26 CXXVII. LILIACER. [ Milligania. 
branous with 3 laterally prominent lobes or angles, opening loculi- 
cidally at the apex in 3 valves. Seeds several, narrow, often somewhat 
eurved, with a hooked terminal appendage; testa black, Maren 
shining; albumen fleshy ; embryo linear, central or nearly so.—Densely 
tufted rather tall or dwarf plants, the stem inflorescence and somete 
m leaves more or less clothed or sprinkled with loose almost woolly 
. Leaves chiefly radical, long and very prominently nerved. Stems 
pest Shortly le at the base. Flowers numerous in a terminal 
panicle, shortly pedicellate along its branches, or rarely few in a short 
corymb each within a single bract, and usually hermaphrodite. 
The genus is limited to Tasmania. With "uiis: of the habit of Astelia, the 
characters are more odiiy those of Anguillaria 
Perianth ege, the fruit. Stamens very short. Style 
very short, conical, deeply 3-lobed. 
Panicle dense. Flowers almost sessile xal aW E do iftora. 
Panicle loose. Flowers distinctly pedicellate . 2. M. longifolia. 
Perianth enclosing. the i Style and stamens of - M. 
t "Dwarf DES with a es of less than 6 
flow She 3. M. Johnstoni. 
Porianth ' flleied under this amall fruit. tame ens more 
than 
S 
lf as long as the perianth. Style filiform, longer 
an the ovary: orty 3-lobed at the ar Panicle 
many flow ^ . 4. M. stylosa. 
1. M. densiflora, Hook. : Fl. Tasm. ii. 62. bond near M. longifolia, 
but the leaves are shorter, broader, more rigid, the panicle narrow and 
compact, 6 to 8 in. long. Flower erowded on the short branches and 
very nearly sessile, the perianth larger ait in M. longifolia, the lobes 5 
or even 6 lines long. Stamens very shor 
á Heras Mount Sorrel, Macquarrie vixi Milligan ; Mount Lapeyrouse, 
(field. 
de N- -ilongiflin Hook. f. in Hook. Kew Journ. v. 296, t. 9, Fl. 
ing 
8 is ny about 2 lines xe “a not dg so broad. Seeds 
ith a v 
River, Gunn ; Macquarrie Harbour, riskja 
Johnstoni, F. Muell. Herb.—A dwarf plant, the stems 1 to 8 
in. rie covered with the broad leaf-sheaths, some of the older ones 
split in ents. Blade of the leaves lanecolate; acute, not above 
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