Drymophila.] CXXVII. LILIACEX. 13 
recurved. Perianth-segments usually about 3 lines long, but varying in 
size, marked with from 3 to 7 longitudinal veins. Berry blue, nearly 
globular, from 4 to 6 lines diameter. Seeds usually 8 to 20, with a 
smooth brown testa.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 571; F. Muell. 
Fragm. vii. 78; Hook, f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 49. 
ales. Hastings River, Fraser ; Macleay River, Fitzgerald. 
Vict Mount Warrenip, Wilhelmi; Skipton, Whan ; Mount Macedon, 
Walter; ‘Cae Otway Ranges, E ueller 
Tas Table Mounta FR Br own; abundantin grassy shaded places 
asin ruere &c., J. D. Hooker. 
9. D. Moorei, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 571.—Closely 
resembles D. cyanocarpa in habit and stature, but the leaves are broader, 
tly similar. 
only 8 or 4 seeds fully twice the diameter of those of D. cyanocarpa, the 
testa very pale coloured, thin or more or less wrinkled. How far these 
hsc prove constant remains to be proved.—D. pyrrhocarpa, F. 
ell. Fragm. ix. 190. 
N.S. Wales. Hastings and Macleay rivers, C. Moore ; Clarence River, Wilcox. 
` Trise V. Asparacem.—Perianth-segments distinct, spreading. Style 
obdicided. Berry indehiscent or very tardily dry and 3-valved. 
6. DIANELLA, Lam. 
Perianth persistent, of 6 distinct oblong segments, either equal in 
length or the 3 inner ones rather shorter, all with thin margins, and 8 
to 5 rarely 6 or 7 parallel veins more or less approximate in the centre. 
Stamens 6, 3 opposite the — segments hypogynous, 3. more or less 
adhering to the base of the segments ; filaments abruptly thickened 
at the apex or nearly to the. Paso; anthers erect, the cells opening in 
terminal pores often continued in longitudinal slits sometimes nearly to 
the base. Ovary sessile, short, 3-celled, with several superposed ovules 
in each cell; style filiform, with a terminal somewhat capitate stigma, 
entire or slightly 3-furrowed. Fruit a blue indehiscent berry. Seeds 
few, Magnets shaped, with a black testa coriaceous smooth and shining, 
a white waxy albumen and small embryo.—Glabrous perennials, with 
thick Sirs roots, the stock often Teo or slightly branched. 
Scapes or stems erect, rigid, often several feet high. Leaves crowded 
at the base of the stems or more or less spread on the lower part, 
distichous and sheathing at the base, with a long lamina, a few upper 
ones reduced to short sheaths and a small erect lamina. Flo wers blue, 
pedicellate, ap pane in loose dichotomous cymes collected in a terminal 
panicle. Bracts at the base of the pedicels small and scarious or none. 
Pedicels Barina close under the flower. 
The inem. is chiefly Australian, but extends in a very few species to tropical Asia, 
