418 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDE X. 
. Hzmoporex.—Rhizome or base of the stem short and 
Mack oon fibrous roots and sometimes covered with the brown 
sheathi ing bases of old leaves so as to resemble bulbs. Leaves mostly 
radical, with distichous sheathing bases and long laterally flattened or 
terete lamine. Drs often with a few short leaves. Flowers gla- 
brous, in cymes or panicles, De reduced to a simple raceme. 
Perianth divided À the ovary into 6 segments in 2 rows. Ovules 
1 or 2 to each carpel or cell. 
1. HZEZMODORUM, Sm. 
Seeds , flat, with a wing-like margin, Dey attached to a 
Mena ice —Erect iro Red herbs, ase of the stem or rhi- 
zome sometimes thickened and enclosed in the persistent sheathing 
base of the leaves so as to r vol narrow bulbs, the fibrous roots 
ro please ie thick — spongy and often red. Leaves ety the 
The ince is iid to str lia. 
Flowers in pom globular or oblong heads on dwarf stems 
under 6 in.). Leaves nearly te 
Leaves “thick and short. Flow riim — Perianth- i à 
segments nearly equal. Tasmanian spec 1. H. distichophyllum. 
Leaves slender and long. Flower-heads oblong, usually two, 
ter perianth-segments shorter. m species . 2. H. brevicaule. 
Toros Vy edite above 3 lines long, in clusters of 2 to 40 
peus peciit and on the pedicels narrow, not sca xe 
D singly onem in a Lire ong qnid 8. H. sparsiflorum. 
Flo 
e e. 
Stout Pint of 2 to 3 ft. Outer pernticiegnente 
more than 1 the length of the inner 4. H. spicatum. 
Slender plant under 1 ft., oblong- bulbous at the base. 
Quter perianth-segments i as long as the inner . . 4. H. brevisepalum. 
vendi € nd on the pedicels broad with scarious 
Tall ved Bracts at least $ as long as the flowers. 
Flower-clusters several doen m branches of an 
nicle . : è 
6. H. paniculatum. 
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