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Iconogr. t. 8; T biglandulosa and A. uniflora, R. Br. Prod. 278 ; A. 
monantha, Endl. in Pl. Preiss, ii. 45 ; A. australis, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 
74; Pleea Sieleri, Reichb. in Sieb. Pl. Exs.; Melanthium Browni 
Schlecht. Linnæa, i. 86. 
Queensland. Moreton Bay, fodit; = Beckler ; Darling Downs, 
Woolls ; Armidale, Perrott ; Rockhampt n, O' Shanes: 
N. S. . Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 156, and 
Sid Thes petes € New England, C. Stuart ; bebe River, Wilcox ; 
Richmond River, Henders 
View ria. Wendu Vale, Robertson ; about Melbourne, Adamson, F. Mueller, and 
others. 
D. prezen Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant throughout the island, J. 
ooker. 
S. Australia. St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller; Mount Gambier, Mrs. Wehl ; 
Yorke Peninsula, Fowler; in the interior from Lake Eyre to the River Finke, Giles. 
W. Australia. From King George's Sound to Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll., 
n. 784, 185, 786, Paste n. 1598, 1600, 1602, 1603, and many others; Murchison 
River, 0 dut. 
the rdiet specimens m very varie peste into distinct be 
either by general size or b that ot the perianth, by the more or less spathiform 
upper leaves, by t umber of rs, 1, 2 or more in the spike, by the colour of 
gments described as yellow, with or without a purple pec ae or almost wholly 
purple, or by the union or distinctness of the glands on their surfac 
17. IPHIGENIA, Kunth. 
Perianth ea of 6 distinct spreading m all equal and . 
similar, S 
s 6, hypogynous, very much shorter than the perianth ; 
anthers ovile -Oblong. versatile, the cells opening laterally i in longitudinal 
slits. Ovary sessile, i vex with rather numerous ovules in each cell ; 
styles 8, very shortly united at the base, recurved, stigmatic along the 
inner edge. Capsule less angular than in Anguillaria, opening loculicid- 
ally in 3 valves. Seeds small, globular, the testa thin brown and 
appressed ; albumen fleshy. Embry small, near the hilum.—Herbs 
forming a nal tunicated bulb, the oie simple, wi 
Flowers few, on long pedicels, or sessile in a species not Australian 
Besides the Australian species, which is widely distributed over East India, there 
are one or two others from East India, and one in New Zealand. The genus is 
closely allied to Anguillaria, an included in it by R. Brown, differing from 
i the separately deciduous perianth-segments and ns. Kunth places it 
ina nt er, as havi anthers introrse, not I have failed to 
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