Dichopogon.] CXXVII. LILIACEA. 59 
Tasmania. x Dalyrmple, R. Brown ; abundant in good soil throughout the 
"nb J. D. Hoo 
2 ustr d" hend St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller ; Yorke Peninsula, 
Ow 
This s species varies very much in stature, in ag size and shape of the scarious 
bracts, in the flowers all solitary or "all in clusters of 2 or 3, erect or pendulous, in 
the size of the perianth and length of the pedicels, but I have been AM d sort 
into distinct varieties the very numerous specimens I have had before me. 
2. Sieberianus, Kunth, Hinge: iv. 623.—Habit of the slender 
Tied pene specimens of D. strict Stems mostly about 1 ft. high, 
simple or slightly branched. yid 8 So nar lowers in clusters 
base. Appendages to the base of the anthers rather lo ong and almost 
adnate to the filament. Capsules always reflexed.— Arthropodium lacum, 
Sieb. in Rem. et Schult. Syst. vii. 441. 
S. Wales. Port Jackson or Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 194, Presa New 
Pide C. Stuart ; Head of the Gwydir, Leichhardt; Richmond, Backhouse 
Wendu Vale, Robertson 
S. Australia. St. Vincent's Gulf and Murray Desert, F. Mueller. 
Arthropodium fimbr pesce d Br. Prod. 276, of which no specimen is pre- 
served in his herbarium, is probably this prp and possibly also the pent raised 
y Salisbury, for which he ake iw 67) the generic name Sion 
in Journ. Linn. Soc 9, distinguished the two species 4n Dike 
th since seen show sid pe er i d characters are at all co t, and 
= nat R. Brown had in vie me to be Te ferable to the common form, 
and not to the closely allied Do pana by Sieb 
32, CHLOROPHYTON, Ker. 
Perianth persistent, not twisted, of 6 distinct oblong or narrow 8-, 5-, 
: T- Se ada dnd the inner ones usually rather broader. Stamen 8 6, 
Es inwards in longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, 3-celled, with 
Heel p to 20) ovules in each cell superposed in 2 rows or v 
re or less 
|; testa black, a Mine Peale with sno ye 
: ened into tubers. Leaves grass-like, radical or erowded a 
of the stem. Scapes simple or w alightiy braaa i pela 
Be or 2 or 3 together —— searious bracts, tha elusters sessile 
Scape in a terminal raceme, 
