‘700 IRIDE. [Libertia. 
4-3 in. long, broadly oblong or obovoid, yellow when fully ripe.— 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 274. LL. macrocarpa, Klatt in Linnea, xxxi. 
(1861-62) 384. Renealmia grandiflora, R. Br. Prodr. Add. 592. 
NortH anp SoutH Istanps: From the North Cape to Otago, but not so 
common as L. ixioides. October-November. 
But for the great difference in the size of the capsule this might very well 
have been regarded as a variety of L. ixioides. 
3. L. pulchella, Spreng. Syst. i. 168.—Small, slender, 3-9 in. 
high. Rhizome often elongated, sometimes branched at the top. 
Leaves 2-6in. long, ;4-4in. broad, grassy, hardly rigid, margins 
smooth or ciliolate. Scape usually longer than the leaves, bearing 
a single terminal subumbellate cluster of 3-8 small white flowers, 
or in large specimens 1 or 2 other clusters may be developed lower 
down the scape; pedicels very slender, pubescent, 3-1 in. long; 
bracts numerous, whorled at the base of the clusters. Perianth 
4-4in. diam.; segments almost equal, oblong-obovate. Capsule 
4-1in. diam., globose, membranous.—Benth. Fil. Austral. vi. 413. 
L. micrantha, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 8308; Raoul, Choix, 41; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 252; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 274. 
NortH anpD Sours Istanps, Stewart Istanp: Damp mossy places in 
hilly forests throughout, not uncommon. Sea-level to 4000 ft. November- 
January. Also in south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. 
Orper LXXXI. AMARYLLIDEZ. 
Usually perennial herbs, sometimes of large size. Rootstock 
bulbous, tuberous, tufted or creeping. Leaves generally all radical, 
narrow, not usually equitant or distichous. Flowers regular or 
slightly irregular, hermaphrodite, in terminal umbels or racemes or 
panicles, rarely solitary; peduncles or scapes naked or bracteate. 
Perianth superior, petaloid, tube long or short, limb 6-lobed or 
-partite, sometimes bearing at the throat a petaloid corona (Narevs- 
sus, &c.). Stamens 6, inserted on the perianth-tube or at the base 
of the segments and opposite to them; filaments free or united 
at the base; anthers 2-celled, versatile, introrse. Ovary inferior, 
3-celled; style filiform or columnar, stigma simple or 3-fid; 
ovules numerous, in 2 series in the inner angle of each cell, ana- 
tropous. Fruit usually a 3-celled capsule with loculicidal dehis- 
cence, rarely an indehiscent berry. Seeds generally numerous, 
sometimes reduced to 1 or 2 in each call; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
small, axile. 
A well-known and widely distributed order, found in all warm and temperate 
countries, but (like the preceding family) decidedly rare in Asia. Genera 65; 
species under 700. It includes the American aloe (Agave americana), which 
can be applied to a wonderful variety of uses. Both it and other species of 
Agave are valuable fibre-plants, A. rigida being the well-known sisal: hemp. 
