Kreysigia.] CXXVII. LILIACEJ. 33 
about 4 lines long, but bet in size, the lateral appendages at their 
base either dilated or 2- or 8- even 4-lobed at their glandular apex. 
Capsule 3 or 4 lines di saint ae Bot. Mag. t. 8905 ; F. Muell. Fragm. 
vii. 71; Schelhammera multiflora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1511, not of Br. ; 
Tripladenia Cunninghamii, Don in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1839. 46, Ann. Nat. 
Hist. ser. 1. iv. 282. 
Queensland. Pine River and Moreton = F. mies 
e Hastings oe ie Fraser, A. Cun a dk Beckler ; Richmon 
Rive e, Henderson, and others; Macleay ees Guilfoyle ; 'Tweed m 
Fogesu: g tai River, Wilcox 
20. BURCHARDIA, R. Br. 
Perianth of 6 distinet edem segments, all eed equal and "go. 
induplicate or convolute round the corres kp stamens in the 
spreading and flat when in flour: Stamens 6, attached to the base of 
the perianth-segments and shorter than’ nr filaments flattened towards 
the ceni anthers linear-oblong, attached near the base, the cells open- 
ing o wards in longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile but tapering at the 
base, Beall 3-angled, 3-celled, with —€— ide n superposed 
in 2 rows in each cell; style short, with 8 recurved stigmatic lobes. 
Capsule oblong or ovoid, deeply 3-furrowed and “olikaaaty 3-angled, 
a septicidally in 3 valves, with marginal placentæ. Seeds angular, 
a brown thin adnate testa. Embryo small, in a fle e albumen, 
ud far fed the hilum.—Herb with a fibrous root, and simple or 
ms ma branched stem, with few narrow leaves not distichous. Rowers 
al umbel, a few outer bracts forming a small invo 
ds genus is limited to the single Australian species. 
1. B. umbellata, R. Br. Prod. 273,—Stem enclosed at the base in 
a few brown rinm of old leaves but not bulbous, 1 to 2 ft. 
high, usually simple but occasionally with 1 or 2 erect branches. 
Leaves 1 to 8 at the base of the em narrow-linear, concave, 3 to 6 in 
long, with a sheathing base, the upper leaves few, much shorter or 
reduced to dheatting bracts. Flowers several often numerous in the 
umbel, di sometimes partially centrifugally ee pem v 
rae shorter than the pedicels, which vary in w lines 
to 2 in, Perianth-segments white, oblong or elliptical, sa p 4 
lines, but from 3 to 6 lines long. Capsule when fall 
one grown 
attaining ab in.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 46; Endl. in. Pl. Preiss. 
u 44; SB. uota and B. congesta, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 58; 
Endl. Le, 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 153, 154, and others ; northward 
> (mc B River, Beckler; Richmond River, Henderson; southward to Illawarra, 
ingham 
ad enda Vale, Robertson; Port Phillip, Gunn; about Melbourne, 
D 
