TASMANIAN PLANTS. 297 
crustacea, atra, nitida, utrinque subcarunculata v. apice appendicu- 
lata; endopleura. membranacea ; albumine carnoso; embryone tereti 
axillari— Herbee elate cespitose Tasmanice, facie Asteliæ, sericee v. 
villosa. Radix fibrosa, fibris crassis. Folia lineari-ensiformia, sicca 
coriacea. Scapus paniculatus, ramosus, bracteatus. Flores pedicellati, 
mediocres, albi, bracteolati. Capsula Anguillaria. 
1. Milligania longifolia ; foliis elongato-linearibus subgramineis basi 
parce villosis, panicula laxa effusa ramis gracilibus, bracteis bracteo- 
lisque membranaceis linearibus lineari-lanceolatisve. (Tab. IX.) 
Has. Tasmania. Franklin River, under shade of Huon Pines, Feb- 
ruary, 1845; Gunn, 1388.  Crevices of limestone cliffs, Gordon's 
River, M‘Quarrie Harbour, December, 1846 ; Milligan, 149. 
Mr. Gunn, who discovered this genus and species, states that it 
grew in company with some of the most peculiar plants of Tasmania ; 
the Huon Pine, Anopterus glandulosus, Cenarrenes. nitida, and Richea 
pandanifolia, all of which are typical of a most humid atmosphere. 
It so closely resembles Astelia alpina in habit and general appearance, 
that its discoverer took it for that plant; and he adds that the speci- 
mens were nearly three months drying between papers that were daily 
changed.— Plants apparently growing in dense large tufts, with long 
pendulous spreading foliage and erect scapes. Roots of stout, simple 
fibres. Stems of large plants nearly 2 inches in diameter at the base, 
formed of the sheathing bases of the leaves, which are surrounded by 
the fibres of decayed foliage. Leaves shorter or longer than the scape, 
1-3 feet long, 1-2 inches broad, linear, gradually tapering at the top 
to a long point, grassy-green, ribbed when dry, more or less silky or 
villous towards the base and along the midrib. Scape villous, 1-2 feet 
high, branched above the middle, bearing below that one or two narrow 
linear subulate amplexicaul leaves. Panicle bracteate at the axils; 
bracteæ lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, generally elongate; branches 
slender, spreading ; pedicels slender, cernuous, covered with silky wool, 
bearing small linear membranous bracteole at the base. Flowers 
$ inch broad, white, not jointed on to the pedicel. Perianth entire 
and cup-shaped at the base, then divided into six (rarely five og seven) 
linear-oblong blunt lobes, that are imbricate and somewhat involute 
in estivation. Stamens small, inserted at the base of the segments; 
filaments subulate. -Anthers small, versatile, two-lobed. Ovary sunk 
in the base of the perianth, and adherent at its base with it, oblong, 
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