Tab. 5551. 



DIANELLA Tasmanica. 



Tasmanian Dianella. 



Nat. Ord. Liliace^. — Hexandeia Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Perianthium 6-partitum, sequale, patens, deciduura. Stamina 6, 

 filamentis curvis apice incrassatis glabris pubescentibus stuposisve ; antherse 

 lineares, strictse, basifixaj. Ovarium 3-loculare ; stylus gracilis, stigmate simphci ; 

 ovula plurima. Bacca globosa v. oblonga, 3-locularis, ldcuhs polyspermis. 

 Semina ovoidea, testa atra splendente, umbilico nudo.— Herbae rigid*, perennes ; 

 rhizomate repente ; radicibus fibrosis. Folia rigide coriacea, grammea, basi sem- 

 vaginantia. Flores nutantes, paniculati, albi v. carulei, pedicellis apice articulatis 

 basi bractea unilaterali stipatis. Baccse carulem. FL Tasman. 



Dianella Tasmanica ; 4-5-pedalis, foliis radicalibus longeet late ensiformibus, 

 mar<nnibus revolutis carinaque prominula serrulat is, pamcula decomposite 

 ramosa, pedunculis subfasciculatis pedicellisque cums, anthens parvis fila- 

 mentorum parte incrassata brevioribus, baccis late oblongis subglobosisve. 



Dianella Tasmanica. Hook.f. II. Tasman. v. %.p. 57. t. 133 A. 



A handsome Tasmanian greenhouse ulant, of wlAi the great 

 beauty consists in the abundance of its bright blue berries, which 

 hano- for many weeks on the hair-like pedicels, and form a con- 

 spicuous ornament in a conservatory. It was raised from seeds 

 sent from Tasmania by our valued correspondent William Archer, 



^Descr.' A large rigid grassy-leaved plant, sometimes attain- 

 ing five feet in height. Leaves three to four feet long broadly 

 ensiform, with revolute margins, armed with spmular teeth 

 that cut the hand if the 'eaves be incautiously grasped. Pa- 

 nicies large, lax, decompoundly branched vert many-flowered^ 

 Mowera drooping, pale-blue, about a half to Ihree- quarters of 

 an inch in diameter. Perianth segments oblong, reflexed. 

 Stamens short, filaments very thick, almost cyhndnc, glabrous, 



DECEMBER 1ST, 1865. 



