38 CXXVII. LILIACEA. [ Thysanotus. 
Belia: leaves d Ey numerous, often long. Umbels 
y nm 
Raves ithe “thick, Panicle short, rigid, prea 
bra: ove Bracts 2 to 3 lines long. Weste 
m 
e 
. T. scaber. 
Leaves very narr ow. Panicle loose. Bracts 1 to 2 
lines long. Species chiefly Eastern or Southern. 
Stamens e eem ed neis than the others . ll. T. tuberos 
Stamens vici ual 19 E peste 
Leaves Pr Panicle  thyrsoid, much- 
branched Hs compact but slender. Western 
mn 
el 
speci . T. thyrsoideus. 
Stock and ens unknown. , Unbels fow-flowered s several 
sessile along the upper part of a simp or slightly- 
bran ecl scape, with broad white i ^ Bouton 
. T. Baueri. 
pus 
"3 
spec 
Roots peche ` Leaves fev. ‘Stem ‘twining, often much 
ranched and intrica 15. T. Patersoni. 
Stock thick, usually horizontal. No tubers. Leaves few, ; 
eeu — prai a early. Umbels mostly termi- 
nal, 1 
Stems with Mops PETRA terete branches. Eastern 
speci 16. T. junceus. 
Stems EE terete, the. branches sometimes — 
cie mi Western s spe cies . 17. T. dichotomus. 
Flowering stems as A £ pE, ‘but others flower- 
less from the same stock, with a compact panicle of 
pea etane short didhobanisns branchlets. Western 
. 18. T. arbuscula. 
Stems rigid, ‘flattened, with the margins ‘acute or 
winged. Western species . 19. T. anceps. 
SERIES 1. TRIANDRÆ. Stamens 3 on ' Stock in = the species 
tufted, with numerous radical leaves shorter than the st 
1. T. multiflorus, R. Br. Prod. 285.—Stock ae tufted, with 
Se Miser ipet tubers. Leaves all radical, numerous, d densely 
long cid an oni dtimes exceeding e scape in luxuriant specimens 
of the var. prolifer. -Scapes simple, 6 in. to 1 ft. or rarely 11 ft. high, 
bearing a single terminal umbel of numerous flowers, or rarely a second 
one lower down. Pedicels usually longer than the perianth. Perianth- 
segments about 6 lines long, the outer ones very acute, the inner gv 
d Stamens 3 only, opposite the inner segments, with short flat 
filaments; anthers equal, about half as long as the p —Baker in 
Four: Linn. Soc. xv. 340; F. Muell. Fragm. vii 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Bazter F. neers and thence 
to Swan River, Drummond, lst coll., Preiss, Joldfeld, an d others 
Var. prolifer. A eren form, with long narrow leaves "pee & large many- 
flowered terminal um rg iets a second one rather lower down.—T, pro- 
ose , Lindl. Bot. Rog. 1838, t. 8; Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 38, Maund, Botanist, 
La m d rige Preiss, A. sine i nd 1573 
rf. . iss. ii. 38 8 ver Preiss, n. , 
is | what appears to be small starved prota gh ara multiflorus, with 
bra Sens 
