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Thysanotus. | CXXVII. LILIACEX. 41 
Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 337, refers this to the 7. tenuis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, 
o 
it does not appear that any specimen was preserved, and the short description was 
evidently made from the drawing. The identi ity or distinctness of the two forms 
cannot therefore be determined until fresh specimens are seen 
T. scaber, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 87.— Roots fibrous without 
aii in most of the ER although in one specimen several of 
them bear tubers. Leaves not very numerous, usually rather shorter 
than the scape, thick and rather rigid, broader than in T. tuberosus, and 
expanding at the base to 2 lines in breadth. Scape stout, flattened in 
the upper part, 1 to 14 ft. high. Panicle short and rigid, the branches 
usually clustered three together, the ultimate ones bearing each an umbel 
of several flowers. Bracts 2 to 8 lines long, with a broad base, the 
inner searious braeteoles more or less united. Perianth 5 to 6 lines 
long, on pedicels of 8 to 6 lines, the ig segments with rather broad 
imbricate margins. Stamens 6, all contracted into a terminal beak, 
3 longer than the 3 others, the "yip E at least half as long as the 
anthers,—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 336. 
PME River, Drummond, aie n. 1578. Some imperfect speci- 
from paei e Bay and Cape Legrand, M well, seem almost to ae this 
spatiod with 7. diebus, ‘although Drummond's plat das: appear very differ 
ll. T. tuberosus, R. Br. Prod. 282.—Fibrous roots swollen into 
tubers more or less distant from the stock. Leaves radical, not nume- 
rous, narrow-linear, varying from quite short to at least as long as the 
e. 
rigid, terete, 6 in. to above 1 ft. high, branching into a loose irregularly 
dichotomous paniele, varying from narrow-pyramidal to almost corym- 
bose, each branch terminating in an umbel of 1 to 3 or 4 flowers, with 
sometimes a second umbel sessile on the branch rather lower down. 
Bracts bdo the branches and p lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, 
with searious margins, and usually 2 short n searious bracteoles 
(often united into one) at the pe of each pedicel. Perianths when full- 
grown 6 to 7 lines long in the larger ne Saag scarcely above 4 lines in 
a few specimens, on pedicels varying from 3 or 4 lines to twice that 
length. Stamens 6, the 3 opposite the i inner chert nearly as long as 
the perianth, ending i in a narrow beak ; the 3 others shorter, often much 
` Shorter, but the proportions very variable, and sometimes 1 or 2 of the 
mor ones fully twice the short ones.—Baker in Journ. n. Soe 
v. 885 ; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 69 ; Charsley, Wild Pl. Melb. t. . 6, fd 
T. isantherus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 655, not of R. Br. 
Australia. Islands off the north coast (Arnhem’s Land), R. Brown; 
IS 8 Land, M‘Kinlay ; Port Essington, Armstrong. 
Broad Sound, R. Brown ; ay, vnd oh om iit Mueller, and --— 
thers, to to Rockhamp’ Bowman, O Sha. others Rockingham y, 
Dallachy ; Port Curs APG nied! 
