16 CXXVII. LILIACES. [ Dianella. 
i rulea, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 505.—Leaves distichous and 
sheathing at the base, not so closely erowded on the stock as in the 
preceding species but more or less extending over the lower part of the 
stem, which is often branched at the base; the sheaths much flattened 
laterally, prominently and acutely keeled, and usually but not always 
scabrous on the edges ; the lamina long, erect, and narrow, rarely attain- 
ing $ in. in breadth and sometimes under 2 lines. Panicle usually loose 
as in D. levis, but often smaller and the cymes sometimes dense an 
almost sessile along the main rhachis. Perianth-segments 3 to 4 lines 
long, with 5 or 8 nerves less crowded in the centre than in D. levis, 
and the flowers usually blue. Filaments shorter than the anthers, with 
the thickened apex not longer than the filiform base and sometimes very 
short. Berry small and globular.—R. Br. Prod. 279; Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. xiv. 576; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 128; Red: Lil. ii. t. 79; 
D. revoluta, Bot. Reg. t. 1120. 
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 163 and 354; the specimens appear to 
be referrible rather to a broad-leaved form of D. cerulea than to D. ensifolia. 
Queensland. Moist shady valleys and marshy places, from Moreton Bay, 
A. Cunningham and others, to Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Palm Island, Henne ; 
Cape York, M‘Gillivray, Hann’s Expedition. 
- S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 199, and 
many others; northward New England, C. Stuart ; Hastings, Clarence, and 
Richmond rivers, Beckler and others; Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. 
This appears to be the commonest species from Port Jackson northwards, but I 
have seen no southern specimens. 
D. graminifolia, Kunth Enum. v. 46, and D. elegans, Kunth Lc. v. 49, dubiously 
referred by Baker to D. cerulea, may belong to that species, but are not determinable 
wordy descriptions of single garden specimens, without any differential 
nes. 
D. congesta, R. Br. Prod. 280, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 576, from Prince of 
W: Islands, Torres straits, appears to me to be a form of D. cerulea, with dense 
sessile cymes ; the inflorescence, however, in the specimen preserved is scarcely fully 
developed and almost destroyed by insects. 
ensifolia, Red Lil. t. l.—Very near the broad-leaved forms of 
kened part very short and as broad as the 
anthers themselves. Fruit nearly globular, larger than in D. cærulea, 
but not so large as in D. tasmanica.—Baker in Journ. Li n. Soe. xiv. 
576; Bot. Mag. t. 1404 ; D. nemorosa, Jacq. Hort. Scheenbr. t. 94. 
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Islands ; those from Arnhem’s Land, referred to this species by Baker, a to me 
to be nearer D. cerulea, but the distinction between these two very Ta species is 
as yet very uncertain. 
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