118 LILIACEOUS PLANTS. 
phyllum, is habitually very distant by its dilated leaves ; from 
Calochilus it differs already in the smooth labellum. The name 
designates the extreme shortness of the thus concealed column. 
The only Victorian species, Cryptostylis longifolia is by no means 
often to be met with. There remains to be considered as 
belonging to our native Flora only Corysanthes, with as yet an 
only one noticed: Corysanthes pruinosa, but perhaps others 
occur, four being known from the vicinity of Sydney, all of great 
external reemblance. These humble shade-liking plants, all 
carefully delineated by Mr. Fitzgerald in his work on Australian 
Orchids, produce a solitary tender heartshaped leaf, like Acianthus 
and Cyrtostylis, near to which a conspicuous single flower of 
dark cherry-color is seated. Corysanthes deducts its name from 
the helmet-like upper sepal, the four other sepals being quite 
diminutive, while the large labellum is ventricous or almost 
funnel-shaped, with a curvature. 
XX.—THE LILIACEOUS 
AND ALLIED PLANTS. 
Tur white Lily of Palaestine, whose glory surpassed all splendor 
of Solomon and which adorns almost any gardens even here, 
is typic of this order. Ovid’s poems let it arise from the milk of 
Juno; Virgil speaks of it in raptures, and so grand a plant must 
indeed have attracted the attention of every ancient writer. Theo- 
critos, about 250 years before the Christian time, does not call it 
by its Latin name Lilium, but gives it with other Greek writers 
the name Crinum (or Krinon), which however was applied also 
to other kinds of Lilies in the earliest literature of our race. In 
modern writing of science Crinum is confined to a genus of 
Amaryllidez, not dissimilar to that of the ordinary Lily, but 
