CXXXI. AMARYLLIDEiE. 



6. DORYANTHES, Con-. 

 (Alluding to the flower-stem resembling a spear.) 



Perianth of G nearly equal deciduous segments spreading from near the base ; 

 the three inner ones slightly dilated at the base. Stamens 6; filaments linear - 

 subulate or shghtly dilated at the base ; anthers elongated, the basal lobes 

 closing over the filament. Style elongated, 3-furrowed, with an obtuse terminal 

 3-angleil stigma. Capsule 8 to 4in. long, oblong-clavate or turbinate, with a 

 woody endocarp opening loculicidally in 3 valves. Seeds flat, reniform, in 2 rows 

 in each cell. — Very tall herbs, with clustered roots and very long and numerous 

 radical leaves. Stems simple with short leaves. Flowers large, red to nearly 

 white, in short elongated spikes collected into a large terminal depressed panicle 

 or head or elongated into thyrsoid panicles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



1. S. excelsa (tall), Coirea in Tram. Linn. Soc. vi. 213, t. 23, 24; 



Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 452. Radical leaves above 100, 4 or more ft. long, 

 broadly sword-shaped. Stem 10 to 18ft. high with numerous short linear- 

 lanceolate erect leaves sheathing at the base. Flowers red, in a dense terminal 

 globular head of 1ft. or more in diameter, surrounded by a ^ew green acuminate 

 leafy bracts or floral leaves, the spikes or clusters within the head of 3 or 4 



