46 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Melanthacee. 
l. Burchardia umbellata (Br. Prodr. 273); foliis scapo plerumque brevioribus, pedicellis brevius- 
culis. (Gunn, 103.) 
Var. B. parviflora ; caule graciliore, floribus minoribus. 
Has. Northern parts of the Island, as at Launceston, Georgetown, ete., Laurence, Gunn; Great 
Swan Port, S/orey.—(Fl. Oct., Nov.) Var. 8. Georgetown.—(Fl. Dec.) 
Disrris. New South Wales and Victoria. 
The only Tasmanian species of this genus forms a small herb, 6-24 inches high, with a root of fleshy, fascieled 
fibres, an erect, leafy scape, and involucrate umbel, of four to eight star-like, white flowers. Leaves linear, spreading 
and curving outwards, the cauline ones sheathing at the base. Pedicels of the flowers very variable in length, 2-1 
inch long. Flowers extremely variable in size, $ to almost 1 inch across, of six linear-oblong, white, spreading 
leaflets, each with a nectariferous pit at the base. Stamens six, inserted on the base of the segments, with slender 
filaments and versatile anthers. Ovary elliptic, suddenly contracted into three short, spreading stigmas. Capsule 
three-valved, coriaceous; valves boat-shaped, laterally compressed, acuminate, bursting inwards. Seeds very nume- 
rous, in two series in each cell, vertically compressed, densely imbricated, with a pale, coriaceous testa.—Gunn 
sends a much smaller-flowered and more slender plant, as a variety of this, from Georgetown, and I do not find 
that it presents any characters but these to distinguish it. (Named in honour of Henry Burchard, M.D., a bota- 
nical author.) 
Gen. II. ANGUILLARIA, Br. 
Flores spicati. Perianthium inferum, petaloideum, 6-phyllum, foliolis stellato-patentibus, ungue vit- 
tato v. biglanduloso. Stamina 6, basi perianthii inserta ; antheris extrorsis. Ovarium trigonum, obtusum, 
triloculare; ovulis plurimis, biseriatis ; stylis 3, erectis. Capsula 3-locularis, loculicide 3-valvis, valvis 
medio septiferis. Semina biseriata, subglobosa; zesta coriacea.—Herbæ; radice bulbosa, tunicata ; foliis 
gramineis, caulinis vaginantibus ; floribus interdum umisexualibus, albis, purpureo pictis. 
A small genus of five or six species, confined to extratropical Australia.—Small herbs, with bulbous roots, 
grassy leaves, with inflated sheaths, and spikes of white, star-shaped flowers. Bulbs covered with a deep chestnut- 
brown, shining; membranous coat. Stems slender. Flowers sessile, sometimes unisexual. Perianth of six linear, 
spreading leaflets, with two glands, or purple, thickened spots or bars about the middle. Stamens six, with extrorse 
anthers. Ovary superior, blunt, three-celled, with three recurved styles, and three cells with two rows of ovules in 
each. Capsule trigonous, coriaceous; dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds globose. (Named in honour of Aloys Anguil- 
lara, a Professor of Botany at Padua.) 
: aria dioica (Br. Prodr. 273); floribus spicatis unisexualibus y. hermaphroditis, perian- 
thii foliolis medio biglandulosis v. transverse incrassatis.—Kunth, Enum. iv. 158 ; Endl. Icon. t.3. Pleea 
Sieberi, Sieb. Pl. Ersice. 156. (Gunn, 162.) 
Var. B. multiflora ; foliis latioribus, floribus plurimis majoribus, perianthii foliolis obscure transverse 
incrassato-vittatis v. omnino nudis. 
Has. Abundant in meadows, pastures, etc., throughout the Island ; sea-sand, near Woolnorth, Gunn. 
—(Fl. Aug.-Oct.) (v. v.) 
Distris. South-eastern and South-western Australia, from New South Wales to Swan River. — 
Var. 8. Victoria, Adamson. 
A small, slender plant, 2 inches to a span high. Zeaves longer than the scape, spreading and recurved, 
sheathing base broad and cucullate, lamina elongate-subulate, concave. Flowers polygamous, three to six in a 
spike, very variable in size, 4-2 inch across, Leaflets of the perianth with two, purple, thickened spots about the 
middle, which usually coalesce and form a transverse, purple band. The var. 8 looks very distinct in Tasmania, but 
