50 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Liliacee. 
Gen. II. ARTHROPODIUM, Br. 
Flores albi v. purpurascentes, racemosi, pedicellis articulatis. Perianthium 6-partitum, zequale, 
deciduum, basi persistente, patens; /o/io/is interioribus margine undulatis v. fimbriatis. Stamina 6; an- 
theris linearibus, basi deformibus v. barbatis, filamentis nudis v. barbatis. Ovarium 9-loculare, stylo fili- 
formi, stigmate simplici setoso, ovulis plurimis. Capsula subglobosa, 3-locularis, loculicide trivalvis. 
Semina pauca, subangulata, umbilico nudo; zesta atra.—Herbe ; radice e fibris crassis v. tuberosis; foliis 
radicalibus, linearibus, flaccidis ; floribus racemosis. 
This genus, as at present known, is confined to Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. In the former countries 
about eight are indigenous ; these have been divided into two genera by Kunth, according as whether the anthers are 
simple or appendieulate at the base, and the filaments glabrous or bearded. "These characters are however combined 
in some species, and the 4. cirrhatum of New Zealand has spurs or appendices upon the filaments at the base of 
the bearded portion, which altogether resemble the appendices of the anthers of some of the Australian species.— 
Annual herbs, with perennial, fibrous, or tuberous roots, the fibres becoming more or less spindle-shaped or rounded 
tubers, narrow linear, grassy leaves, and simple or branched racemes of white or purplish nodding flowers. Perianth 
of six spreading, membranous leaflets, the three inner rather smaller, undulate, crenate, or fimbriate. Stamens six ; 
filaments naked or bearded; anthers linear, their lobes simple or appendiculate or bearded at the base. Ovary 
three-celled, with many ovules, and a simple style terminating in a setose stigma. Capsule with many compressed, 
angular seeds, covered with a black testa. (Name from ap6pos, a joint, and rovs, a foot; in allusion to the jointed 
pedicels.) 
$ 1. Filaments bearded above the middle. 
l. Arthropodium paniculatum (Br. Prodr. 276); 1-2-pedalis, tuberibus cylindraceis, racemo 
ramoso, pedicellis solitariis et aggregatis medio articulatis gracillimis, floribus albis v. pallide purpureis, 
bracteis parvis ovatis, foliolis interioribus suberenatis, filamentis dense stuposo-barbatis, antheris basi 
nudiusculis, stylo filiformi.— Bor. Mag. t. 1421; Endl. Te. t.28. A. minus, Lind. Bot. Reg. t. 860. A. 
Lindleyi, Kunth, En. iv. 621. Anthericum paniculatum, And. Bot. Rep. 1.895. A. milleflorum, Red. 
Lil. t. 58. (Gunn, 98, 951.) 
Has. Abundant throughout the Island, ascending to 1500 feet.— (Fl. Dec.) (v. v.) 
DisrarB. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Exceedingly variable in size, from 6 inches to a yard high, with the leaves from 2 inches to 9 fect long, 
and varying proportionately in robustness and breadth of leaves, ramification of raceme, and number of flowers. 
Flowers white or purplish, on very slender pedicels, generally in pairs; their bracts always small, ovate. Filaments 
densely villous, with pale hairs for two-thirds of their length. Anthers yellow or purplish, with a few hairs at the 
base of the lobes. Style long and slender. 
2. Arthropodium pendulum (De Cand. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 80); 1-2-pedalis, racemo simplici v. 
ramoso, pedicellis gracilibus medio articulatis solitariis et aggregatis, floribus purpureis, bracteis parvis 
ovatis, foliolis interioribus subcrenatis, filamentis dense stuposo-barbatis, barba inferne flava superne pur- 
purea, antheris basi subpilosis, stylo filiformi.—Kwn£A, En. iv. 620. Phalangium pendulum, Red. Lil. 
t. 360. (Gunn, 563, 100?) 
Has. Abundant in the northern parts of the Island, as at Launceston, Woolnorth, the Hampshire 
Hills, ete., Scott, Gunn.—(Fl. Dec.) 
Very nearly allied indeed to 4. Paniculatum, and perhaps only a distinct variety; it differs chiefly in the less 
compound raceme, shorter peduncles, deep-purple flowers, the pedicelled, fusiform tubers of the root, and in the 
beard of the filament being yellow below and purple above, 
