Libertia.] IRIDEX. 699: 
Stamens 8; filaments free or slightly connate at the base; 
anthers linear-sagittate, versatile. Ovary 3-celled; ovules many 
in each cell; style short, with 3 linear-subulate spreading 
branches. Capsule broadly oblong or obovoid or globose, 3 - 
valved. Seeds angled or compressed, smooth or foveolate. 
A small genus of 8 or 10 species, found in New Zealand, Australia, and 
extratropical South America. One of the New Zealand species extends to 
Australia and Tasmania, the remaining two are endemic. 
Leaves 4-tin. broad. Flower-clusters many, panicled. 
Capsule 4-4 in. long af Se Ys se 
Leaves 4-4in. Flower-clusters many, panicled. Cap- 
sule 4-?in. long... xe 25 S06 a 
Leaves ~,-4in. Flower-clusters solitary or rarely 2-3. 
Capsule globose, 4in. diam. .. Ab oe .. 3. L. pulchella. 
1. L. ixioides. 
2. L. grandiflora. 
1. L. ixioides, Spreng. Syst. i. 168.— Rhizome very short. 
Leaves numerous, densely tufted. 1-2ft. long, 4—4in. broad, 
narrow-linear, acuminate, rigid and coriaceous, striate; margins 
cartilaginous, smooth or very obscurely and minutely scabrid. 
Flowering-stem longer or shorter than the leaves, usually with 1 or 
2, cauline leaves below the inflorescence. Panicle broad; branches 
alternate from the axils of membranous sheathing bracts, bearing 
subumbellate clusters of 2-10 rather large white flowers on long 
pedicels. Perianth variable in size, 4-lin. diam.; the 3 outer seg- 
ments oblong or elliptic, often greenish on the outside ; the 3 inner 
larger and broader, broadly oblong or orbicular, pure white. 
Capsule broadly oblong or obovoid, 4-4in. long.—A. Cunn. 
recur. nm. 30(; Raoul, Chow, 41; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 
252; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 274. L. restioides, Klatt wm Linnea, 
xxxi. (1861-62) 383. Li. orbicularis, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv. 
(1883) 329. Sisyrinchium ixioides, Forst. Prodr. n. 325; A. Rich. 
Fl. Nowv. Zel. 161. Morea ixioides, Thunb. Diss. Morea, 8. Fer- 
raria ixioides, Willd. Sp. Plant. iulii. 582. Renealmia ixioides, Ker- 
Gawl. Gen. Irid. 27. Nematostigma ixioides, A. Dietr. Sp. Plant. 
ii. 510. 
Var. a.—Bracts all lanceolate. 
Var. b.—Upper bracts ovate, acute. 
NorrsH anp SourH IsLanDs, Stewart Isuanp, CHATHAM IsLANDS: Abund- 
ant from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Tukaukt. 
October-December. 
A very variable plant. Var. b appears to be rare in the North Island. 
2. L. grandiflora, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. ii. 498.—Habit of 
L. txioides, but taller and stouter, 2-3 ft. high, with leaves 1-}in. 
broad. Flowering-stem and bracts much as in ZL. ixioides. Flowers 
rather larger, the inner perianth-segments much larger and broader 
than the outer, often 3 or 4 times as large. Capsule much larger, 
