56 FLORA OF TASMANIA. [Liliacee. 
Has. Abundant in sandy soil throughout the Colony.—(Fl. Nov., Dec.) (v. v.) 
Distris. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Gunn doubts whether this be distinct from S. cespitosa, and his doubts are probably well founded; it differs 
chiefly in its much smaller size, shorter leaves, with smooth margins, less branched inflorescence, and more uni- 
formly umbellate flowers; but all these characters are very fallacious. 
Gen. IX. DIANELLA, Zamarck. 
Flores albi v. cerulei, paniculati, pedicellis apice articulatis. Perianthium 6-partitum, zequale, patens, 
deciduum. Stamina 6; filamentis curvis, superne incrassatis, glabris pubescentibus stuposisve; antheris 
linearibus, strictis, basifixis. Ovarium 3-loculare ; stylo gracili; stigmate simplici; ovulis plurimis. Bacca 
globosa v. oblonga, 3-locularis ; loculis polyspermis. Semina ovoidea ; testa atra, splendente ; umbilico nudo. 
—Herbe rigide, perennes ; rhizomate repente ; radicibus fibrosis ; foliis rigide coriaceis, gramineis, basi semi- 
vaginantibus ; pedicellis basi bracteola unilaterali stipatis ; floribus nutantibus ; baccis ceruleis. 
A large genus, found in Madagascar, in the tropical parts of India, the Malayan and Polynesian Islands, and 
New Zealand. About ten Australian and Tasmanian species are known to me; they are very difficult to discrimi- 
nate; and I am not certain that any of the species I have named according to Brown's * Prodromus,” are really 
the plants there described, nor that all here distinguished are really distinct. The stamens appear to me to afford 
the best characters. In general structure the genus is closely allied to Stypandra, but the species are of a larger, 
coarser, more rigid growth, the flowers panicled, the filaments thickened and often pubescent, or tomentose above 
the curved, glabrous portion, the anthers short or long, and straight, and the fruit is a blue, indehiscent berry. 
(Name from Diana, as Goddess of woods.) 
l. Dianella czrulea (Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 505); foliis caulinis numerosis elongatis ensiformibus 
( unc. latis) marginibus et carina serrulatis, panicule ramis brevibus: parum divisis, pedicellis confertis 
perianthio brevioribus, filamenti parte incrassata anthera flava breviore, bacca parva globosa.— Red. Lil. 
t. 19; Br. Prodr. 279. (Gunn, 1387.) 
Has. Near Launceston, Gunn ; Cheshunt, Archer. (Fl. Nov. ?) 
Disrris. Eastern and Southern Australia, from the tropic to Victoria. 
The only Tasmanian specimens of this plant which I have seen, were grown in Mr. Gunn’s garden at Pen- 
quite, but were transplanted there from the neighbourhood. It agrees well with the figures quoted, and with the de- 
scription of Brown, except in the branches of the panicle being curved ; in this respect it resembles the D. revoluta, 
which is figured in the ‘ Botanical Register’ as having straw-coloured anthers (but described as having them fus- 
cous). D. revoluta of the ‘ Botanical Register” is another allied plant, with toothed margins to the leaf (as the 
Tasmanian plant and the D. cerulea have), but Brown describes that species as having the margins of the leaf 
smooth. All these are possibly varieties of one, some of my subtropical specimens of D. cerulea having the leaves 
very obscurely rough here and there on the margins. The broad, serrulate leaves, short, curved pedicels, and yellow 
anthers, being longer than the thickened part of the filament, best distinguish this plant from its Tasmanian con- 
geners. 
2. Dianella longifolia (Br. Prodr. 280) ; foliis radicalibus longe et anguste lineari-ensiformibus 
(vix 4 une. latis) margine carinague levibus, paniculz ramis elongatis gracilibus parum divisis, pedicellis 
gracilibus flore longioribus, filamenti apice incrassato lineari parte inferiore eequilongo et anthera fusca bre- 
viore.— Lind. Bot, Reg. 134; Kunth, En. v. 54. (Gunn, 564 in parte.) 
Has. Tasmania, Gunn. 
Distris. New South Wales. 
A tall plant, 3 feet high, very slender, with very long, narrow leaves, whose margins and carina are smooth. 
