422 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. [Hemodorum. 
nently veined leaves, and by the flowers in more compact heads or cymes, but usually 2 
or more such heads on unequal peduncles, instead of forming together only one terminal 
compact corymb. 
10. H. planifolium, R. Br. Prod. 300. Stems from a thick base 
2 to 3 ft. high, scarcely "branched below the inflorescence. Lower or 
radical leaves long, grass-like, flat, from under 2 lines to nearly 3 lines 
broad, the upper “ones few and short. Flowers numerous, of a livid 
purple c or greenish at the base, in short forked racemes or cymes col- 
ected in a compact more or less cor ym bose donee but usually looser 
than in H. coccineum. Bracts narrow, subulate-acuminate, usu rally 
longer than the pedis Perianth-segments Hidat or linear-lanceolate, 
obtuse in the bud, appearing acuminate when open the margins 
being involute, about 5 lines long, the outer ones scarcely shorter than 
the inner. Stamens much shorter than the perianth ; anthers linear, 
t as the filaments. Ovary wholly in ferior, the summit 
«idend only 3 Y protuberances. Capsule more than half superior, 
tridymous, 4 to 5 lines broad.— Bot. Mag. t. 1610. 
N. pau to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. a 
and many others; iude and oe rivers, Beckler ; Clarence river, Wilcox 
New Tires Leichha rdt, C. Stua 
The speci n some manner in inflorescence, Pad innen compact or spreading, 
the Wltimaté 1 totns fow and long or numerous and sh 
ll. H. teretifolium, R. Br. Prod. 300. Stature re eera and 
flowers rocissa those of H. planifolium, but the leav om a short 
sheathing base very long, slender, terete, or nearly ex boit 4 line 
mero 
allied species. Perianth-segments narrow and about 5 lines long, the 
outer ones scarcely shorter than the inner as in H. planifolium. 
N. NV. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Illawarra, A. Cunningham, an imper- 
fect specimen, but apparently the same as Brown's plant. 
12. H. coccineum, r. Prod. 300. Stems from a thick base 2 
to 3 ft. high, not Hatchet bite the inflorescence. Leaves at the base 
of > stem 1 to 2 ft. long, flat, 2 to 3 lines temet very finely striate, 
he upper ones few and short. Flowers numerous “red” but drying 
black, in dense cymes forming a compact bhitihal à compound m ose 
pa nicle. Airi ual linear, the outer sie es thick d and di- 
a 
or didy mous by a rtion of on 
tralia. E d he du of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne, Gulliver ; 
Upper sae am river, F. M 
nsland. Cape Yor is yo ivray, cures Veitch; Albany island, F. Mueller ; 
Vittioy island, and Monit Elliott, — ; ngham bay, very abundant, Dallachy; 
Cape river and Glenella creek, Bowm 
