BY W. V. FITZGKKALD. 105 



This species differs from L. hre'vicH.^pis, Benth., in foliage, and 

 from that species and L. propiugii'Hs, R.Br., in smaller habit, in 

 the lobes of the hypogynous disk and most essentially in the fruit. 

 Without the fruit it would be readily mistaken for a small form 

 of the latter. 



LILIACE^. 



H E N s M A N I A, gen.nov. 



Flowers hermaphrodite and neuter on the same axis. Perianth 

 shortly persistent, of 6 equal seiQ;ments, united below the middle 

 into a tubular base. Stamens 3, inserted at the base of the inner 

 segments and not protruding beyond them; filaments flattened; 

 anthers linear, bilobed at the apex, more or less connate, opening 

 along the inner face in longitudinal slits. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 

 ovules in each cell, on an 'axile placenta. Style filiform, entire, 

 with a minute stigma. Fruit capsular, 3-celled, dehiscing loculi- 

 cidally into 3 valves. Seeds 2 in each cell, uppermost erect, 

 lowest pendulous, funicle thickened into a prominent strophiole; 

 testa crustaceous, shining black. 



A tufted perennial, with terete leaves and simple bracteate 

 scapes. Flowers in white woolly turbinate heads, the inflorescence 

 surrounded by an involucre of loosely imbricated bracts. 



Technically the structure of the flower is similar to that of 

 Johnsonia, R.Br., but the. bracteate scapes, the white woolh^ tur- 

 binate heads, and the fact that only the outer flowers develop 

 fruit seem to afl'ord suflicient grounds for establishing this new 

 genus. It may be observed that it is established on perfect 

 flowering specimens of J^erotes furbinafa, Endl. Apparently 

 perfect flowers were not known to that botanist, yet, as he 

 evidently saw the fruit, it is strange that no comments were made 

 on its remarkable structural divergence from that of the true 

 Xerotes. Bentham did not see specimens in flower or fruit. 

 The abortive ovary referred to by that authority evidently 

 belonged to a neuter flower. Although I have numerous examples 

 before me I have failed to find any trace of the spreading stig- 

 matic lobes referred to by him. 



