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Gunniane. N. O. Heemodoracee. 
TAB. DCCCLXVI. 
Hamoporum DISTICHOPHYLLUM, Hook. 
Humile glabram totum siccitate atro-sanguineum coriaceum sub- - 
acaule, foliis exacte distichis arcte equitantibus ensiformi- 
subulatis superne canaliculatis scapo brevioribus dimidio infe- 
riore vaginantibus membranaceis, scapo bracteato, bracteis longe 
vaginantibus inflatis, corymbo solitario capitato, pedicellis 
bracteolatis, ovario trilobo supero. 
Has. Rare, on heathy hills, Macquarrie Harbour, Van Diemen’s 
Land, R. Gunn, Esq. (n. 2055), Dec. 1846. 
A very remarkable, compact-looking Hamodorum, very unlike any 
hitherto described species of the genus, and the only one native 
of Van Diemen’s Land. The plant is small, carnose, leathery 
when dry. Root of a few coarse fibres. Leaves exactly dis- 
tichous, with long sheathing bases. Scape much concealed by the 
large ventricose bracteas. Flowers in a capitate dense corymb, 
almost black when dry. Sepals obovate. Stamens 3, inserted at 
the base of the inner sepals. Style as long as the stamens; 
stigma entire. Sepals remaining with the superior fruit: this 
latter opens through the centre of each lobe. 
Fig. 1. Flower. f. 2. The same more expanded. f. 3. Fruit. 
Ff. 4. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnified. 
