rr2. IKIDACiL.E. 1-51 



]{(ilii(i nil sfiirfii. Tver. Dwarf corinous plant, villous ail 

 over; stem beai-injj; a spike of 2-(j showy flowers which ex- 

 ceed the swordshaped leaves with 5-6 prominent plaited 

 nerves; perianth from red to lilac, with a slender tube and 

 equal segments; spatlie about as long as the cylindrical 

 part of the tube, the outer valve oblong, blunt, striate, 

 the inner bifid, often split to the base; style-branches, short, 

 spoonshaped; ovary villous.- Belair and Blackwood. — Oct. 



Tritonia lineata, Ker. Stem erect, bearing about 12 

 liand.soine flowers in a loose spike ; perianth pale-yellow in 

 South Australian specimens, with 3 parallel longitudinal 

 nerves down the centre of each .segment and lateral nerves 

 branching from them ; spathe short, outer A^alve brown and 

 toothed in upper , part ; style slender with 3 oblanceolate 

 branches exceeding the purple, versatile anthers. — Fourth 

 Creek near Glynde Road. Oct. 



IlespcicnitJia faJcdfn, Ker. Stem erect, slender, bear- 

 ing 3-G scented flowers in a loose spike ; leaves 3-4 broad- 

 linear, straight or sickle-shaped (falcate), almost equitant, 

 much shorter than the stem, which has a sheathing bract 

 about the middle; perianth-tube cylindrical, straight, ex- 

 ceeding the spathe ; segments oblong spreading, the 3 inner 

 ones white, the 3 outer browni.sh-rcd outside; outer spathe- 

 vahvc oboval, green, reddish at ti)) : corm conical with a 

 brown tunic. — Waterfall Gully. — Sept. 



Ixia fluxunsa, L. Stem erect, slender, bearing many 

 flowers in a dense spike with a zig5:ag (flexuose) axis; leaves 

 about 4 at base of stem and 2 higher up. broad linear, flat, 

 long-pointed; perianth-tube straight, slender, exceeding the 

 spathe but shorter than the limb ; segments oblong, 12-14 

 mm. (about \ in.) long, from almost Avhite to deep lilac; 

 outer spathe-valve scarious, oblong, .striate, notched and 

 mucrcniate at summit, inner valve 2-to()thed. ^Hillsides, 

 Waterfall Gully.— Oct. -Nov. 



Ackhtnthcra pUitypetahi, Baker. Stem erect, slender, 

 bearing 1 large terminal, scented, funnel-shaped flower, and 

 2-3 awlshaped, distant leaves, th(> lowest often exceeding 

 the stem; spathe long, cylindrical, herbaceous; perianth 

 yellowishi-white, the oval-acute lobes much shorter than the 

 curved tube and streaked with purple-brown; stamens at- 

 tached to middle of tube ; style slender, as long as stamens ; 

 corm globidar, with a fibrous tunic. — Railway line and fields 

 between Blackwood and Belair. — Oct. 



Fcnaria iindulafii , L. Stem stout, erect, rising from 

 a depressed corm ; leaves long, glaucous, broad-linear, loosely 

 equitant, and pa.ssing gradually into oval floral bracts with 

 narrow white edges; spathe stalked, 2-flowered, swollen, 

 striate, 4-6 cm. (1^-2^ in.) long ; flowers pedicellate, very 

 fugitive; perianth 4-5 cm. (nearly 2 in.) across, divided 

 almost to the base into 6 .shortl.v clawed, spreading purple- 

 blotched segments, greenish and wavy on the edge ; style- 



