102 MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. TRIGLOCHIN. 
æ, robustior; planta 20-25 cent., rarius usque ad 50-60 cent. alta 
(specimina capensia). Rhizoma breve, obliquum, fibrillas radicales 
validas et stolones elongatos persistentes emittens. Folia 2-3 mill. 
lata, ligula 3 mill. longa, integra vel superne leviter emarginata. 
Scapi plus minusve angulati, ad dimidiam v. tertiam partem floriferi. 
Flores parvi, fere spicati, pedicellis 1-2 mill. longis, post anthesin 
non accrescentibus. Perigonii laciniæ exteriores 2 mill. longæ, obo- 
. vatæ, obtuse, concava, vix carinatæ, interiores 1,5 mill. longs, 
angustius ovata, subacute. Staminum fertilium antheræ late ovate, 
utrinque emarginatæ, sterilium autem effoetze vel omnino deficientes, 
. tunc perigonii laciniæ interiores carpella sterilia arcte cingunt. Ova- 
ria stigmate longe plumoso coronata. Fructus abbreviati, 1,5-2 mill. 
longi, fere globosi; carpella ad apicem breviter rostrata, dorso valde 
curvata, sicca tricostata, mollia autem rotundata ; carpella sterilia ad 
laminam membranaceam columnz centrali adhærentem reducta; 
semina 1,5 mill. longa, testa leviter punctata. 
B, filifolia (T. filifolia Sieb.); altitudine variabilis, raro 20 cent. 
excedens, folia anguste linearia vel filiformia, scapum sape supe- 
rantia. 
y, humilis; vix 10 cent. alta, compacta, esespitosa ; racemus abbre- 
viatus, folia scapum æquantia, coriacea, linearia. Forme plures inter 
varietates intermediæ reperiuntur. 
In regionibus extratropicis hemisphærii australis, copiose in palu- 
dibus : in Africa ad Promontorium Bonæ Spei et usque ad Natal (spe- 
cimina plura ab Ecklon et Zeyher, Bergius, Burchell n. 691, n. 3906, 
Gerrard, Drége collecta, sæpius ad varietatem a pertinent), in 
Angola in uliginosis subsalsis prope Mossamoda (Welwitsch n. 3016 in 
herb. Brit. Mus.); in Australia in pluribus provinciis, Queensland 
(Mc Gillivray, F. Mueller); N. S. Wales (R. Brown, Sieber n. 174, etC.); 
Victoria (Allitt, Adamson, Mueller, Sullivan, etc.); S. et W. Australia 
(Mueller, R. Brown, Drummond, Preiss n. 2404, La Billardière, pleri 
que in herb. Kew); in Tasmania (Gunner in pluribus herbariis, Hoo- 
ker, Lindley in herb. Vindob.); in Nova Zelandia (Hooker, Travers 
in herb. Kew, Hügel in herb. Vindob., Sinclair in herb. Berol., etc} 
in insulis Auckland (Chaseman in herb. Kew); fere omnia hzec speci- 
mina ad varietatem 5 pertinent; aliquot plus minusve ad à vel ad 7 
transeunt. In America aream occupat in latitudine magis extensam ; 
reperitur quidem in Chili (Philippi, s. n. T. littoralis in schedulis, 
Gay, Póppig, Guillemin, Lechler s. n. T. Lechleri Steudel in sched. 
in n diversis herbariis), in Brasilia australi, ad Montevideo, Buenos- 
