459 | XXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [Hypoxis. 
TRIBE 4. AcGAvEX.— Tall often woody plants. Radical leaves 
usually numerous, either flat and thick or channelled or terete; stems 
also frequently lea Flowers usually e in terminal compound 
heads or thyrsoid pentalca, Perianth staan, very petaloid, usually 
10. DORYANTHES, Corr. 
Perianth of 6 nearly equal deciduous segments spreading = near 
the base; the 3 inner ones slightly dilated at the base. Stamens 6; 
filaments linear-subulate or slightly dilated at the base ; onthe este 
gated, the basal lobes closing over the filament. B ;le elongated, 3- 
furrowed, with an obtuse terminal 3-angled sti Capsule oblong- 
clavate or turbinate, with a woody endocarp opening loculicidally in 
3 valves. Seéds flat, reniform, in 2 rows in each cell.—Very tall herbs, 
with clustered roots and very long and numerous radical leaves. Stems 
empecen with short lea lowers large, red, in d spikes collected 
a large terminal Cobi head or oblong thyrsu 
o m is limited to Australia. Its nearest connexions are South African and 
Ameri 
Flow id ne wá tek 1 ft. diameter. Perianth-segments 
n. lon 
è ,oblong lin ear, 4 1. D. excelsa. 
ower- às LJ 3 ft. ft, long. Perianth- h-segments oblong: Janceo- i : 
late, 2 in. lon 2. D. Palmer. 
excelsa, Correa in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 218, t. 23,24. Radical 
tates « "es 100, ” about 4 ft. long, * broadly sword- shaped.” Stem 
attaining 10 to 18 ft., with numerous short linear-lanceolate erect 
leaves d er t 
head of 1 ft. diameter, surrounded b en acuminate leafy 
bracts or floral leaves, the spikes or ilustils PR 
de 
flow wers each, subten d by coloured lanceolate bracts, the rhachis 1 to. — 
N. S. Wales. Po rt Ja ín Bas. cere s river, R. op Geet ae Leich- 
hardt.—W. Hill mentions a white- fore variety which he found on Mount Linds say. 
2. D. Palmeri, W. Hill. Radical leaves “above 100," 5 to 6 ft. 
long and 2 to 23 in. broad in the broadest de art. Stem 6 to 8 ft. high, 
with linear-lanceolate acute leaves like tho ap D. excelsa. Flowers 
red, in an oblong terminal thyrsus about 3 ft 1 ong, the rhachis and 
bracts of ioe same rich colour as the flowers, the spikes not close toge- 
dier, each with a thick short rhachis bearing 3 or 4 flow wide Bracts 
acuminate, os outer one of each spike as long as the flower, those sub-, 
tending the — short. Perianth- segments desde cad mii pale: 
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