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bracteato compresso-filiformi basi vaginis apertis cireumdato, foliis 
omnibus radicalibus teretibus solitariis acutis elongatis, racemo 
terminali simplice, pedicellis solitariis basi bibracteolatis apice cum 
calyce articulatis, floribus albidis. 
Genus arcto affinitatis nexu hinc Thysanoto inde Arnocrino et 
Sowerbz coadunatum elegi in tributum memoriz przclari Joannis 
Hodgson, Coloni: Victoris» senatoris admodum honorati, viri inter 
eives Australie premagno :stimati, institutionum benevolentiam 
et scientiam colentium nobilis fautoris, explorationis Australis 
strenui promotoris. : 
Hodgsonia junciformis. 
Ad flumen Vasse. A. Oldfield. : 
Planta arida, 2—3' alta, stricta, forsan pluricaulis. Rhizoma 
fibras plures demittens. "Vagins; ad basin caulis plures, lineares, 
acute; interiores usque ad semipedem longs; exteriores gradatim 
breviores. Caulis inferne 3-1 lineam crassus, superne sensim 
tenuior, bracteis tribus semilanceolatis tenuiter acuminatis appressis 
2-5" longis preditus. Folia solitaria, demum cauli fere :quilonga, 
eidem :quierassa, subtiliter striata. ^ Racemus  1—3-pollicaris, 
superne confertiflorus, inferne interruptus. Pedicelli capillari- 
filiformes, primum flore breviores, demum eum :quantes, basi 
inferne bracteola subulato-lanceolata margine albo-membranea 
glabra 2-3" longa suffulti, preterea ad baseos latus alterum 
bracteola minore sepe 1—13" longa lanceolato- v. subulato-lineari 
membranea glabra przditi. Sepala exteriora angusto- v. oblongo- 
lanceolata, circiter 4" longa, ex sicco albida et coerulescentia; in- 
teriora paulo latiora et margine latius membranea. Filamenta 
albida, capillari-linearia; staminum diminutorum circiter 1" longa, 
antheris intense luteis semilineam longis donata; filamenta stami- 
num fertilium pane 1" longa, conum antherarum tenuem 2" longum 
flavum gerentia. Stylus tenuissimus, glaber, vix ultra antheras ex- 
sertus. Germen glabrum, subglobosum. 
In Arnocrino, cujus amb: species Oldfieldio prope flumen Mur- 
chison repertz, notavi folia ad basin ramorum haud raro conspicue. 
evoluta, filamenta tria exteriora breviora, quo modo antherz 
exteriores interioribus insigniter superantur, porre antheras omnes 
introrsum longitudinaliter dehiscentes, capsulam bracteola persis- 
tente interiore tenerrime membranea binervata longe superatam 
sessilem pergamenam mediotenus loculicide trivalvatam globoso- 
ovatam 2" longam raro abortu uniloculatam, loculos capsule di- 
spermos v. altero semine tabescente monospermos, semina super- 
posita oblique ellipsoidea atra lucidissima levissima estrophiolata, 
superum eorumdem adscendens, inferum descendens. 
Fasciculus XIII. editus initio August. 1860. 
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