1628 CXXXV. LILIACEiE; [Bulbine. 



2. B. semibarbata (half (3) of the stamens bearded), Hcuc. llev: PI. Succ. 

 83 ; BejitJi. Fl. Austr. vii. 85. Boots fibrous, without any tubfers under the stock. 

 Leaves usually narrow-linear, but varying in length almost as much as in 

 B. bulbosa. Scapes from a few in. to about 1ft. high, the racemes looser and the 

 floM'ers fewer and smaller than in B. bulbosa. Perianth rarely abovb 3 lines long., 

 and the pedicels usually longer. Stamens 3 opposite the outer segments almost 

 hypogynous, the filaments short without beards^ 3 attached to the base of 'the 

 inner segments with much longer filaments bearded above the middle or 

 immediarely under the anther, as in B. bulbosa. Capsule rarely above 2 lines 

 diameterj ripening 3 or 4 black angular seeds', often coarsely reticulate or 

 tubereulate on the angles. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 349 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. ii. 62 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 70 ; Anthericum semibarbatvm, R. Br. Prod. 

 275 ; Bulbine floribunda, Schrad. in various Botanical Gardens ; Trir/lochm 

 racemosmii, Endl. in PI. Preiss. ii. 54. 



Hab.: Damp land in many southern localities. 



Both species are known by the name of Native Onion or Leek and are considered poisonous to 

 cattle, sheep and horses. It has the same effect upon each kind of animal, but cattle are said to 

 survive the longest, sheep will linger about 3, horses 6 days. 



10. THYSANOTUS, E. Br. 



(From the Greek for a fringel) 

 (Chlamyspermujn, Saliib.)' 

 Perianth spirally twisted over the ovary after flowering, but sometimes at 

 length deciduous, of 6 distinct segments, all nearly equal in length, with an 

 opaque 3-nerved centre, the 3 outer usually narrow, acute with narrow thin 

 entire margins, the 3 inner with broad coloured margins, rolled inwards over the 

 inner stamens in the bud, and elegantly fringed on the edges. Stamens S 

 opposite the outer segments hypogynous or sometirhes wanting, 8 attached to the 

 base of the inner segments, all more or less declinate in the expanded flower, 

 shorter than the perianth ; filaments short or rarely nearly as long as the 

 anthers ; anthers linear, the parallel cells confluent at the apex and opening 

 longitudinally, the inner valve shorter and narrower than the outer one, those of 

 •the inner stamens usually longer than the others, and often terminating in a 

 long narrow beak. Ovary sessile or contracted into a short thick stipes, 8- celled, 

 with 2 superposed ovules in each cell ; style filiform, undivided. Capsule usually 

 globular, 8-valved. Seeds I or 2 in each cell, not flattened, the upper one erect, 

 the lower pendulous, the fuuiole expanded into a white or yellowish strophiole ; 

 testa black, thickly membranous or almost crustaeeous. — Perennials with a 

 tufted or thick often horizontal stock and fibrous roots thickened into tubers in 

 some species. Leaves radical, grass-like. Scapes leafless or nearly so, simple 

 or variously branched. Flowers in terminal or rarely lateral umbels rarely 

 reduced to a single flower. Bracts short scarious, imbricate. Pedicels artieulata 

 below the middle. • 



The species are nearly all Australian. 



Semes I. Kexandrae. — Stamens 6, 3 usually hut not always longer than the others. 



Stock densely tufted, with numerous radical leaves. No tubers. Umbels 

 single. 

 Slender and glabrous. Flowers 3 to 4 lines long, on long pedicels . , 1. T. chrysantherus. 



Stock usually tufted, with several radical leaves often rather , long. 

 Boots often tuberous. Scape paniculate at the end, with several 

 few-flowered umbels. 



Leaves very narrow. Panicle loose. Bracts 1 to 2 lines long. Stamens '' 



3 distinctly longer than the others 2. T. iuberosiis. 



Leaves few, shorter than the scp"° TTmhela a tn .H-flowered . , . . 3. T. Baueri. 



