thought to be Mutinus - When old the lobes separate and spread out. 

 The genus is known in Australia by only one abundant collection. 



LYSURUS AUSTRALIENSIS (Vig. 13). Stem white, cylin- 

 drical, four to five inches long. It bears at the top usually five some- 

 what irregular, sulcate. pointed, arm-like lobes. The gleba is borne 

 on these lobes. 



HISTORY. Bailey first sent to Cooke a single specimen, which was young 

 with the lobes connivent, and Cooke described it as. Mutinus sulcatus. The 

 next year Bailey sent more ample and better developed specimens, which 

 Cooke called Lysurus australiensis. These are the only collections known. 

 Cooke gives a very good figure of it in the Handbook, which we have repro- 

 duced (Fig. 13). The lobes of this figure are not as irregular as those of 

 Fig. 133. made from the dried specimen. It is my belief that Lysurus aus- 

 traliensis, as well as Lysurus borealis of the United States, are the same as 

 Lysurus Gardneri, 3 originally from Ceylon. We can note very little difference 

 on comparison of the dried specimens, but we shall not throw them together 

 until we get more evidence on the subject. 



THE GENUS ANTHURUS. The original idea of the genus 

 Anthurus by Kalchbrenner, is a flaring tube, the limb divided into 

 segments. This meaning has been entirely perverted by recent writers 

 and an entirely different definition given to the name. We use the 

 word in its original meaning, for we believe it is not good classification 

 to include with the original species several plants that are now placed 

 in the genus. 4 I have never seen a specimen of a true Anthurus ac- 

 cording to Kalchbrenners distinction. 5 



ANTHURUS MUELLERIANUS (Fig. 14). This plant was 

 named by Kalchbrenner from specimens received from Baron von 

 Mueller. There are no specimens at London, and I know only Kalch- 

 brenner's figure which was reproduced in Cooke's Handbook. It has 

 a strongly flaring, tubular stem and is described as yellowish-red, but 

 the figure he gives is bright red, which is more probably its color. 



2 Indeed it is a question if Mutinus pentagonus of this pamphlet is not really a Lysurus. 



3 Lysurus Gardneri, of Ceylon, which was so named and described by Berkeley, is a true 

 Lysurus with spreading arms, and not a " Coins," as found in Fischer's latest work. Fischer referred 

 it to the genus Coins on the strength of Berkeley's figure, and he was justified if one is ever justified 

 in changing classification on the evidence of a figure. When Professor Fischer came to Kew, how- 

 is a Lysurus, and not a Coins in any sense of the word. The arms are entirely separate and spreading 

 when mature. Like all species of Lysurus, they are connivent when young, but they are not joined 

 at the apex, however slightly. 



6 There are at Kew some specimens from South Africa which Kalchbrenner called Anthurus 

 Woodu, but they do not have a flaring tube as Kalchbrenner shows in his cut, and I should class them 

 as Lystirtis. 





