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Tas. 6326. 
ARTHROPODIUM NEO-CALEDONICUM, 
Native of New Caledonia, 
Nat. Ord. Litiacex.—Tribe ANTHERICER, 
Genus Artnnoropium, R. Br. (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xv. p. 351.) 
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ARTHRopopIUM neo-caledonicum ; foliis pluribus rosulatis linearibus graminoideis 
Viridibus glabris semipedalibus, caule nudo tereti, panicule laxissime ramis 
elongatis ascendentibus, floribus in racemos laxos secundos dispositis, pedi- 
cellis medio articulatis patulis vel cernuis inferioribus geminis, bracteis parvis 
lanceolatis, perianthii parvi albi segmentis exterioribus lanceolatis, interiori- 
bus oblongis, staminibus perianthio distincte brevioribus antheris minutis 
oblongis filamentis dimidio inferiori nudis dimidio superiori strumosis, ovario 
oblongo, stylo brevi, stigmate capitato. : 
; * A. neo-caledonicum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 352. 
This is a native of New Caledonia, recently introduced into 
cultivation by Messrs. Veitch. It is interesting geographi- 
cally as extending to New Caledonia the range of another 
of the characteristic Australian and New Zealand genera. 
Its nearest ally is 4. candidum, Raoul, of New Zealand, and 
the other five or six species besides these two are all confined 
to Australia and New Zealand. Whether it will be hardy 
about London still remains to be proved. I described it last 
year from a single dried specimen gathered on Mount Kanala 
in New Caledonia by M. Deplanche, and it is No. 1695‘ of the 
Vieillard collection distributed by the late M. Lenormand. 
The plant from which our drawing was made flowered with 
Messrs. Veitch in May, 1877. 
-Descr. Root a tuft of cylindrical fleshy fibres. Leaves 
many in a radical rosette, linear, grass-like, bright green, 
glabrous, about half a foot long, three or four lines broad. 
Stem, including the inflorescence, a foot and a half long, 
slender, terete, without any leaves between the radical rosette 
and the branches. Panicle very long, with four or five 
slender ascending branches each about half a foot long, which 
_ OCTOBER Ist, 1877. 
