444 LILIACEAE. [Dianeila. 
base, coriaceous, with 3 primary nerves — the median channelled above, 
the two lateral ones prominent on both faces — and with numerous parallel 
smaller nerves, squamaceo-villous and silvery on both faces when young, 
t with age often glabrate on the upper face or on both. Panicle densely 
villous ornate shorter than the leaves, its stout peduncle or scape 
leafless, 6—1 ng, the 3—8 hg branches 3—6‘ long, either all 
simple od Ss ocned to the base, the lower ones compound; each 
supported by a foliaceous ovate- ss sneiths bract, the lowest bract being 
longer than its branch. Pedicels sometimes several from a common base; 
3“, bearing at the base a linear bractlet of twice their length. Perianth 
3, disntals membranous, the segments biseriate in the bud and valvate, 
the outer ones ovate- laheonlate, villous outside, the inner narrower and 
glabrate or villous only along the middle, all spreading or recurved. 
Stamens shorter than the penta: with slender filaments and short 
oblong, obtuse, versatile, laterally dehiscent anthers. Ovary “sala often 
slightly villous, 3-celled, each cell with 4—6 oblong ovules which are 
short i 
at both ends, with small hilum, either flat- convex, or trigonal with one 
side convex. Embryo clavate, axile, nearly half the length of the fleshy 
albumen. — Steudel, Synops. Pl. Glum. II. 312. — Wawra, in Flora, 1875, 
p. 242. — Mann, Enum. no. 492 and 493. 
mmon on all islands, on exposed ridges or elapse s from 2000— we on above the ne 
owing on old trunks or on the ground. Nat. n : «Painiu». — with more © 
less glabrate leaves — A. coipmoyean Sm are ; lone found a ae cieranousl in 
such from Hamakua, Maui! the peri nth too is nearly glabrous. Plants again from 
the top of Eeka are silvery-woolly ie over, and in these the peice caudex lengthens 
and throws out roots. — A. montana, Seem., from the Viti Islds. does not seem to differ 
essentially. 
2. A. Waialealae, Wawra, in Flora, 1875, p. 243. — Dioecious. Caudex 
very short. Radical leaves much dilated and villous at the base, linear- 
lanceolate, scarcely over 6‘ long, reclinate, folded throughout, glabrous, 
rugose and shining above, polished underneath, 1-nerved. Panicle hirsute, 
with a very short peduncle, the lowest bract ovate-lanceolate, 1'/2‘ long, 
the upper ones much shorter or wanting. ~ cels 1. Segments of 
perianth linear-lanceolate, glabrate. Ovules 2—3 in each cell. Stigmatic 
dots concave. Seeds obovoid, aaa than in ee geeveang species. Embryo 
nearly as long as the aiinaien — Descr. from Wawra 
Kauai, summit of Waialeale and lata of Halemanu. 
D. Lam: 
Segments of perianth 6, a equal, siiiiiioe 3—T7-nerved. Stamens 
6, hypogynous, or the 3 inner in serted at the base of segments; the 
