Liliacee. | FLORA OF TASMANIA. 57 
Panicle large, spreading, very much branched ; branches slender, spreading, more or less curved ; pedicels also long 
and slender. Flowers deep blue. Filaments about as long as the yellow-brown anthers; swollen part of the fila- 
ment about as long as the lower part. Lindley states, under his D. revoluta, t. 1120, that the figure of D. longi- 
folia (734) is perhaps not Brown's plant, but a luxuriant variety of the revoluta. The present plant however so 
well agrees with Brown’s description of D. longifolia, and Lindley’s plate of that name, that in the absence of more 
definite descriptions of the anthers and filaments in the * Prodromus,’ I feel obliged to consider it as such. 
3. Dianella levis (Br. Prodr. 280); foliis radicalibus late ensiformibus planis caule brevioribus, 
marginibus et carina vix elevata levibus, caulinis paucis distantibus, panicula parce ramosa elongata, ramis 
breviusculis, pedicellis flore eeguilongis gracilibus, filamenti parte superiore incrassata lineari anthera fusca 
zquilonga, parte inferiore brevissima.— Kunth, En. v. 54. ? D. elegans, Kunth et Bouché, Ind. Sem. Hort. 
Berol. 1848, fide Kth. l.c. (Gunn, 566, in part.) 
Has. Tasmania, Fraser: Hampshire Hills, Gunn.— (Fl. Sept., Oct.) 
DistriB. New South Wales. 
I have only a portion of a large plant, with a young leaf, from Fraser, and the top of a panicle from Gunn. 
In general appearance it resembles the other species, but the leaf is described by Brown as flat, with an inconspi- 
cuous keel, and in my specimens the thickened part of the filament is linear, as long as the anther, and the lower 
part is extremely short. 
4. Dianella revoluta (Br. Prodr. 280); foliis radicalibus anguste lineari-elongatis (4 unc. latis) 
marginibus revolutis carinaque prominente levibus, caulinis paucis, panicule elongate ramis breviusculis 
gracilibus paucifloris pedicellisque arcuatis, filamentorum parte incrassata brevi anthera fusca multoties bre- 
viore, parte inferiore gracili incrassata subzquilonga, baccis globosis.—Äunth, En. v. 49; Sieb. Pl. Ersicc. 
198; an Bot. Reg. t. 1120? PD. angustifolia, Schult. Syst. vii. 352, ex Kunth, l.e. (Gunn, 564.) 
Has. Common in poor sandy soil on the north coast, and probably throughout the Island, Gunn, 
Archer, etc.—(Fl. Nov., Dec.) (v. v.) 
Disrris. New South Wales and Victoria. 
A tall, handsome plant, 2—4 feet high, with long, narrow, rigid leaves, very revolute at the margins, and 
narrow, elongate, branched panicles of numerous blue flowers. Leaves with the margins and very prominent 
keel smooth. Anthers fuscous, much longer than the thickened portion of the filament, which is very short, yellow, 
and rather shorter than the glabrous, subulate base of the filament. 
5. Dianella Tasmanica (Hook. fil); 4-5-pedalis, foliis radicalibus late et longe ensiformibus 
(1 une. latis) marginibus revolutis carinague prominula serrulatis, panicula decomposite ramosa pedunculis 
subfasciculatis pedicellisque curvis, antheris fuscis parvis brevibus filamentorum parte incrassata breviori- 
bus, baccis globosis. (Gunn, 565.) (Tas. CXXXIII. A.) 
B. Common in rich moist soil: Circular Head, Woolnorth, etc., Gunn. 
Danae Victoria. 
Much the largest Tasmanian species, attaining a height of 5 feet, with the leaves 3—4 feet long, and 1 inch 
broad, their margins revolute, and prominent keel serrulate. Panicle 1-2 feet long, very robust, much branched, 
the branches somewhat fascicled. Anthers very short and small, fuscous, shorter than the long, large, thickened 
apex of the filament; lower glabrous part of filament very short. — Gunn says that this is a much larger plant than 
D. revoluta, with paler blue flowers, and with the perianth completely i reflexed when fully expanded. The perianth 
seems to grow considerably as the fruit ripens, and encloses the berry; but all the fruiting specimens having been 
immersed in boiling water to facilitate their drying, it is impossible to examine them satisfactorily. I have a spe- 
cimen of what appears the same species, from Victoria, sent by the indefatigable Mueller with D. revoluta. The 
very small anthers being much shorter than the thickened part of the filaments, distinguish the species. 
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