Chamescilla.] CXXVII. LILIACES. 49 
surrounded by long filaments the remains of old leaf-sheaths, linear or 
almost linear-spathulate, 1 to 2 in. long in our specimens, contracted 
into a petiole, with scarious sheathing bases at least 1 in. long. Scapes 
under 1 ft. high, straight or flexuose, terminating in a small paniele 
much more compaet and thyrsoid than in C. co? dg the lower branches 
bearing 2 or 8 flowers, the uppermost only single ones.  Pedicels 
filiform Perianth. -segments about 5 lines long. Aution shortly oblong, 
recurved affer shedding the pollen. Ovules rather numerous in each 
cell. Capsule not seen ripe, but apparently smaller than in C. corymbosa, 
with seeds similarly flattened.—Cesia spiralis, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 84 ; 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 8 
W. Australia. Drummond, n. 805; pin Royal Harbour, Preiss, ». 1543 
Stirling Range, F. Mueller ; Bremer r Bay, Max 
Cesia paradoxa, Endl. i dE Preiss. ii. 34 ; = i er in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 361, 
may be a starved specimen of the same species, and at any ds is not otherwise 
determina ble. 
27, CORY NOTHECA, F. Muell. 
Perianth spirally twisted over the ovary after flowering but at length 
deciduous, of 6 spreading apr ie all nearly equal in length, the inner 
ones rather broader. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the perianth 
and shorter than the rage the 3 opposite the inner segments longer 
e 3 others; filaments filiform, glabrous ; anthers ovate or oblong, 
usually shorter than the filaments, the cells opening inwards in longi- 
tudinal slits. Ovary 8-celled, with 2 or sometimes only 1 ovule in each 
cell, and all except 1 constantly rod i ps filiform, with a terminal 
a 
erect or pendulous, the funicle io) ptm into a black b trophiole ; H 
te ta black, crustaceous, minutely granulated but often shining.—Slender 
rigid much- branched herbs, eas except a few radical narrow leaves 
early harm d away, and searious scales under the branches. Flowers 
minute, so ree or rarely 2 jie i within minute bracts along the 
smaller brane 
The genus is TA to Australia. 
Branches el r clustered 2 
Perm ve See divaricate, dichotomous, o a E 
Branches einem floxuose, 0 or very ' intricately dichotomous z C. dichotoma. 
t, with. n umerous short ves acerose n 
forked vue hea hos . V E ^w 4.» - "0. UM S O 
l. C. lateriflora, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 68.— s rigid but 
thick, with numerous branches, cose n or det 2 or 8 ape, 
i ry 
minute scarious bract. Perianth 1j to nearly 2 lines 
E 
.Mo.Bot. Garden, 
1902. 
