Iphigenia. | CXXYII. LILIACER. 31 
anther, and when the flower is expanded the anther becomes versatile, with the 
attachment, if not basal, rather dorsal than towards the inner face. 
indica, Kunth, rei iv. 213.—Stems simple, about 1 ft. 
high i in the Australian specimens, slender, with a few rather long linear 
or linear-lanceolate leaves, sheathing at the bas owers few, at the 
end of the stem, on rather long slender erem ‘subtended, at least the 
lower ones, by lea afy bracts.  Perianth purple or red, the segments 
narr ow-linear, RUN 3 lines long in the Australian specimens, longer in 
some Indian ones. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 4 to 5 lines long.—F. 
Muell. SEAE D. 74 ; Anguillaria indica, R. Br. Prod. 273; Wall. Pl. 
As. Rar. iii. t. 259. 
iae N. Australia. Arnhem N. bay and islands of the coast, R. Brown ; Sea Range, 
meee 
€— and. Rockhampton and adjoining districts, Bowman, O’Shanesy ; 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
18. SCHELHAMMERA, Br. 
Perianth of 6 distinct decano: segments, all nearly equal and similar, 
induplieate or convolute round the corresponding stamens in the bud, 
spreading t in fl tamens 6, attached to th 
base of the segments and shorter than em ; nts thick or 
opening laterally i in longitudinal slits, turned outwards when ' fully ou 
Ovary sessile, prominently 3-angled, 3-celled, with several ovules Bia 
posed in 2 rows in each cell; style more or less deeply divided into 3 
recurved lobes stigmatic along the inner edge. Capsule nearly globular, 
with an almost fleshy pericarp, opening loculicidally in 3 valves. 
Seeds irregularly ovoid-globular, the funicle expanded into a broad 
irregular strophiole ; testa very thin, light brown, closely appressed ; 
albumen ath hard. Embryo very 'small, near the hilum.—Pe rennials, 
with fibrous roots sd simple or branched stems. Leaves sessile, ovate 
or lanceolate. Flowers terminal, pedicellate, solitary or several together 
in an umbel sessile within the last leaves. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Leaves with SUME. uiid margins. Flowers poteris 
or rarely 2 togeth ich. 
Leaves quite entire. fave usually above 10 in the umbel . 2. S. insane 
i undulata, R. Br. Prod. 274.—Fibrous roots often swollen 
into aan tubers, Stems slender, diffuse and branching at the base, 
ascending or erect, rarely much above 6 in. high. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 
late, varying however in breadth, 1 to nearly 2 in. long, membranous, 
with slightly prominent nerves, the margins minutely undulate. Flowers 
on 
pedicels of 4 to 1 in, without bracts.  Perianth-segments usually about 
4 lines long, oblong, almost acute, either wholly flat when fully out or 
