60 CXXVIT. LILTACER. [ Chlorophyton. 
"There are a considerable number of species spread over the warmer regions of 
Asia and Africa. Of the two Australian ones, one has a wide range in tropical Asia, 
the other is endemic and extra 
Ovules usually more than 2 in each cell. _Fruiting opes 
longer than the ipei. Tropical species . 1. C. laxum. 
Ovules 2 in each cell. nidro IEA shorter than the cap- 
ul asmanian species . . - 2. C. alpinum. 
1. C. laxum, KR. Br. Prod. 277.—Root fibres more or less 
thickened into tubers. Leaves varying from a = long or even more 
, trun- 
cate at the top, with 2 to 6 Base in each lobe or cell. —Baker in J pé 
. Boe. xv. 328, with th re adduced ; C. x 
tinum, F. Mu ell. Fragm. i . 63 9; Phalangium vt m Wight, p^ 
t. gd Phalangium larum, F. Muell. Fragm. vii i 
Australia. Arnhem S. Bes R. Brown; Sea alt F. Mueller. Widely 
ed over tropical Asia and Africa 
alpinum, Baker`in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 329.—Roots fibrous 
without tubers in the specimens seen, the plant otherwise closely 
resembling the small specimens of C. laxum. Scapes simple, 1 to 2 in. 
Segments 2 to 2} € long. Capsule as large as in C. laxum, but not 
seen ae ripe. Ovules only 2 in each cell in the pde rs pr: ned. 
Tasmania. Western COEM yen 
33. E OR Hook. f. 
Pisis: from below the middle upwards. Stamens 6, attached to the 
base of the perianth and shorter than the segments; filaments filiform, 
anthers linear, erect, the cells opening inwards in longitudinal slits, Ovary 
sessile ~~ neos with several ovules in each cell; style filiform, 
with a al stigma. Fruit apparently capsular.—A dwarf stemless 
plant vith solitary flowers almost sessile within the tufts of leaves. 
The genus is limited to the e single Australian w Zealand. 
In habit s ad inflorescence it differs aiba Bom all cher seria en but 
might perhaps be compared to Ba. 
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