34 CXXVII. LILIACER. [ Burchardia, 
Tasmania. Northern parts of s island, Gunn and others. 
S. Australia. Very abundant from s Mis cent’s Gulf to the Murray, Behr, F. 
Mueller, : cud Std rg aero 
g George’ E Rodi o Swan and Murchison Rivers, 
Drinin. lst coll. segs n. ». 783; on n. 1604, in 1608, and others 
variations in the size of the flowers are nearly n: observable in all the 
co. Pone some of the Swan River specimens are in every respect pU most luxuriant, 
but others again are as starved and small-flowered as any eastern o 
ANTHERICEE. Perianth segments free or very shortly 
TRIBE 9. 
united at the base. Style undivided, with a small terminal entire or 
slightly idees stigma. Stock not bulbous. Flowers racemose, pani- 
culate or umbellate, rarely solitary. Bracts thinly scarious usually 
hyaline or Est not glume-like. 
21. BULBINE, Linn. 
Perianth deciduous, of 6 equal segments, free or slightly connected at 
the base. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the perianth, and shorter 
than its segments ; filaments filiform or shortly dilated at the base, 
bearded above the middle by a dense tuft of filiform or clavate hairs; 
anthers oblong-linear, usually recurved or twisted after shedding the 
Seeds few, angular, black, the ‘testa opaque, smooth or tubercular- 
ulate.—Perennials, with fibrous roots proceeding sometimes from à 
thick tuber under the stock. Leaves radical or crowded at the base of 
the stem, with short sheaths. Scape simple, leafless, ending in a sim simple 
raceme of yellow flowers, the pedicels so vx within a searious bract, 
and articulate immediately under the flower 
Besides the two 
o sque endemic in Australia, there are a indui adds number 
Perianth usually about 4 in. jong on or more. All the filaments ` 
bearded. Root oftentuberous. . . . . . . . . 1. B. bullosa. 
Perianth about i in. Only the 3 pese filaments bearded. 
No tuber to the root . . . . . .. . . . . 4 29. B. eemibarbata. 
obscurely 3-nerved centre. Filaments all equal or the inner ones longe - 
the tuft of hairs sometimes very short immediately under the anther E 
