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Hypocis.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJ. : 451 
with fibrous scales, but somewhat larger in proa Leaves filiform, 
rarely above 3 in. long, with short scarious sheathing bases. Sca 
rarely 1 i in. fous , usually with 2 rm setaceous bracts above - middle, 
,b in 
our vm imens. Pevinnthsements scarcely 2 lines long. wer: rs 
stamens ‘dial shorter ut the nother Odpsilb obe nearly 14 
lines aes constricted win the perianth. 
Vic Wendu bees Robertson; the capsule rather more obovoid, but distinctly 
contracted into a short ne 
-Tas Circular Head, Gunn. 
The spe species is also in New Zealani 
. H. leptantha, Benth. A small species, with the subulate leaves, 
short mite scapes with setiform bracts of H. pusilla, and the stamens 
as 1n that species alternately smaller with gil "acis but the 
Ps and capsule are long and narrow, the nth-segments nar- 
rower and more acute, the inner ones considerably smaller than the 
outer, 2 - sens lobes long and narrow 
w. Mares Oldfield ; iiu flats, C. Gray; Upper Hay 
river, Foe belg 
Should the prion diee from the inedaaitr of thej iet ani onter perianth- 
segments and stamens, and the length of the stigma ed at omy es prove to be inconstant, 
this may have to be reduced 2 x variety of H. occident 
9. H. occidentalis, Benth. Meany allied to H. glabella, equally gla- 
brous, wii a balk like rhizome and narrow leaves with scarious sheathing 
capsule linear, often 2 in. long and very n 
3 to 4 lines | nner ones rather Kaallar than the outer; the 
the 
‘parts of the raya frequently but not MET, d trom 6 to 4. 
Anthers linear, very shortly lobed at the base. yles dort short, with 
octo ate papi illose almost plumose lobes, Medi exceeding the fila- 
m 
Australia, King George's Sound and adjoining districts, F. Mueller, Meir, 
Pied Warburton 
R. Br. Prod. 989. Leaves Y hairy, flat 
me only 2 or 3 in., 
ustralia. — of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 1 
imens , but quite distinct from any others known to e, whether 
y few, 
from I d the f Australia. An imperfect me 
agia or De ee pars iFirst ied ite it has only one imperfect 
h 
Darwi z, n. 641, appears 
a leaf, and d do not see the long hairs of 
one, already in uit, has the long narrow capsule of M. occide 
