48 CXXVII. LILIACEX. [ Cesta, 
into spindle-shaped tubers. Tufts of leaves surrounded by long filaments, | 
the remains of old leaf-sheaths. Leaves ve rrow and shorter than | 
in C. parviflora, ms simple or branched, slender, attaining 1 ft. or - 
te | 
more. Flowers and all other characters precisely those of C. parviflora. _ 
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 638. | 
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26. CHAMJESCILLA, F. Muell. 
Perianth spirally twisted over the ovary after flowering but at length | 
deciduous, of 6 oblong spreading 8-nerved nearly equal segments. - 
crustaceous, smooth and shining. Glabrous perennials, with fibrous 
roots often thickened into tubers. Leaves radical, grass-like. Sea 
eafless, bearing a dichotomous corymb or thyrsoid panicle of blue 
flowers. Pedicels solitary within searious bracts. 
The genus is limited to Australia, showing the perianth of Cesia, with the fruit and 
seeds of Chlorophyton. 
Inflorescence loosely corymbose. Perianth about 4 lines long 1. C. corymbosa. 
orescence compact, almost thyrsoid. Perianth about 5 lines La 
NES ae o o xA xL. T 2. C. spiralis. 
iole ; which 1s 
again shortly dilated at the base into a scarious sheath. Scapes varying 
fr with only 1 or 2 flowers, to above 6 in. and bearing à 
s i ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 360; 
C. versicolor, Lindl. Swan Riy. App. 57; Endl. in PI. Preiss. ii. 84. 
i bi es throughout the island, J. D. Hooker. 
S. Australia. Hound St. Vincent's and Spencer’s Gulfs, F. Mueller and others. 
W.A ia. King George's Menzies; and thence to Swan River, 
Drummond, lst coll. and n. 804, Oldfield, Preiss, n. 1545, and others. 
2. C. spiralis, F. Muell. Fragm, vii. 68.— Very near the C. corym- - 
bosa, and perhaps a variety only. Radical leaves not numerous, often 
