LILIACÉES. 505 
solitaria adscendentia, incomplete v. complete anatropa ; micropyle 
axtrorsum infera. Fructus subsphæricus, perianthio sæpius stipatus, 
coriaceus, brevis v. rugosus striatusve, demum locuhicidus. Semina* 
pauca v. À, rotundata v. obtusangula ; albumine duro; embryone 
intrario lineari v. cylindraceo, nunc brevissimo. — Plantæ perennes ; 
rhizomate brevi v. repente, simplici v. ramoso ; foliis basilaribus 
confertis v. secus ramos aerios alternis; vaginis sæpe ramum cingen- 
ibus; limbo longe lineari rigido v. coriaceo; floribus in scapo 
communi cymosis v. glomeratis ; fæmineis nunc ad capitulum spurium 
unicum reductis; capitulis nunce in spicam plus minus longe cylin- 
draceam congestis; bracteis nune spinescentibus, (Oreania*.) 
III. CALECTASIFÆ. 
10. Catectasia R. Br. — Flores hermaphroditi; perianthi 
(colorati) hypocraterimorphi tubo cylindraceo, superne nonnihil 
ampliato; lobis 6, 2-seriatis subæqualibus lanceolatis rigidis imbri- 
Gatis, demum patentibus. Stamina 6, lobis breviora eorumque ad 
basin affixa ; filamentis tenuibus brevibus ; antheris linearibus erectis 
sifixis; loculis basi liberis, superne in rimam brevem poriformem 
lune longius introrsum descendentem dehiscentibus. Germen 1-locu- 
re; stylo gracili, apice stigmatoso parvo ; ovulis 3, ab imo loculo 
trectis; micropyle extrorsum infera. Fructus siccus indehiscens tubo 
Périanthii inclusus. Semen erectum oblongum; albumine carnoso ; 
embryone juxta basin parvo. — Planta perennis ; rhizomate duro ; 
amis aeriis pluribus erectis, basi tenuiter lignosis ramulosissimIs 
lliatis ; foliis linearibus patentibus, basi vaginantibus ; floribus in 
Summis ramulis solitariis sessilibus bracteisque foliaceis involn- 
Cratis, (Australia austro-occid.) — Vid. p. 408. 
11. Kingia R. Br? — Flores hermaphroditi; perianthii foliolis 6, 
latis glumaceis. 
#qualibus, 2-seriatim imbricatis, oblongo-lanceo 
: Brunnea v. pallida. Inst. (1855), 42. — a me | Sri VW, 
(g}, Sec. ad 30. Tuuse., Diss. Drac., Big. 1,2 94. — Bol De TD 825, +. C3 in Ann. se. 
l pen) — An. Br., in Duperr. Voy. Bol., 1 NU — Ennz., Gen., 
ll (Xerotes). — Exp, in Lehm. PI. Preiss., nat. m 
149 (erotes). — Lonn., Bot. Cab., t. 708 n.1057. RM I, RG, n. 6. 
Wo= F. MUELL., Fragm. phyt. Austral., ü Buff., XIE, 134. —B. ni ., 
1, 205; XI, 93 (Xerotes); in Trans. Vict. —ENGL. Pfansenfam., °° 
= 
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