■ConhjUne.] CXXXV. LILIACEJ:. 1627 



8. C. Stricta (ns|,rrow), Kiidl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 162; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vii. 22. Habit and stature of C. terminalis, but the leaves very much narrower, 

 rarely lin. and often not above ^in. broad when 1 to 2ffc. long. Perianth almost 

 violet, inflorescence of C, terminalis, except that the three outer segments of the 

 perianth are distinctly shorter than the inner ones when the flower is fully out, 

 and sometimes not above f of their length. The pedicels are also usually very 

 short or the flowers quite sessile. Fruit purple. — P. v. M. Fragm. v. 195 ; 

 Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 544 ; Dracana stricta, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2575 ; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 950 ; Charlwoodia congesta. Sweet. Fl. Austr. t. 18 ; Cordyline 

 ■angustifolia and C, congesta, Kunth. Enum. v. 32 ; C. rigidifulia, C. Koch and 

 JBouche in Berl. Gartenzeit. quoted by Baker. 



Hab.: Islands of Moreton Bay. 



9. BULBINE, Linn. 



(Some species forming bulb-like tubers.) 



Perianths deciduous, of 6 equal segments, free or slightly connected at the 

 3)ase. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the perianth, and shorter than its 

 ^segments ; filaments filiform or shortly dilated at the base, bearded above the 

 middle by a dense tuft of filiform or clavate hairs ; anthers oblong-linear, 

 iusually recurved or twisted after shedding the pollen, the cells opening inwards 

 Tin longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, 3-ceIIed, with several ovules in each cell 

 superposed in 2 rows ; style filiform, with a terminal stigma. Capsule nearly 

 .globular, 3-valved. Seeds few, angular, black, the testa opaque, smooth or 

 tubercular-granulate. — Perennials, with fibrous roots proceeding sometimes from 

 .a thick tuber under the stock. Leaves radical or crowded at the base of the 

 stem, with short sheaths. Scape simple, leafless, ending in a simple raceme of 

 yellow flowers, the pedicels solitary within a scarious bract, and articulate 

 immediately under the flower. 



Besides the two species endemic in Australia, there are a considerable number natives of 

 South Africa. 

 Perianth usually a^^out Jin. long or more. All the filaments bearded. 



Boot often tuberous 1. B. hulbosa. 



IPerianlh about Jin. Only the 3 inner filaments bearded. No tuber to the 



root 2, B. semibarbata, 



1. B. bulbosa (bulb-shaped tube), Han-. Bev. PI. Succ. 33 ; Benth. Fl. 

 .Austr. vii. 34. Eoots in old plants forming a bulb-shaped tuber immediately 

 under the stock, but not really bulbous. Leaves all radical, linear-subulate, 

 irather thick, grooved in front, from under 6in. to above 1ft. long, with very short 

 sheathing bases. Scapes 1 to 2ft. high, the raceme when fully out often above 

 '6in. long. Scarious bracts varying from very short to half as long as the 

 ipedicels. Pedicels erect, rarely longer than the flowers when first out, but 

 lengthening more or less after flowering. Perianth-segments oblong, usually 

 5 to 6 lin^ long, but sometimes at least 8 lines, yellow, with a narrow dark 

 ■obscurely 3-nerved centre. Filaments all equal or the inner ones longer, the tuft 

 -of hairs sometimes very short immediately under the anther or rather below it, 

 sometimes occupying the upper half of the fllament with the anther almost 

 buried in it ; itself quite glabrous, usually shorter than the filament. Capsule 

 •erect, about 3 lines diameter, ripening 1 or 2 seeds in each cell. — Baker in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xv. 345 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 51 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 70 ; 

 AntJiericum hulbosum, R, Br. Prod. 275 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3017 ; A . semibarhatum, 

 Hook. Bot. Mag. i 3129, not of R. Br. ; Bulhine australis, Spreng. Syst. ii. 86 ; 

 B. suavis, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 45 ; B. Fraseri and B. Hookeri. Kunth. 

 Enum. iv. 565, 566. 



Hab.: Condamine Eiver, Leichhardt; Darling Downs, Woolls ; Curriwillighie, Dalton; 

 lurnett Biver, Holy. 



