Wurmbea.] CXXVII. LILIACEA. 29 
cage meet longer than the ovary.—Anguillaria tenella, Endl. in Pl. 
Pus 
Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst coll., Preiss, n. 1598 ; Greenough 
Fi C. Gray. 
16. ANGUILLARIA, Br. 
Perianth persistent, of 6 distinet spreading segments, all equal and 
similar. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the ments or almost 
wards the ba anthers ovate-oblong, versatile, the cells opening later- 
ally in longitudinal aliis: Ovary —€— i celled, with rather numerous 
ovules in each cell; styles 8, distinct or united at the base, shortly 
filiform, recurved, prinio along the inner edge at least towards the 
Ca apsule prominently 8-angled, opening loculieidally in 8 — 
Seeds small, globular, the testa thin brown and appressed; album 
fleshy, rather hard. Embryo small, near the hilum.—Small "he rbs, the 
base of the stem and persistent brown leaf-sheaths thickened into a 
narrow tunicated bulb. Leaves few, linear, the uppermost reduced to a 
broad loose sheath and short lamina or point. Flowers often more or 
less dicecious, either TRIA and terminal or sessile along the rhachis of 
a simple spike. Bracts 
The genus is limited to the two species endemic in Australia, It only differs from 
Wurmbea in the perianth-segments distinct from the base. 
Perianth-segments without Mp. transverse gland. Styles 
shortly ee i ie tes 1. A. densiflora. 
Perianth-segment: Faces verse single or double gland 
below the middle. P fola distinct from the base . 2. A. dioica. 
ensiflora, Benth. ae pry tunicated. Stems about 
dite in the specimens seen. Perianth-segments 4 to 5 lines long, 
less spreading from the base than in A. dioica, scarcely uide with- 
any transverse gland. Stamens nearly as long as the e 
filaments slightly dilated at the base, anthers narrow- hiag. Styles 
filiform, considerably longer than the ovary, very shortly united at the 
se. 
W. Australia. Murchison River, Oldfield ; Greenough Flats, C. Gray. 
, R. Br. Prod. 273.—Bulb tunicated. 
2. A. Stem varying 
from 2 or 8 in. papiru 1 ft. high. Leaves few, the lowest reduced to 
brown elongated je EA — ones usually 3 or 4, linear, varying 
1 , 
from 1 to 3 or even 4 in. long, the lowest sometimes narrow from 
i the others more or pos dilated at the base into a broad loose 
Sheath, the uppermost often reduced A the broad base with a short 
point or only acute, and therefore i get called a spatha. Flowers 
either solitary and terminal or 1, 2 or more sessile along the simple 
rhachis which is often flexuose, peleen the strictly female ones 
