Flagellaria. | CXXVII. LILIACER. 11 
points spirally twisted into tendrils, variable in breadth, many-nerved but 
not plicate, rounded at the base and almost petiolate on the sheath which 
ends on each side in a short rounded auricle. Flowers white, very 
merous, sessile in clusters or short spikes on the ultimate small 
ine of a dense terminal panicle, with a small scale-like bract under 
each flower and under the smaller branches, Perianth-segments about 
1 line long. Fruit about 2 lines diameter. —Red. Lil. v. t. 257 ; Sehnitzl, 
Ieonogr. i. t. 51. b; R. Br. Prod, 264. 
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong; Point Pearce, F. Mueller; Escape 
Cliffs and Adams Bay, Hulse. 
ensl Northumberland and Poe of Wales Islands, R. Brown ; islands 
along the coast, 4. Cunningham; Cape York, M‘Gillivray, Daemel ; Rockingham 
Bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, 0'Shanesy, Bowman, and others; Moreton Bay, Eaves. 
N.S. Wales. Hastings and Clarence Rivers , Becker ; i Port acquarrie, Tozer ; 
Richmond River, Henderson ; Lord Howe’s Island, Fullag 
The species extends over the tropical regions of Asia a Fre 
Trier III. AsrELIEx.—Perianth-segments distinct, spreading. Anthers 
erect, Styles or stigmas very short, distinct. Tufted herbs. Leaf- 
veins parallel. Berry indehiscent. 
4. ASTELIA, Banks. 
Flowers dieeious or nearly so. Perianth persistent, divided nearly 
r quite to the base into 6 equal spreading membranous pug 
Sire 6, attached to the base of the segments and shorter than them 
dia. Ovary a 
rudimentary in the males, sessile in the females, either 1-celled with 3 
parietal placente, or more or less perfectly 3-celled with axile placente ; 
ovules numerous to each placenta; style divided to the base or nearly 
so into 9 short stigmatic branches. Fruit a globular or oblong inde- 
hiscent berry. Seeds several, ovoid or a angular, with a black shining 
erustaceous testa. Embryo small, near the base of the fleshy albumen. 
ey tufted herbs, more or less clothed with long silky or almost 
paleaceous hairs. Leaves crowded at the base of the stem, with broad 
arae duds. Flowers in terminal racemes or Leere reduced in 
one or two dwarf species to 2 or 8 almost sessile flowers 
he pem species, which is endemie, there are several others spread 
eid Now Zealand i Antarctic regions, and the southern — of America, 
wing somet nie or 0 n mountain-tops, sometimes o e trunks of trees. 
For the wes coa a diversity in ~ diffe y species in the re of the ovary and 
Hook. f. Fl 
1. A. alpina, R. Br. Prod, 291.—Leafy base of the stem very short, 
pis tufted, the long broad sheathing bases of the leaves densely 
eovered with very long white silky hairs. Leaves from a few inches to 
1 foot long, 8 to 5 lines broad, or in very luxuriant specimens attaining 
