Hypoxis.] AMARYLLIDE. 701 
The ornamental species are very numerous, the principal genera being Narcissus, 
Galanthus (snowdrop), Lewcoiwm (snowflake), Hippeastrum, Amaryllis, Vallota, 
‘Crinum, Alstremeria, Agave, Fourcroya. The single genus found in New Zea- 
dand is widely diffused. 
1. HYPOXIS, Linn. 
Small herbs. Rhizome bulbous or tuberous, coated with a 
membranous or fibrous sheath. Leaves radical, narrow, flat or 
‘terete, often hairy. Scape 1- or many-flowered. Perianth regular, 
‘tube wanting; segments 6, nearly equal, spreading. Stamens 6, 
inserted on the base of the segments and shorter than them; 
anthers erect, linear or oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; 
ovules numerous in each cell, 2-seriate; style short, columnar; 
stigmas 3, stout, erect, distinct or connate. Capsule globose or 
oblong, membranous, 3-valved or circumscissile below the top. 
Seeds small, subglobose ; testa crustaceous, shining, usually more 
or less beaked at the hilum. 
Species over 50, mainly confined to southern or tropicil Africa, a few only 
‘in Asia, Australasia, or America. 
1. H. pusilla, Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. ii. 36, t. 1308.—Very small, 
1-2in. high. Rhizome globose, bulb-like, clothed with the setose 
remains of the old leaves, 4in. diam. Leaves 3-6, 4—2in. long, 
filiform, wiry, flexuous, grooved down the inner face, base widened 
into a scarious sheath. Scapes shorter than the leaves, 1-3-flowered. 
Flowers small, 4in. diam. Perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, 
acute. Stamens short, not half as long as the perianth-segments ; 
anthers linear, basifixed. Stigmas lanceolate, free. Capsule glo- 
bose, $in. diam.— Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 275; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vi. 449. H. hygrometrica, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 253 (not of Lf. 
Br.). 
Norru Istanp: Hawke’s Bay, Colenso. SoutH Istanp: Marlborough— 
Sandy ground near the mouth of the Wairau River, J. Macmahon! Canter- 
bury—Banks Peninsula, Travers, Armstrong! Cockayne! Canterbury Plains, 
Armstrong ! November-April. 
Probably not uncommon on the eastern side of the South Island, but very 
easily overlooked. Also a native of Victoria and Tasmania. 
Orper LXXXII. LILIACEZA. 
Perennial herbs, rarely shrubs or trees. Root fibrous, or rhi- 
zome tuberous or bulbous or creeping. Stem herbaceous or woody, 
erect or climbing, tall or scarcely produced beyond the radical 
leaves. Leaves usually in radical tufts, or crowded at the ends 
of the stems or branches, or scattered along the branches, very 
various in size, shape, and texture. Flowers usually regular, her- 
maphrodite or rarely unisexual, inflorescence very various. Peri- 
anth inferior, petaloid; tube long or short; limb 6-lobed or -par- 
