458 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDE. [ Calostemma. 
Tg ees Rockhampton, Thozet, O'Shanesy; Barcoo, Schneider; Darling 
owns, La 
OW. S. Wales. Sree river, Mitchell ; Piai ot Plains, ei r itp d E 
reagh river, Woolls; Lower Darling river, Mrs. Ford; thence p n Creek, 
Neilson; Mount serus iain? ‘Mount atl f Douall 
The dien attempted to be drawn from the teeth of the corona ed from 
articulation or dpi ei of the podioels mas in AR same plant; the articulation 
appear only wheu the flowering is advanced; e specimens I see no trace of i 
n others it is very distinct ui some but em all. of "the pedicels. 
3. C. album, R. Br. Prod. 298. Leaves resembling those of vaio 
mi out smaller, ovate, acute, tapering at the base, 3 to 5 
long, 2 to 3 in, broad, with distant. converging primary veins aui | 
transverse vaka. Scapes 1 to ljft. high, bearing an um mbel of 
numerous white flowers on filiform pedicels of 1 to 11 in. surrounded by 
ong; segments of 
ln Sapta Fruit lobular, rather la 
N. Australia. Turtle island, Gulf of eo R. Brown.—A remarkable 
species vhi ta (Ru of Calostemma and the leaves of Eurycles 
Orpver CXXIV. TACCACEÆ. 
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to the obes; filaments broad, hood-shaped, shortly 2-lobed at the end; 
anther-cells 2, parallel, adnate to the inside of the hood and projecting 
between the lobes. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, “Styl 2 arietal placentas 
and many anatropous or a amphitropous ovules. short, with a broa 
umbrella-shaped stigma deeply divided into 3 Tiid d lobes. Fruit a 
or fibrous rhizome. Leaves radical, on lo ag gere te and much 
low 
scape in a dense terminal simple um el, aalr itera dd with long 
filaments ras pedicels), and surrounded by an involucre of a few 
large thin bracts. 
The Order is limited to a single genus, represented in the tropical regions of the New 
as well as the Old World. ‘The only Australian species has a wide range over the Indian 
Archipelago and the Islands of the South Pacific. 
l. TACCA, Forst. 
Characters and distribution itas 4 the Order. 
, Forst.; Kunth, Enum. v. 458. Rhizome tube- 
^ globular, attaining under Ks ere a en size but not above 
