Geitonoplesium. | CXXVII. LILIACEJ. 19 
ments filiform, free or very slightly connected in a ring at the base; 
A oblong-linear, erect, the cells opening in longitudinal slits. 
Ovary sessile, short, 8- celled, with severa a in each cell; style 
filiform, the stigmatic apex undivided. Fruit nearly globular, 3- celled, 
without pulp, the pericarp somewhat — at length dry an often 
— loculicidally in 3 valves. Seeds irregularly shaped, with a black, 
rather thickl nisu testa, hard albumen and small embryo.—A 
The genus is limited to the single Australian species which extends to Sas South 
Pacific Islands. It closely resembles Eustrephus both in habit and chara 
ing only in inflorescence and in the entire not-fringed inner lica genes ents 
oblong or almost ovate, contracted into a short petiole, obtuse acute or 
tapering ae a boi point, ren d 2 to 8 in. long, rather rigid, with fine 
in. 
long, the pedieels usually shorter, iier close under the batt with 
a minute bract. Berry-like fruit of a dark Bead B io 6 lines diameter. 
Seeds few.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bou F. Muell. Fragm. 
vii. 74; Luzuriaga cymosa and L. montana, R. Br. Prod. 282; Medeola 
angustifolia, Red. Lil. t. 398; Geitonoplesium videa and G. 
asperum nn. l e.; G. angustifolium, C. Koch in Walp. Ann. 
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Pree gin and. From Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, Leichhardt, dias Rp, 
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Dal 
. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue’ Mountains, R. Brown and doni ; north- 
ward to New England, €. Stuart; Richmond, Clarence and Hastings Rivers, 
Beckler, Henderson, C. Moore, and rete ise Jo pie, Harvey; Illawarra 
Ast Junningham, Shepherd ; and Twofold Bay, F. M: 
ictoria. Lake King and other Md ruin 2 Gippe Land, F. Mueller and 
` others. 
Tre 6. DmacxwEx. Perianth more or less gamophyllous, ae 
Anthers versatile. Style undivided. Berry indehiscent, or n — 
dry and 8-valved. Stems woody, sometimes arborescent. 
ulate. 
10. DRACZENA, Linn. 
Perianth deciduous, tubular, straight, with 6 equal narrow lobes, as 
long as or shorter than the tube. pninmeng 6, aint at the orifice of 
the tube, and not exceeding the ; fila Q r : 
anthers oblong, versatile, the eR piel in longitudinal slits. Ovary 
sessile, short, 3-celled, with 1 erect ovule in each cell; petito, 
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