Thysanotus. | CXXVII. LILIACEA. 45 
18. T. arbuscula, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 889.—Rhizome 
thick, horizontal, almost fleshy, with fibrous roots without tubers. 
Leaves few, short, and dying off early. Stems rather slender but rigid, 
erect, about 1 ft. high, simple and flexuose in the A er half, dichoto- 
mously paniculate in the er part; some of the s quite barren 
with the branchlets very numerous and short, the ier stems taller 
with the branchlets longer and less numerous. Umbels and flowers of 
. dichotomus, to which species this one also might be referrible, pen 
the contrast of the barren and flowering stems give it a peculiar aspect. 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. 
19. T. anceps, Lindl. sean Riv. App. 58, not of Endl.—Root and 
leaves unknown. Stems erect, leafless, rigid, branching, 1 to 14 ft. 
high, the s flattened p. bordered on each side by an acute edge 
or narrow wing, giving the whole branch a width of 1 to 2 lines. 
Umbels 2- or 8-flowered, gend solitary at the ends of the branches. 
Mines Short. Perianth about i in. Eg ng, the outer segments very 
w.—Baker in Journ. Linn. gr 9. 
W. Australia. Swan River, enis 1st coll. 
24, HODGSONIOLA, F. Muell. 
(Hodgsonia, F. Muell., not of Hook. f.) 
a Rost Abroad Leaves few, radical, Tu tories Stem 
rudi, simple, ending in a simple raceme. , Podioels filiform, each 
within a short linear or estes scarious bra 
The genus is limited to the single Australian species. 
l. H. junciformis, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 176.—Leaves few, radical, 
slender, and rush-like, 8 to 6 in. long, shortly dilated and sheathing at 
€ base, a few of the outer sheaths without any blade. Stems slender, 
i dis 2 ft. ae entirely leafless or with a single searious scale below the 
