94 FLORA OF TASMANIA. | Ziliacee. 
plant (Cuming, 981), which has been doubtfully referred by Planchon, from an imperfect specimen, to this genus. 
Considering how abundant this genus is in Australia, its rarity in Tasmania is remarkable. T. Patersoni, the 
only Tasmanian species hitherto known, is a slender, annual, twining, leafless plant, with a perennial root of many 
stalked or sessile tubers.—S/em as thick as small twine, simple, terete, and straight at the base, soon becoming 
flexuous, angled, and branched. Flowers about 4 inch across, numerous, blue-purple, on stout pedicels, solitary or 
alternate, pedicels with small bracts at the base. Perianth of six equal spreading pieces, that are persistent, and 
enclose the capsule; outer leaflets narrow, with membranous edges; inner broad, margins not fimbriate. Stamens 
six, rather unequal, with short filaments and linear membranous anthers, whose cells are white and membranous at 
the apex. Capsule membranous, three-celled, with two superimposed compressed seeds in each cell. esta black, 
rather shining; funiculus expanded at the hilum into a membranous arillus. (Name from 0vcavoros, fringed; in 
allusion to the fringed perianth.) 
l. Thysanotus Patersoni (Br. Prodr. 284); radicibus tuberosis fasciculatis, caule volubili 
ramoso aphyllo, ramis angulatis patentibus, floribus sparsis breve pedicellatis, staminibus 6, antheris apice 
membranaceis.— Kunth, En. iv. 616. (Gunn, 351.) 
Has. Creeping amongst grass, not uncommon in many parts of the Island, but easily overlooked.— 
(Fl. Oct., Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrıg. Victoria and South Australia. 
Gen. VI. HERPOLIRION, He 
Flos spathis duabus inclusus. Perianthium tubuloso-campanulatum, 6-partitum, foliolis eequalibus 
lineari-oblongis. Stamina 6, filamentis filiformibus; antheris demum subtortis. Ovarium oblongum, 
3-loculare; stylo filiformi; stigmate simplici; ovulis plurimis biseriatis.— Herbe; rhizomate repente, 
radicante ; foliis linearibus, subglaucescentibus, basi vaginantibus; flore sessili, luteo v. pallide ceruleo ; 
perianthii foliolis exterioribus multinerviis, interioribus paueinervüs. 
A remarkable little genus, of only two known species, one a native of the mountains of New Zealand, and the 
other of those of Tasmania. The D. Tasmanie is a small alpine plant, with slender, creeping, tufted rhizomes, 
sending up very short stems, bearing spreading leaves and one sessile flower.— Leaves 1-3 inches long, glaucous, 
linear, acute, the inner shorter, passing into spathaceous bracts, the two last of which enclose the flower. Flower 
quite sessile, erect, very variable in size, from 3 to 1 inch long, of a fine pale-blue, varying to yellowish and white 
(according to Gunn). Perianth campanulately six-parted ; segments very variable in length and breadth, from oblong 
to narrow-linear. Stamens six, with slender, slightly pubescent filaments, and small linear-oblong anthers, emargi- 
nate at the base, twisted when old. Ovary oblong, three-celled, with a slender straight style, and many ovules in 
each cell. (Name from &prw, to creep, and Auen, a lily.) 
l. Herpolirion Tasmanix (H.f. in Fl N. Zeal. i. 258.) (Gunn, 371. (Tas. OXXXII. 2.) 
Has. Summits of the Western Mountains, in wet places; banks of Lake St. Clair, covering large 
patches of ground, Gunn.—(Fl. Dec., Jan.) 
Distris. Mountains of Victoria, Mueller. 
Pirate CXXXII. B. Fig. 1, flower; 2, outer sepal; 3, inner ditto; 4, stamen; 5, pistil; 6, transverse sec- 
tion of ovary :—all magnified. 
Gen. VII. TRICORYNE, br. 
Flores flavi, umbellati, erecti. Perianthium patens, «equale, 6-partitum, deciduum, post anthesin 
tortum. Stamina 6; filamentis penicillatis. Ovarium 3-partitum, lobis 2-ovulatis, basi stylo filiformi 
connexis; stigmate simplici. «Capsula profunde 1—3-loba, lobis evalvibus clavatis monospermis. Semina 
