CXXVII. LILIACEA.: 25 
Trisz 8. MenantHace®. Perianth-segments free or — united. at 
the base, rarely to the middle. Style more or less divided into 8 
stigmatic branches or short distinct styles. Stock not at all or scarcely 
bulbous. Anthers frequently turned outwards. 
18. HEWARDIA, Hook. 
Perianth divided nearly to the base into 6 petal-like deciduous spreading 
segments, all nearly equal and similar, the very short persistent base 
adnate to the base of the ovary. EAR 3, attached to the base of the 
inner segments and much shorter than t them ; filaments short, dilated 
below the middle ; anthers erect, sagittate, the cells opening outwards 
in longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, 3-celled, with numerous ovules 
superposed in 2 rows in each cell; style short, with 3 recurved a ic 
lobes. Capsule oblong, coriaceous, opening loculicidally in 8 valves, 
leaving a persistent central placentiferous columella. Seeds own. 
—Perennial with the ea leaves distichous and crowded at the base 
of the "m as in Irideæ. Stem simple, with a single rather large 
ower. 
genus is limited to the single Tasmanian species. It has all the characters of 
idee, except that the ovary is superior, adnate only by the T short base, and 
it ought perhaps to be referred to that order as an exceptional genu 
lines wide. Stem 6 in. to 1 ft. high, with 2 or 8 distant sheathing 
short leaves, more membranous than the radical ones, and the 2 upper- 
enclosing the pedicel. Flower r solitary, t terminal, on a pedicel shorter 
than the perianth but often 1 thening after flowering. 
o k. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 47; F. Muell. ees 
7 pam enl mountain ranges near sois uarrie Harbour, 
isa 
Miilig unn ; f Mount Lapeyrouse, Oldfield, C. Stuart ; alpine regions 
of Mount Field’ East, F. F. piove Aia a Range and Lake Pedder, Johnstone. 
14. MILLIGANIA, Hook. f. 
. Perianth persistent, divided nearly to the base into 6 membranous 
irregularly 3-nerved lobes, all equal and similar. Stamens 6, attached 
to the base of the lobes and shorter than them; filaments ts slightly 
flattened; anthers ovate, erect or scarcely versatile, the cells opening 
My in longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, 8-celled, with rather 
erous ovules in each cell superposed in 2 ignes style more or 
be. deeply divided into 8 lobes stigmatie at the end. Capsule mem- 
