p. 276; F. Muell. Fragment. vol. vii. 
p- 66, 
D.undulatum, Regel Gartenft. vol. ii. t. 37. ; 
A. laxum, Hook. f. Fl. Tasman. vol. ii. p. 51, t. 131, non Sied. 
A more or less common and very attractive sweet-scented 
meadow-land, &c., plant over the whole south-east quarter 
of Australia, from Moreton Bay and the Darling Downs in 
Queensland, southward through New South Wales to 
Victoria and Tasmania, and westward to South Australia; 
nowhere, however, growing in greater luxuriance than in 
Tasmania, where it flowers in November. The D. humilis, 
Kunth, and probably D. setosus, Kunth, are added by 
authors as synonyms. Of the former I have seen no speci- 
men; of D. setusus a specimen so named from the inde- 
fatigable Baron Mueller appears of very different habit, 
having densely matted roots, subulate leaves not two inches 
long, and a very slender stem with a simple raceme of very 
few flowers; it is, however, reduced to a synonym by the 
Baron himself, and no doubt on good gtfounds. In fact, 
as with so many petaloid Liliacee, this is a very variable 
plant in size, length and breadth of leaves, length and 
ramification of inflorescence, form and size of bracts, 
MARCH Ist, 1884, 
