718 LILIACEH. [Bulbinella. 
long, broadly ovoid. Seeds usually 2 in each cell, trigonous; testa 
black, shining.—Chrysobactron Rossii, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 72, 
t. 44, 45. Anthericum Rossii, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 285. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLANDS: Abundant. December—January. 
A most magnificent plant, excellently figured and described in the ‘ Flora 
Antarctica.’ Sir J. D. Hooker states that he has seen a specimen between 
3ft. and 4ft. high, having 3 crowns of leaves, and bearing no less than 7 
racemes of flowers. In some localities on Campbell Island it forms so large a 
proportion of the vegetation, and the golden-yellow flowers are so abundantly 
produced, that its presence can be observed at a distance of more than a mile 
from the shore. 
2. B. Hookeri, Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii. 784.— 
Very variable in size, usually from 1 to 2ft. high, but some- 
times attaining 3 ft., and occasionally dwarfed to 3 or 4 in. 
Leaves numerous, narrower in proportion than in B. Hoss, 4-4 in. 
broad, narrow-linear, gradually tapering upwards, channelled in 
front, glabrous. Scape much more slender than in B. LFossw ; 
racemes not so dense- flowered, varying in length from 1 to 
10in. Flowers 4in. diam., bright-yellow, hermaphrodite ; pedicels 
slender, longer or shorter than the lanceolate bracts. Perianth- 
segments linear-oblong, obtuse, spreading. Stamens # the length 
of the segments ; filaments very slender, glabrous. Capsule oblong, 
1 in. long.—Chrysobactron Hookeri, Col. in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 817 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 255; Bot. Mag. t. 4602. Anthericum 
Hookeri, Col. in Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 286. 
NortH anp SoutH Isntanps, StEwart Is~taAnp: Mountain districts from 
Lake Taupo and Mount Egmont southwards, abundant. Sea-level to 4500 ft. 
October—January. 
8. ARTHROPODIUM, RB. Br. 
Tufted perennial herbs, with fleshy fibrous roots. Leaves 
radical or crowded near the base of the stem, linear or lanceolate, 
sheathing at the base. Scape or peduncle simple or branched 
above. Flowers in simple or branched racemes or panicles, white 
or purplish ; pedicels slender, jointed at the middle, solitary or few 
together in the axil of a scarious bract. Perianth persistent but 
not twisted, 6-partite ; segments distinct, spreading, 3-nerved, sub- 
equal or the inner rather broader. Stamens 6, hypogynous or 
attached to the very base of the segments, shorter than the 
perianth ; filaments bearded; anthers linear, erect, basifixed, in- 
trorsely dehiscent. Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; ovules several in each 
cell; style filiform; stigma small. Capsule subglobose, loculicid- 
ally 3-valved. Seeds usually few in each cell, angular; testa black, 
smooth or minutely granulate. 
Besides the two species found in New Zealand, both of which are endemic, 
there are 5 or 6 in Australia, and 1 in New Caledonia. 
