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Phlebocarya.| CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 425 
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in the specimens examined.—Endl 
, W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, F. Mueller; Capel and Vasse 
rivers, Oldfield ; Hampden, Clarke. 
Var. levis. Leaves rather long, broad, and rigid, with very few cilia only to be seen 
on the young leaves, which, however, I have never found to be absolutely without any. 
—P. levis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 43; Endl. in. Pl. in Preiss. ii. 29.—Swan river, 
Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 1558; Capel river, Oldfield. i 
9. P. pilosissima, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 23 (as a var. of P. ciliata). 
Leaves erect, rigid, mostly under 1 ft. long, flattened but under 1 line 
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Flowers about 2 lines long, the segments narrow but obtuse.  Anther- 
connective produced beyond the cells but not so much so as in P. filifolia. 
Ovary in the flowers examined completely 3-celled, but the dissepiments 
very thin and readily disappearing as the flower withers. 
3. P. fili ul 
Leaves filiform, terete, not conspicuously striate, glabrous except a few 
long cilia near the base, the longest above 1 ft. long. Panicle loose 
and few-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Bracts small, lanceolate 
Perianth about the size of. that of the two preceding species, but the 
segments narrowly acuminate. Anther-connective p reap pro- 
. Ovary more or 
less completely 3-celled, with one ascending acuminate ovule in each 
cell, 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 207, and 368. 
IBE 9. CowosTYLEX.—Rhizome short with fibrous roots, the 
base of the stem short and sometimes covered with brown sheathing 
bases of old leaves so as to resemble bulbs, or shortly branched and 
densely tufted, or rarely elongated and proliferous-branched. Leaves 
e at the base of the flowering stems, with distichous sheathing 
bases or densely tufted, the lamina long, laterally flattened or terete. 
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a in lis 
breviscapa) the limb continuous with the tube, regular or oblique, the 
lobes usually appearing uniseriate and almost 
Stamens 6. ` Stigmas very small at the end of a filiform style. : 
' The Australian genera are all endemic in West Australia, but. some South African 
and American genera are referrible to the same tribe. _ 
