 Libertia.] .CXXII. IRIDEX. 413 
than the filaments, with 3 linear-subulate spreading branches, stigmatic 
and minutely toothed or fringed at the end. Capsule ovoid or globular, 
3-valved, the pericarp thin. —Herbs with a short often very short lea 
base, and grass-like flat leaves almost a: thou “ee distichous. 
Flowering stems erect, "uk or branched, with 1 or 2 leaves below 
in 
o New quib d m— South America, one of the 
«The 
Australian species iis id the same as a New Zealand one, the other — The 
enus is reduced by F. ueller to Sisyrinchium, in which Brown An the first in- 
stance placed his three species; but besides the differences indicated in his Adden 
and recognised by subsequent so UM rvers, » M inflorescence gives it so distinct an aspect 
that I am unable to concur in 
Fl t paniculate, the roni iden 1 to 11 ft. high. 
Akay segments about 4 lines . 1. L. paniculata. 
Sian clusters few or solitary, he Alowering-stem. "under 1 ft. : 
Perianth-segments 2i to 3 lines lon . 2. L. pulchella. 
aniculata, Spreng. ie i. 168.. Rhizome m leafy base of 
the stem very short. Leaves almost radical, grass-like, flaccid, ? to 
1} ft. long and mostly about 3 lines broad. Stem 1 to 1l ft. h gh, with 
sometimes a short leaf below the nnna Panicle oblong loose and 
S Nat occupying often half the stem, glabrous as well as the whole 
RE slightly glandular-pa scent. Bracts membranous- 
kanion, the lower ones rather long and acuminate, those subtending 
the flowers 3 t es long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute. 
as in the non-Australian species. Filaments dilated at the base but 
not united. Style column very short, with 3 linear-subulate spreading 
branches, minutely fringed at the end. Capsule a 3 to 4 
lines diameter. —Sisyrinchium paniculatum, R. Br. 3 ell 
Fragm. vii. 91; Renealmia paaa R. Br. Prod. pte Nemato- 
stigma paniculatum, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 510. 
"S. Wal Port Jackson and A A s river, R. Brown; Saee Mountains 
Woolls, Miss Atkins on; northward to a river, Beckler; New England, C 
Stuart ; pe fae to Illawarra, A. Cunningham; Twofold bay, E “Mueller; , 
Howe, C. Walter 
Victoria. Bovey: and Genoa rivers, F. Mueller. 
. L. pulchella, Spreng. Pet i.169. A much suae plant than 
L. reet e the losh base of the stems more slender but often elon- 
gated to from 1 to 3 in. and Slightly branched. (3. gt s rarely 6 in. long 
and 2 
to 3 lines broad, often not above that size. Scape or 
