Arthropodium. | LILIACE. 719 
Tall and stout, 1-24ft. Leaves ane 1-2in. broad. 
Flowers ?- -1in. diam. . IL. A. cirrhatum.. 
Slender, 3-12in. high. Leaves grassy, flaccid, tom tin. 
broad. Flowers }in. diam. . -. 2. A. candidum. 
1. A. cirrhatum, Ff. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2350.—A perfectly 
glabrous tufted herb 1-3 ft. high; root with copious long fleshy 
fibres. Leaves numerous, spreading, 1-2 ft. long, 1-24in. broad, 
lanceolate or pbinnceulate! acute or acuminate, narrowed to an 
equitant and subdistichous base, flat or obtusely keeled, rather 
fleshy. Scape stout, terete, naked; panicle large, often Lit. long, 
oily much branched ; primary bracts broad, foliaceous. Flowers 
. white, 2-1 in. diam., 1- 3 together along the branches of the panicle ; 
pedicels 4-2 in. long. Perianth- segments oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
minate. Filaments filiform at the base, provided above the 
middle with a thickened densely woolly appendage, which is pro- 
duced downwards into 2 woolly tails. Capsule oblong-globose, 
4in. long. Seeds black, opaque, angular.—A. Cunn. Precur. 
n. 299; Raoul, Choix, 40; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 254; Handb. 
N.4. Fl. 285. Anthericum cirratum, Forst. Prodr.n. 148; A. Rich. 
Fl. Nowv. Zel. 155. 
Nortu Istanp: From the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape to 
Wellington, not uncommon, especially near the sea. SourH Istanp: Nelson— 
Takaka, Kingsley; West Wanganui, Aursthouse. Rengarenga. November— 
December. 
This differs from the other species of the genus in the woolly thickening at 
the middle of the filament being 2-lobed at the base, the lobes being revolute at 
the tip, somewhat after the fashion of a tendril, from whence the specific name. 
2. A. candidum, Raoul, Choix Pl. Now. Zel. 14, t. 6.—A 
small slender glabrous herb 3-14 in. high; stem often swollen below 
the leaves and almost bulbous; roots long, fleshy. Leaves variable 
in length, 2-10in. long, es in. broad, very narrow-linear, flat, 
grassy, membranous and flaccid. Scape very slender; raceme 
simple, rarely branched, usually overtopping the leaves. Flowers 
few or many, usually secund, solitary or the lower ones in twos or 
threes, white, +in. diam. ; pedicels slender, spreading or drooping ; 
bracts long, linear- lanceolate, acuminate. Filaments naked at the 
base, then “densely hairy almost up to the anther. Capsule globose, 
membranous, + in. ae Seeds 2-3 in each cell, black, angled.— 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. . 254; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 285. A. reflexum, 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xviii. (1886) 275. A. ramulosum, Col. l.e. 
xxv. (1893) 337. 
Norte anp SoutH Isuanps: From Cape Colville southwards to Foveaux 
Strait, not uncommon. Sea-level to 3500 ft. November—January. 
I cannot see upon what grounds Mr. Colenso has distinguished his two 
species. The type specimens in his herbarium exactly match ordinary states of 
A. candidum, 
