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TRIBES. 



LiBERTIA IXIOIDES. 



Sprengel, Syst. Veg. i. 168 ; Eeichenbacli, Iconograph. Botan. Exotic, t. 157 ; 

 J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 252 ; L. grandiflora. Sweet, Hort. Brit. 498 ; 

 Sisyriuchium ixioides, Forst. Prodrom. 325 ; Ach. Eioli. Voy. de I'Astro- 

 labe, i. 161; Ferraria ixioides, Willd. Spec. Plant, iii. 582;- Morsea 

 ixioides. Thumb. Dissert, de Morsea, p. 8 ; Renealmia grandiflora, R. Br. 

 Prodrom. Flor. Nov. Holl. 592; Sweet, Flower-Gard. t. 64; Loddig. Cabin. 

 t. 993 ; Nematostigma ixioides. Alb. Dietr. Syst. Willd. 228 ; Dav. Dietr. 

 Synops. Plant, i. 150. 



Chatham-Islands, on open places amongst grass. 



The scape is sometimes reduced to extreme shortness and thus 

 long surpassed in length by the leaves. 



The geographical distribution of the species of this genus is 

 interesting. L. ixioides occurs widely dispersed in New Zealand 

 and as remarked in Chatham-Island. L. micrantha seems restricted 

 to New Zealand. L. paniculata verges northward in Australia to 

 Mount Lindsay of Queensland, where it was collected by Mr. Walt. 

 Hill, and southward to the entrance of the Snowy River in Gipps- 

 Land, and may hence be sought for in the N. E. extremity of Tas- 

 mania. L. pulchella is known only from the vicinity of Port Jackson, 

 and specimina kindly communicated by Mr. W. WooUs, the assiduous 

 examiner of the vegetation around Parramatta, show this species to 

 produce black seeds, whilst those of the five other Australian and 

 New Zealandian species are brown. L. Lawrencii is not unfrequent 

 in the humid especially higher forest-regions of Tasmania, but in 

 the Australian Continent only found on the summit of Mount Juliet, 

 and on springy subalpine localities at the remotest sources of the 

 Yarra and La Trobe- River and their tributaries, usually consociated 

 with Oxalis Magellanica. L. azurea (L. stricta, L. laxa, L. graminea, 

 Endl. in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. ii. 32 ; Orthrosanthus multiflorus, 

 Sweet, Flor. Austral. 11, t. 11 ; Loddig. Cabinet, 1474 ; Paxton 

 Magaz. xi. 245 ; Wuerthia elegans, Regel, Garten-Flora, ii. 46) extends 

 in the vicinity of the coast-line from Cape Nelson of Portland Bay 

 to West Australia, being gathered in very many intermediate spots 

 of the mainland and also on Kangaroo-Island. The latter plant is 

 remarkable for the want of pedicels, the flowers being sessile and 

 clustered within the bracts and bracteoles. Its beautiful blue color 

 distinguishes it also from all congeners except the Chilian L. coeru- 

 lescens (Kunth in Linnsea, xix. 382). L. formosa (Graham in Lindl. 



