68 'CXXVII. LILIACE. 
: 
98. JOHNSONIA, R. Br. 
Perianth withering after flowering but at length deciduous, of 6 
equal 8- or 5-nerved segments. Stamens 3, attached to the base of the 
inner segments and shorter than the perianth; filaments shortly dilated 
d connate at the base, tapering upwards; anthers linear, erect, con- 
tinuous with the filament, the cells opening inwards in longitudinal slits. 
Ovary 3-celled, with two ovules in each cell, one erect the other pen- 
dulous ; style filiform, with a terminal small stigma. Capsule nearly 
globular, opening loculicidally in 8 valves. Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell, 
oblong or ovoid, the funicle thickened into a black strophiole ; testa crus- 
taceous, black, smooth, and shining. Embryo linear, straight.—Tufted 
bracts, of which one or two of the lowest are, usually empty, and the 
lowest of all occasionally produced into a subulate leaf, erect and 
apparently continuous with the stem. 
. The genus is confined to West Australia. 
Glabrous, 1 ft. high or more.  Leaf-sheaths distichous. Spikes : 
13 to 2 in., the bracts not ciliate . 1. J. lupulina. 
under l ft. Le 
tichous. Spikes 2 to 1} in., the bracts cilia . 9. J. pubescens. 
3. J. acaulis. 
erect, the longest usually shorter than the stem and laterally flattened 
as in Iridew, varying in breadth from under 1 line to nearly 2 lines. 
eolate and concave, each with a single 
e perianth about half as long as the bract, 
ually smaller and empty, the lowest of 
etimes the lowest two with the midrib 
produced into an erect terete leaf of } to 1 in., all the bracts quite 
glabrous without cilia on their margin.— Bauer, Illustr. t. 1 ; Endl. m 
Pl. Preiss. ii. 40; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 86. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, Æ. Brow", 
A. Cunningham, Drummond, n. 211 and 350, Preiss, n. 1579, and many others. 
; Var. teretifolia. Leaves very narrow, terete or flat, not apparently so regularly 
distichous as in the typical form, but the specimens none of them very perfect. 
J. teretifolia, Endl. in Pl. Preiss, ii. 40. . 
Rives pri am Stirling Range, F. Mueller ; Cape Riche, Preiss, n. 1582; Swan 
2. J. pubescens, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 57.—Much smaller in all. 
j hirsute. Leaves. 
its parts than J. lupulina, and more or less pubescent or 
not distichous fla 
