Phormium. | LILIACER. TLE 
Raoul, Choi, 41; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 286. P. Forsterianum, Col. 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iii. (1844) 8. P. Hookeri, Gunn in Bot. 
Mag. t. 6973. 
Nort anp SouruH Isnanps: Not uncommon from the North Cape to 
Fovyeaux Strait. Sea-level to 4000 ft. Wharariki. November-—January. 
The small size, pale colour, yellowish flowers, and long twisted capsules 
distinguish this from P. tenax ; but it is in some respects an ill-defined species, 
including several forms respecting which additional information is required. 
One of these, figured in the ‘‘ Botanical Magazine’’ under the name of P. Hookeri, 
is remarkable for its flaccid much recurved leaves with long fissured tips. Sir 
J. D. Hooker considers that it is more different from P. tenax and P. Cookia- 
num than they are from one another; but his plate shows the floral characters 
to be very similar to those of P. Cookianum. 
7. BULBINELLA, Kunth. 
Perennial herbs. Rootstock short, stout, with numerous fleshy 
almost tuberous roots. Leaves all radical, numerous, linear, 
sheathing at the base, often fleshy. Scape simple or very rarely 
branched, naked, terminating in a dense many-flowered raceme. 
Flowers rather small, yellow or white. Perianth marcescent, 6- 
partite ; segments subequal, distinct or slightly connate at the base, 
l-nerved. Stamens 6, hypogynous or adnate to the base of the 
segments ; filaments subulate-filiform ; anthers versatile. Ovary 
subglobose, 3-celled ; style filiform; stigma small, capitate, ob- 
scurely 3-lobed; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule broadly ovoid or 
subglobose, membranous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 
few, often compressed and triquetrous ; testa black. 
About 14 species are known, all confined to South Africa with the exception 
of the two described herein. 
Very stout. Leaves often 2in. broad; scape 2-3 ft. high. 
Flowers dicecious ie ee oe et LB eLtOSS20. 
More slender. Leaves {-$in. broad; scape 1-2 ft. high. 
Flowers hermaphrodite : ie Hs .. 2. B. Hookert. 
1. B. Rossii, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. ii. 784.—A stout 
perennial herb Qin. to 3ft. high; stems sometimes 14 in. diam. at 
the base. Leaves numerous, all radical, outer spreading or re- 
curved, inner ascending, 6in. to 2ft. long, $-2in. broad, broadly 
ensiform, obtuse or subacute, fleshy, glabrous, concave above, finely 
striate. Scape stout, erect, terete, }-tin. diam. Raceme very 
stout and dense, 3-—6in. long, 1—24in. diam. Flowers nu- 
merous, very densely crowded, bright-yellow, polygamo-dicecious, 
4in, diam. ; pedicels slender, erect, 4-2 in. long ; bracts lanceolate. 
Perianth-segments linear-oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, spreading 
in the male flowers, more erect in the female. Stamens of the 
male flowers shorter than the segments; filaments subulate, terete, 
glabrous; anthers oblong. Ovary of the females broadly ovoid; 
style short, stout; stigma small, obscurely lobed. Capsule +-3in 
