14 CXXVII. LILTACER. (Dianella. 
the ree and Pacific Islands, Son New Zealand. Of the five Australian species 
one is a comm siatic one, the other four are endemic. In their typical forms 
five Mo very distinct, but they are all so variable ys ny inter- 
mediate hav cae itv tto distribute satisfactorily the numerous 
dried specimens before It is not — however, that a careful study of 
living plants in their pec country may disclose more positive characters to 
distinguish even twice as many more or je] permanent forms. 
sate do Sai pa or nearly so, very shortly sheathing the base 
o 
Faen aster than the filament, which is thickened 
from below the middle. Leaves long and broad . 1. D, tasmanica. 
P ead than the filament, which is ES AR 
above per e 
ves Silos ually long and — flat, the 
ee ating! bete v searcly ie led 2. D. levis. 
Lene long. gid, with tho margins "much 
voile thea sheathing € kee 3. D. revoluta. 
Stem ate branching at the brpa less 1 eafy, 
the sheathing bae of the faves atonal ys fattened and 
acutely keeled. Anthers m than the filamen 
Leaves s narrow, m s pr under iin. broad . 
e. 4, D. cerulea. 
Leaves å to 1 in. voe 6 ee ow eal De dis OPEN 
s = tasmanica, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 57, t. 188.— Stems attain- 
metimes 4 or 5 ft. though often shorter. Leaves distichous and 
ituwded at the base of the stem, usually 1 to 2 feet long and } to 
nearly 1 in. broad, the margin and midrib scabrous, those on the stem 
reduced to a few short distant sheaths with short erect lamine or points. 
Panicle often above 1 ft. long, the cymes loose, with recurved pedicels. 
Perianth-segments about 3% lines long, all usually 5-nerved, or the outer 
ones sometimes with 6 or 7 or the inner with only 8 nerves. Filaments 
usually longer than, often twice as long as, the oblong anther. Berry 
globular or ovoid-oblong, about + in. long.— in . Linn. Soc: 
xiv. 575; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 121; Bot. Mag. t. 5551. 
Victoria. Mount Baw-Baw and Cape Otway, F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Common in rich moist soil, J. D. Hooker 
. Archeri, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 58, appears to be scarcely even a distinct variety, 
nor m I well apr Be Baker, Le. D levis, Hook. f. l.c. 57, not of Br.). 
D. densa, Lindb. in Act Sc. Fenn. x. 132, t. 6, is pis referred to this s spec dee t 
Baker. D. ue ent teen Schult. Syst. vii. 352, described from a Tasmanian $ 
4 esc 
in Martius' herbarium, is most probably a narrow-leaved foeni of D. rome ts 
Br. Prod. 280.—Stems varying from under 1 ft. in 
some le of the inland Uere to 2 or 3 ft. in luxuriant ones from Queens- 
land. Leaves usually few at the base of the stem, the short sheathing 
specimens Mc long and narrow, often 
ve 2 ft. long and } to nearly 1 in. d, flat or with scarcely 
bed margins when dry, the edges Rs or slightly scabrous ; um 
the smaller inland specimens the leaves are much shorter than the s 
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