58 CXXVII. LILIACER. 
31. DICHOPOGON, Kunth. 
Perianth persistent but not twisted, of 6 spreading segments, nearly 
equal in length, but the inner ones much broader and sometimes slightly 
erisped or fringed on the edges. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the 
perianth or almost hypogynous, shorter than the segments; filaments 
short, flattened at the base, not bearded; anthers longer, erect, linear, 
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(and sometimes shortly adnate to it ?); the cells opening inwards in 
longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, 8-celled, with several ovules in each 
ell superposed in 2 rows; style filiform, with a terminal stigma. 
Capsule globular, 3-valved. Seeds several, angular, black, the testa 
The genus is limited to Australia. It was formerly included in Arthropodium, and 
may perhaps still be considered as a section only, distinguished by Kunth as having 
the appendages to the stamens attached to the anthers and not to the filament. 
Capsules erect, Anther-appendages very short. . . . . 1. D. strictus. 
Capsules reflexed. Anther-appendages rather log. . . . 2. D. Sieberianus. 
Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2 or 9 within each braet, and when 
more than one accompanied by small bracteoles within the braet, the 
clusters distant along the rhachis. Pedicels erect spreading or recurved, 
Sieb. ; Dichopogon humilis, Kunth, Enum. iv. 623, and probably also 
D. setosus, Kunth, 1. e. 624; D. undulatum, Beg. Gartenfl. ii. 1, £. 87 
ae pelles ce Bay, Fitzalan; Darling Downs, Leichhardt; Rock- 
b Paramatta, Woolls; Bath 5 i T 
M*Arthur; Goyinga Mountains, Victorian roe ia A. Cunningham; Nangas, 
m the Glenelg River and P :ln ta ndi 
F. Mueller, and many others. s ort Phillip to the Murray, Robertson, 
