Hemodorum.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. 419 
7. H. laxum. 
H. simplex. 
9o 
ower-clusters solitary or few on long peduncles 
Flowers (dark red, livid or black) above 3 lines long, very 
numerous, in dense terminal corymbose cymes. Leaves 
Perianth-segments nearly equal. 
Flowers (black) tisnally in 2 or more distinctly peduncu- 
ate compact cymes or heads. Western species . . 9. H. simulans. 
Flowers (greenish purple) forming one compact compound 
inal cyme. Eastern species 
2to3lines broad . . . . <. + .10. H. planifolium. 
Leaves slender, terete. 204 vos s) sos 1e M teretifolium, 
; *3 M 1 + 
uter 
Flowers (red ?) ina compact compound terminal cyme. 
Tropical species 
8 SES A ER NR CUP I DIE UE SIDE 
Flowers about 2 lines long, green or yellow, in panicles or 
corymbose panicle . . - +. + « + + + + + 18. H. subvirens. 
Leaves flat, rigid, and glaucous. Flowers loosely racemose 
along the branches of a spreading panicle . . . . - 
Leaves slender, terete. 
Flowers very shortly pedicellate along the branches of a 
spreading panicle. . . . ak us . . 15. H. parviflorum. 
. Flowers my: sessile along a simple rhachis . . . . 16. H. leptostachyum. 
Flowers singly pedicellate in a diebitetiodi panicle . . 17. H. tenuifolium. 
14. H. ensifolium. 
loose sheathing bracts of 4 to $ in. Flowers not many i a com act 
terminal head scarcely $ in. diameter. Perianth shortly adnate at the 
base, the segments oblong or lanceolate, about 2 lines long and a 
nearly equal. Filaments as long as the perianth, with small anthers. 
pes almost entirely superior, deeply tridymous.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 
ii. 35. 
Tasmania. Heathy ground near Port Macquarrie, Milligan. 
H. brevicaule, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 64. Stems not above 6 in. 
h d ith the broad sheathing bases of the leaves 
sometimes splitting into fibres. Radical leaves with a terete slender 
amina, sometimes 1 ft. long or even more; leaves or bracts under the 
in one two or three dense oblong heads of ł to lin., the bracts 
Within the head small. Inner perianth-segments in some specimens a 
little above 2 lines, in others nearly 3 lines long, narrow and obtuse, 
the outer ones 4 to 4 shorter. Filaments thick, nearly as long as the 
,N. Australia. Se 
Liverpool river, Gullivér. pa 
