170 FLORA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 
Flowers very numerous in dense cylindrical terminal 
spike; sepals glume-like; petals membranous with 
white spreading tips. More or less arborescent 
and palm-like; leaves very long, rigid, sharp-pointed 
Burehardia. 
Leaves few, narrow-linear, concave; flowers white, 
tinged with pink 
Wurmbea. 
Leaves few, filiform; flowers white or pink, with a 
dark band, few.. : net 
Xerotes. 
1. Male flowers sessile in clusters of a whorled 
panicle; capsule smooth. 
Bracts narrow, often elongate and pungent; sepals 
free, brown; petals shortly united, ange leaves 
mostly 2 -toothed at the apex .. 
Bracts obtuse and short; sepals free; copia lee: 
3 stamens adnate to the centre of the corolla- lobes, 
3 alternate adnate to tube 4 
11. Male flowers stalked, clustered in simple 
whorls. 
Bracts small, very short; petals yellow; capsule wrink- 
led whe nae sas ss 
1. Male flowers scattered in racemes or panicles. 
Flowers almost sessile, comparatively large, yellow ; 
leaves 2-toothed at the apex ; eet longitudinally 
striate. Panicle spreading 
Flowers minute, conspicuously saiiceds eae es very 
narrow or almost filiform ; panicle ‘jarrow or re- 
duced to a single raceme. Capsule smooth. 
Petals and sepals greenish-yellow or brownish, 
equal, very spreading 
Petals yellow, rather thick, ovate; sepals at 
thinner and shorter .. ay s oes Se 
Iv. Male flowers in actin srdheels terminal 
or in interrupted spikes. 
Leaves on the stems, as well as radical. 
Petals bright-yellow, male flowers in spikes; cap- 
sule slightly wrinkled; leaves under 6 in., some- 
times slightly twisted; female flowers in sessile 
heads ... 3 
Xanthorrhoea 
umbellata 
dioica 
longifolia 
dura 
Brownti 
effusa 
micrantha 
Thunbergié 
glauca 
