298 ON SOME NEW SPECIES OF 
three-lobed, with three subulate recurved stigmas, three-celled, with 
many axile ascending ovules. Capsule oblong, membranous, three- 
lobed, three-celled, dehiseing to the middle down the axis, each cell 
splitting at the summit only, the divisions crowned by the persistent 
styles, which are also split in halves. Seeds few or many, linear, as- 
cending, covered with a brittle black shining testa, that is contracted 
at either end of the seed.—In small specimens the leaves are a span 
long and 3-3 inch broad. 
Prats IX. Figs. ] and 2. Flowers. 3. Ovary. 4. Transverse sec- 
tion of ovary. 5. Capsule, 6. Vertical section of capsule. 7. Seed. 
8. The same cut longitudinally :—all magnified. 
2. Milligania densiflora ; foliis coriaceis patulis e basi lata vaginante 
gradatim angustatis acuminatis late subulato - lanceolatis lineari- 
subulatisve sparse sericeo-pilosis, seapo robusto sericeo-villoso, 
bracteis ovato-lanceolatis concavis longe acuminatis infimo basi longe - 
amplexicauli vaginante vagina integra membranacea, panicula ovaía 
densiflora ramis ramulisque robustis. 
Has. Tasmania. Mount Sorell, M‘Quarrie Harbour. December; 
1846. Dr. Milligan. 
A very different-looking plant from the preceding, with much 
shorter, more coriaceous foliage, sheathing lower bracts, robust scape, 
broader bractlets, and dense panicle.—Leaves coriaceous, 8-10 inches 
long, gradually tapering from a broad sheathing base, 1-14 inch broad, 
to an acuminate point, sparingly covered with silky hairs. Scape woolly 
with silky hairs, robust, with one or two large ovate concave leafy 
bracts, that have long entire amplexicaul sheaths and tapering apices. 
Panicle 1-6 inches long; branches short, with concave leafy bracts ; 
flowers crowded, 3 inch across, white. 
This curious genus is apparently intermediate between Liliacee and 
Melanthaceæ, differing from the former in the three separate styles and 
the partially tripartible capsule, and from the latter in the more 1m- 
portant characters of versatile introrse anthers, and few linear seeds 
covered with a black brittle testa. Its general resemblance to Astelia 
I have already mentioned, and it further agrees with that genus in the 
nature of the silky wool, the very coriaceous foliage, the hemispherical 
base of the perianth, oblong capsule, and especially in the long seed. 
It differs from that genus in the structure and dehiscence of the capsule, 
which resembles in form, etc., that of Anguillaria, So much diversity 
