Tricoryne.] CXXVII LILIACEA. 51 
9-celled, with 2 erect ovules in each cell or lobe; style filiform, un- 
livided. oy =n to the base into 3 (reduced sometimes by abor- 
tion to 2 or 1) 1-seeded indehiscent nutlets, dry or slightly fleshy, 
strongly reticulate or ribbed. Seed black with a crustaceous testa and 
shy albumen.—Perennials with fibrous roots. Stems usually wiry 
and branching, the branches often clustered. Leaves few and grass-like, 
or all reduced to scarious scales; more rarely small and more leafy 
plants. ace} in terminal umbels with small imbricate scarious bracts, 
of which one or two outer empty ones often elongated or leaf-like. 
The genus is limited to Sota: 
Stems wiry or rush-like, branch without vno ey except 
a few at the base, iesu 1 to 2 ft. hig 
or fewer in the umbel or minal more. 
Stems bordered by narrow l. T. platyptera. 
Stems usually with clu à en gre ofa deeply striate, 
acutely iy inten o slightly flattened. 
Quite glabro rie Mea 2. T. anceps. 
Stem and sii pid . 3. T. muricata. 
. Stems less serrer bant or slightly striate... 4, T. elatior. 
Stems simple, under 1 ft., with a single many-flowered um- 
, bel, and Py ial long radical leaves. Eastern species 5. T. simplex. 
rate ae 6 in., branched and leafy, with several veg 
owered umbels, Western specie 6. T. humilis. — 
l. T. platyptera, Reich). J. Beitr. Syst. Pfllanzenk. 72.—Very near 
T. i and more deserving of that name, but as far as the specimens 
Show apparently distinct. Stems from a shortly creeping base erect or 
" arl ft. hi 
ascending, sparingly branched, X r anches 
flattened with the margins more or less winged, the total br > 
ing from 1 to 8 line eaves very fe e of stem and 
reduced to very small scales. Umbels of several, often more than 6, 
flowers, Perianth-segments 4 to 5 lines long, the pedicels nearly as 
long. Bracts under the pedicels all very small. Nutlets m 
ovoid, nearly two lines long, strongly ribbed when dry, contracted at 
ase tee} a short thick stipes.—T'. pterocaulon, Baker in Journ. Linn. 
E Sandy shores, Cape'York, Veiteh, Daemel ; Fitzroy Island, Walter ; 
Dunk Island, M'Gillivray ; Clovelund Bay, B wman ; Port Denison, Hecate Ezpe- 
reese ; gathered also in Hann’s Expedition, kid. by Frau Dietrich. I have not cae 
" Specimens, but Reichenbach's character is quite sufficient to identify the 
T R. Br. Prod. 278.—Stems erect, slender but rigid and 
vary much branched, the branches often densely clustered, the pea 
en aa aly striate, but terete or slightly compressed, the num 
ut 
r ones flattened or acutely 3- or 4-a not distinetly 
vinged. Leaves in all th imens seen ce 8 scales 
sable: f 810 6 flowers, with very s racts. Perianth-segmen 
small b nents 
Bleroe lines long, the pedicels shorter. Nutlets as large as in T. 
. — but smooth.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 363. ae 
