GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Male flowers on a short, simple or branched scape; 
leaves 1 foot long; female heads shortly stalked ; 
bracts scarious long-pointed 
Leaves radical, or nearly so, 1 to 2feet; scapes bherter, 
with flower- heads, terminal, scattered or spicate ; 
petals white; capsule smooth 4 
Leafless except sheathing scales; root creeping; scapes 
tufted, a few fertile with terminal heads; barren 
scapes rush-like, pointed; capsule 3-furrowed, 
smooth fa fe ‘ 
Dianella. 
Stems almost leafless; leaves long, comparatively nar- 
row, smooth at the margin. 
Anthers almost black; leaves rigid with revolute 
margins; clasping leaf-stalks closed, keeled; 
berry black, globular 
Anthers yellow ; leaves flat, esseiae hase lutte 
open at the summit; berry white, globular 
Bulbine. 
Scapes leafless; flowers racemose; filaments beset with 
hairs ‘ ; 
Three of the Binnidate sae peony “ewes 
smaller ae oo ae 
Caesia. 
Flowers blue, somewhat pendulous, irregularly panicu- 
late ; leaves broadly linear, lax, mostly radical 
Flowers paler, smaller, in racemes; leaves narrowly 
linear : 
Arthropodium 
Filaments hairy, glabrous towards the base only. 
Stems 1 to 2 feet; leaves broad-linear; flowers 2 to 
4, on each pedicel; anthers elliptic; seeds 
several; filaments hairy only above the middle 
Stems shorter, leaves narrower, pedicels 1-flowered ; 
flowers smaller, anthers ovate, seeds few ; fila- 
ments hairy nearly to the base : 
Filaments glabrous, the anthers with 2 small ents ike 
appendages at base. 
Capsule on erect stalks ; anther-appendages very 
short ; sepals obtuse and somewhat crisped 
Capsule on refiexed stalks; anther-appendages 
rather long; sepals obtuse and somewhat fringed 
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elongata 
leucocephala 
juncea 
revoluta 
laevis 
bulbosa 
semibarbata 
vittata 
parviflora 
paniculatum 
minus 
strictum 
fimbriatum 
