720 | LILIACE. [Herpolurion. 
9. HERPOLIRION, Hook. f. 
A dwarf perennial herb. Rhizome slender, creeping, branched. 
Leaves crowded on short shoots from the rhizome, all radical, 
linear, distichous, sheathing at the base. Flower solitary, terminal, 
almost sessile amongst the leaves. Perianth funnel-shaped, per- 
sistent, 6-partite; segments distinct, linear, subequal, 5-nerved. 
Stamens 6, attached to the base of the segments and shorter than 
them ; filaments filiform; anthers linear, erect, twisted after flower- 
ing, cells introrse, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary subglobose, 
sessile, 3-celled; ovules several in each cell; style filiform; stigma 
terminal, punctiform. Capsule globose, enclosed in the persistent 
perianth, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds oblong, subcom- 
pressed, quite smooth; testa black, crustaceous. 
A monotypic genus confined to the mountains of New Zealand, Tasmania, 
and south-eastern Australia. 
1. H. nove-zealandiz, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 258.—Small, 
often forming broad patches in subalpine swamps. Leaves crowded, 
flat or involute, linear, striate, glaucous; the outer spreading or 
recurved, 1-24in. long; the inner much shorter, reduced to erect 
lanceolate sheathing bracts. Flower almost sessile, large for the 
size of the plant, 4—#in. long, lilac-blue or white. Perianth-seg- 
ments erect below, spreading from a little below the middle. 
Stamens about half as long as the segments; filaments flattened, 
pubescent ; anthers shortly sagittate at the base. Capsule globose. 
trigonous, +-4in. diam.— Handb. N.Z. Fl. 287. H. Tasmanie, 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 11. 54, t. 1328. 
Norto Isuanp: Plains near Taupo, Colenso! Tryon! near Tongariro, 
A. Hill! T. F. C.; Whakaki, Hawke’s Bay, Bishop Williams! SoutH IsLAnD, 
Stewart IstAnp: Not uncommon in subalpine swamps throughout. Usually 
from 2000 ft. to 4000 ft., but descends to sea-level in Otago and Stewart Island. 
December—January. 
10. IPHIGENIA, Kunth. 
Small glabrous herbs. Bulb tunicated. Stem simple, erect. 
Leaves few, scattered, linear, sheathing the stem. Flowers small, 
erect, solitary or corymbose. Perianth 6-partite, deciduous; seg- 
ments free, all similar, linear or linear-oblong, spreading, flat. 
Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter than the perianth ; filaments flat ; 
anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary superior, sessile, 3-celled; ovules 
numerous in each cell; styles 3, shortly connate at the base, linear, 
recurved, stigmatic along the inner edge. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 
3-6-sulcate, 3-celled, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds small, glo- 
bose; testa thin, brown, appressed. 
Besides the New Zealand species, which is endemic, there are two from 
India, one of which is also found in Australia, and one each from tropical 
Africa and Madagascar. 
