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THE TASMANIAN FLORA. 



Leaves principally at the base of the stem. 



Flowers few or many, in a loose or dense inflorescence, 

 on stems nearly as long as, or longer than 

 leaves. 

 Flowers in loose panicles or in small clusters along 

 the stem. 

 Flowers in spreading panicles. 



Styles 3. Filaments simple ... 



Style simple. Filaments hairy or thickened. 

 Flower blue. Filaments enlarged above 

 Flowers yellow or bine. Filaments minutely 



hairy 

 Flowers white or red. Filaments hairy 

 above 

 Flowers few, at intervals. 

 Stamens simple 

 Stamens with a tuft of hairs 

 Flowers in dense spikes, solitary umbel, simple 

 raceme or few-flowered cyme. 

 Flowers in many-flowered raceme. 

 Flowers red. Stamens simple ... 

 Flowers yellow. Stamens bearded 

 Flowers few, in a raceme or cyme. 

 Flowers blue. Stamens simple ... 

 Flowers blue or yellow. Scamens hairy 

 Flowers red. Stamens hairy at anther 

 Flowers in a terminal umbel 

 Flowers in a dense spike 

 Flowers solitary, or (if many) on very short stems. 

 Flowers solitary, terminal 

 Flowers few or many. 



Flowers solitary, at intervals. Stem creeping 

 Flowers few. Leaves slender 

 Flowers many. Leaves broad, rigid 

 Leaves not conspicuously basal. 



Leaves in numerous clusters along stem 



Leaves 1-3 on stem, sheathing 



Leaves on upper part of stem, lanceolate 



1. ASTELIA. 



5. Milligania. 

 3. Dianella. 



13. Stypandra. 



14. Arthropodium. 



10. Cassia. 

 12. Tricoryne. 



4. Blandfordia. 



8. Bulbine. 



11. Gham<BScillM. 



18. Stypandra. 



14. Arthropodium. 

 7. Burchardia. 



18. XanthorrhcBa. 



16. fferpolirion. 



9. Thysanotus. 



15. Chlorophyton. 



1. Astelia. 



17. Laxmannia. 

 6. Wurmbea. 



2. Drymophila. 



Perianth membranous, divided nearly to the base into 6 equal segments. 

 Stamens 6, attached at the base of the perianth. Filaments slender, rather 

 short, reduced to small antherless teeth in the flowers bearing perfect ovaries. 

 Anthers ovate. Ovary 3-celled or ] -celled, with parietal placentas. Ovules 

 numerous. Style short, deeply divided into 3 branches. Fruit a berry. 



A genus of few species, widely spread in temperate parts of the Southern 

 Hemisphere. 



A. ALPINA, R. Br. A densely-tufted alpine plant, forming closely-compacted 

 masses of considerable size, covered with loose, silky, white hairs. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, with a sheathing base and spreading lamina, 3 inches to 1 foot 

 long, |-1 J inch broad. Flower-stem slender, short, bearing an irregular panicle, 

 much shorter than the leaves, and few linear leaf-like bracts. Staminate 

 flowers in a loose spreading panicle ; perianth-segments about 2 lines long, 

 recurved ; ovary about 1| line long, but without ovules. Pistillate flowers in a 

 short compact panicle ; perianth-segments 3 lines long, sub-erect ; stamens reduced 



