434 Key to the System of 



Comparatively dwarf. 



Root-fibres abbreviated, ending in small slender tubers ; 

 leaves narrow -linear ; flowers quite small, in a simple or 

 hardly branched raceme ; sepals and petals purplish ; 

 filaments longer than the ovate anthers ; its hairlets 

 yellowish ; fruit quite small, globular ; seeds few. 

 (Probably a variety of the preceding. ) A. minus. 



1854. Fruit-bearing stalklets almost erect. 



Root-fibres ending in somewhat turgid tubers ; leaves almost 

 all basal ; panicle scantily branched ; flowers rather large, 

 fragrant ; stalklets often scattered ; bracts conspicuous ; 

 sepals and petals purplish, the former acute, the latter 

 obtuse and somewhat crisped ; stamens considerably 

 shorter than the sepals and petals ; anthers longer than 

 the filaments, almost linear, usually dark-colored ; style 

 filiform ; stigma minute ; fruit rather small, globular ; 

 seeds several, black outside. A. strictum. 



Fruit-bearing stalklets reflexed. 



Root-fibres ending in somewhat turgid tubers ; leaves 

 almost all basal ; panicle scantily branched ; flowers 

 rather large, fragrant ; stalklets often two or more to- 

 gether ; bracts conspicuous ; sepals and petals purplish, 

 the former acute, the latter obtuse and slightly fringy ; 

 stamens considerably shorter than the sepals and petals ; 

 anthers longer than the filaments, almost linear, usually 

 yellow ; style filiform ; stigma minute ; fruit rather 

 small, globular ; seeds several, black outside. 



(A. laxum.) A. fimbriatum. 



THYSANOTUS. 



1855. Twining. 



Dwarf ; root-fibres tuberously thickened ; stem branched ; 

 basal leaves few, very short, channelled, linear ; upper 

 leaves rudimentary or nearly obliterated ; flowers rather 

 small, solitary or two together ; bracts quite short ; sepals 

 narrow, firm, in part greenish ; petals broad, tender, mem- 

 branous, extensively purplish; anthers six, very slender; 

 style filiform ; stigma minute ; fruit quite small, 

 trigonous-globular ; seeds few, black outside. 



T. Fatersoni. 



Erect ... 1856 



1856. Stem much branched from near the base. 



Often rather tall and rigid ; root irregularly thickened, its 

 fibres without tubers ; basal leaves somewhat short, 

 linear or nearly obliterated or very fugacious ; lowest 



