Tricoryne,] CXXVII. LILIACER, 53 
searious or rarely 1 or 2 outer ones with fine points. Perianth-segments 
about 5 lines long.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 86 
"um Moreton Bay, Herb. F. Mueller (collector not named). 
f - Port Jackson, R. Brown, Vicary, J. D. Hooker, United States 
Jong ipid lion. 
6. T. humilis, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 86.—Stems under 6 in. high, 
shortly ‘branched and very leafy above the base, the grass-like leaves 
rather broad, and many of them exceeding the flowers. Umbels termi- 
nating axillary branehes shorter than the leaves, and all many-flowered ; 
2 or 8 of the outer bracts leaf-like and as long as or longer than the 
flowers. Perianth-segments about : lines long, the filiform pedicels 
Moa — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 362. 
ustralia. Hay District, vite n. 1605; sands of Vasse River, Oldfield ; 
Lake Muir, Muir 
29. STYPANDRA, R. Br. 
Perianth withering after flowering but not twisted, and at length 
deciduous, of 6 spreading segments usually 5-nerved, all equal and entire 
the inner ones broader. Stamens 6, hypogynous, much shorter than 
the perianth ; filaments either filiform ‘and flexuose at the base with a 
dense woolly tuft under the anther, or shortly tomentose-woolly from 
the base; anthers oblong, very much rolled back after shedding the 
pollen, Ovary sessile, 3-celled, with several ovules in dd cell; style 
(3 to 6) in each cell, ovate, more or less flattened, with a black smooth 
crustaceous testa, opaque or siu Deren eld with fibrous roots. 
Stems erect or ascending, simple below the infloreseence or branched and 
sometimes woody at the base. Leaves either all radieal or distichously 
nc um. on the stem. Flowers blue, in a very loose terminal dichotomous 
Cyme. Pedicels filiform, often 2 or 8 together and terminal or solitary 
along e bran P Braets minute or none, or the lower ones leaf-like 
in the leafy specie 
The genus is pem to Australia. 
Stems leafy to the RUN often branched at the base 
and sometimes woody l. S. glauca. 
Stems s lees except at the base. Leaves linear, i in ` dense 
8 
Leaves Sis rigid, 14 to 3 eee broad. poves blue or : 
llowish, very rarely 2. S. cespitosa. 
Leaves slender, 1 to 3 Bad or r rarely broader. ' Flowers 
usually white $0. 0. 58. 8. umbellata. 
l. S. glauca, R. Br. Prod. 279.—A leafy perennial with stems on a 
creeping rhizome sometimes low and tufted, or weak and ascending, 
under 1 ft. high, sometimes 2 or 3 ft. high, woody and branched at the 
base. Leaves distichons, the sheaths usually concealing the stem, some- 
what flattened ed with an acute keel, or almost terete, the blade erect or 
