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ovoidea; testa atra, crustacea, opaca.—Herbe; radice fibrosa ; foliis gramineis; caule vel scapo ramoso ; 
ramis basi bracteatis ; floribus pedicellatis ; pedicellis articulatis. 
I have seen eight or ten Australian species of this genus; they inhabit various parts of the tropica land 
extratropical coasts. The genus is best known by its erect, yellow flowers being collected into small, bracteate 
umbels ; by the ovary being deeply three-lobed ; by the hairy filaments ; and by the fruit being formed of one to three 
coriaceous, indehiscent, one-seeded cocci; the roots are fibrous, leaves grassy, and inflorescence branched. 7. elatior 
is a slender plant, 1-2 feet high, with slender, compressed, divaricating branches, and small umbels of four to 
seven shortly pedicelled flowers. (Name from rpeıs, three, and xopvvn, a club; in allusion to the form of the 
carpels.) 
1. Tricoryne elatior (Br. Prodr. 278) ; caule teretiusculo ramoso folioso, ramis gracilibus divari- 
catim ramosis angulatis, foliis planis, umbellis 4—7-floris.— Bauer, Ill. Plant. Nov. Holl. t. 11; Endl. Icon. 
t. 61; Kunth, En. iv. 612. (Gunn, 1384.) 
Has. South Esk River, thirty miles from Launceston, Gunn ; Cheshunt, Archer.—(Fl. Dec.) 
Distris. Tropical and temperate coasts of Australia, from Port Curtis to Swan River. 
Gen. VIII. STYPANDRA, Br. 
Flores ceerulei flavi v. albicantes, paniculatim corymbosi; pedicellis artieulatis, umbellulatis. Perian- 
thium 6-partitum, equale, patens, deciduum. Stamina 6; filamentis infra attenuatis curvatis glabris, 
supra stuposo-barbatis pubescentibusve. Ovarium 3-loculare ; stylo filiformi; stigmate simplici; ovulis 
plurimis. Capsula 3-locularis, 3-valvis. Semina pauca, ovalia, umbilico nudo; testa atra, splendente ; 
embryone recto.—Herbe subrigida, perennes; rhizomate repente, radices fibrosas emittente ; foliis lineari- 
ensiformibus, distichis, vaginis integris v. semivaginantibus; antheris demum revolutis, filamentorum bar- 
bisque flavis. 
The species of Stypandra, about ten of which are known to me, are all natives of Australia and Tasmania, 
except one New Caledonian species ; they are rather rigid, perennial plants, with creeping rhizomes, fibrous roots, 
and distichous, sometimes glaucous, ensiform leaves.—Scape or stems naked or leafy, branched. Flowers white, 
blue, or yellowish, in panicled corymbs or umbels. Perianth of six, equal, spreading pieces. Stamens six; fila- 
ments contracted below the middle, densely bearded above. Ovary three-celled ; cells many-ovuled; style slender, 
erect. Capsule three-celled, three-valved. Seeds few, with a brilliantly-polished, black, crustaceous testa. (Name 
from orvry, tow, and avyp, a stamen.) 
l. Stypandra ceespitosa (Br. Prodr. 279) ; 2-3-pedalis, foliis radicalibus anguste lineari-ensifor- 
mibus planis margine scabris vaginis fissis, caulinis abbreviatis, scapo pluries dichotome paniculatim ra- 
moso, pedicellis umbellatis alternisve bracteatis perianthiisque glaberrimis.—Sieb. Plant. Exsice. n. 201, 
263; Kunth, En. iv. 626. (Gunn, 1386.) 
Has. Sandy, wet land: near Georgetown, and probably elsewhere in the Colony, abundant, Gunn.— 
(El. Dec., Jan.) 
Disrgis. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Very variable in size, but usually from 2 to 3 feet high. eaves shorter, or rather longer, than the scape, 
narrow-linear, rigid, glaucous; margins rough. Scape repeatedly divided in a dichotomous manner; the branches 
alternate; pedicels umbellate or alternate. Flowers blue or yellow, about 3-2 inch across. Filaments densely 
pubescent for nearly their whole length. 
2. Stypandra umbellata (Br. Prodr. 279); 6-pollicaris v. pedalis, foliis strictis lineari-ensiformibus 
margine levibus vaginis fissis, caulino solitario abbreviato, scapo parce ramoso, pedicellis 2-4 umbellatis 
perianthiisgue glaberrimis.—Sieb. Plant. Exsice. 200 ; Kunth, En. iv. 626. »(Gunn, 766.) 
