710 LILIACER. [Astelia. 
Leaves 3-6ft. x #-1$in., conspicuously 3-nerved and 
plaited. Female scape prostrate in fruit. Flowers 
tin. long. Berry 4in. diam., globose, red .. .. 4. A. trinervia, 
Leaves 2-5 ft. x 14-23in., conspicuously 3-nerved, not 
plaited. Flowers large, narrow, 4in. long. Female 
scape not prostrate in fruit. Berry tin. diam., globose, 
red sie 5. A. Solandri. 
** Perianth enlarged in fruit, coloured within. 
Leaves 2-6ft. x 4-4in., 3-nerved. Flowers 41n. long, 
dark purplish-green. Female scape very stout, erect in 
fruit. Berry ovoid-globose, 4-%in. diam., orange- 
yellow 6. A. nervosa. 
1. A. linearis, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 76.—A small densely 
tufted herb. Rhizome creeping, branched, clothed with the shaggy 
bases of the old leaves. Leaves terminating the branches of the 
rhizome, all radical, crowded, spreading, 1-8in. long, ,-+in. 
broad, narrow-linear, acute or acuminate, sheathing at the base, 
thick and coriaceous, nerved, often channelled above, slightly 
keeled beneath, margins recurved, both surfaces clothed when 
young with silvery or reddish-brown erect or appressed scales, 
becoming almost glabrous when old; sheaths broad, appressed, 
membranous, scarious, thickly covered with narrow hyaline silvery 
scales. Male flowers: Scape slender, equalling the leaves or 
shorter than them, simple or forked, 3-9-flowered; bracts 1-2, 
linear-elongate ; pedicels rather long, slender. Perianth-segments 
silky externally, spreading or reflexed, knobbed at the tip. Fila- 
ments much shorter than the segments; anthers oblong. Rudi- 
mentary ovary broad, narrowed into a short thick style. Female 
flowers: Scape very short, almost concealed at the base of the 
leaves, 1-5-flowered. Perianth-segments longer and narrower, 
erect. Staminodia present, minute. Ovary large, narrow oblong- 
ovoid, 1-celled ; stigma-sessile, 3-lobed ; ovules numerous. attached 
in 2 series to 3 parietal placentas. Berry large for the size of the 
plant, 4-4in. long, narrow-oblong, obscurely trigonous, fleshy, red. 
Seeds obovoid, not angled, smooth, black, shining.—Handb. N.Z. 
Fil. 284. A. minima, Col. in T'rans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 611. 
NortH aND SoutH IsLAnps, STEwaRT IstaNnD, AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL. 
Istanps: Moist ground in subalpine localities from the Kast Cape and Ruapehu 
southwards, not uncommon. Usually from 3000 ft. to 5000 ft., but descends 
to sea-level in Stewart Island and the Auckland Islands. November-January. 
2. A. Cunninghamii, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 259.—A densely 
tufted species, epiphytic or terrestrial. Leaves numerous, 2-6 ft. 
long, 4-1 in. broad at the middle, drawn out into a long acuminate 
point, contracted below, and then gradually widened into a broad 
sheathing base, rigid and coriaceous, glabrous or sparingly silky 
above, clothed with a thin silvery pellicle beneath, midrib and mar- 
gins silkv, nerves 10-12, usually one stronger than the rest on each 
