36 CXXVII. LILIAOEZX. [ Bulbine. 
asmania. Port Dalrymple, R. » Brown ; ; common in moist and marshy places in 
various qu of the | gi J. D. Hi 
. Cove, R. Brown; round St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller 
and other: Sotto Peninsula, Fowler ; Kangaroo Island, R. n ee Muel ller. 
W. Aus eorge's Sound and adjoining dist . Brown, F. 
Mueller, xu dh many others ; Blackwood River, Oldfield ; Lake Mui, ies; ; Rottenest 
Island, "Preiss, n. 2407. 
22. AGROSTOCRINUM, F. Muell. 
Perianth with a eampanulate persistent base, articulate above the 
ovary, with 6 poe spreading 5-nerved s wir nts, spirally twi -— after 
flowering, and at length deciduous. Stamens 6, hypogynous, slightly 
declinate, shorter than the perianth ; filaipente short, glabrous, b 
: attened ; anthers linear, longer than the filaments, openin rminal 
Ores, Ovary sessile, 3-celled, with 2 collateral erect aret in each 
«B. ; style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Capsule nearly 
globular, surrounded by the truncate persistent base of the perianth, 
3. valved. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell; obovoid or nearly pe with a 
small fugacious strophiole ; testa erustaceous, black, smooth an 
8 —Stems erect, with narrow leaves not crowded. Flowers blue 
ina loose terminal raceme, with a minute bract under each pedicel. 
The genus is limited to the single species endemic in West Australia. 
1. A. stypandroides, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 95, vii. 65.—Stems erect, 
simple, often 2 to 3 ft. high, glabrous sede but more or less scabrous- 
hirsute under the inflorescence. Leaves narrow-linear, with rather long 
sheaths, quite closed round the stem, ind flattened with an acute keel. 
owers blue and showy, the raceme simple or once branched. Pedicels 
filiform, rather distant, often above 1 in. long, usually scabrous- hirsute 
SW rhachis 
as the . Perianth 6 to 8 lines long, the campanulate 
rsistent base gid 1 ii long when in flower, 2 lines long round the 
segmen! ai 5-nerved, and equal in length, the outer ones 
more opaque, um narrow margins, the sek ones with broad nerveless 
ee Capsule on 2 lines diameter. Lied scabra, R. Br. 
. Sw 
App. B Casia sabrá, Baker in Journ . Linn. Soe. xv. 859; Arthro- 
podium scabrum, Spreng. Syst. ii. 87. 
W. Australia. Lucky Bay, R. Brown; King George's Sound to Swan River, 
A. anim, Wine lst Coll. and No. 775, 716, Pri, n. 1538, Oldfield and 
and Cape Paisley, Mazwell. Sent by F. Bari 
o 
with s a jam T4 dn bf Stypandra glauca, as the plan t called Blind grass, beca 
it is supposed to cause blindness in cattle and sheep that ai of it 
28. THYSANOTUS, R. Br. 
(Chlamyspermum, Salish.) 
Perianth spirally twisted over the ovary after flowering, but some- 
times at length deciduous, of 6 distinct segments, all nearly equal i2 
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