Thysamtiis.] CXXXV. LILIACEiE. 1629 



1. T. chrysantherus (golden flowers), F. v. M. Lj-agm. v. 202; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vii. 40. Stock tufted, with fibrous roots not tuberous. Radical leaves 

 rather numerous, very narrow, shorter than the scape. Seape slender, simple, 

 6in. to above 1ft. long, bearing a single umbel of 3 to 6 flowers. Pedicels 

 filiform, much longer than and sometimes 3 times as long as the perianth. 

 Perianth usually about 4 lines long. Stamens 6, 3 of them longer but not very 

 much longer than the 3 others. Seeds with a white strophiole. — Baker in Journ. 

 liinn. Soe. xv. 387, under T. chinensis. 



Hab.: Musgrave Tel. Station, Cape York Peninsula, T. Barclay-Millar. 



2. T. tuberosus (tuberous), R. Br. Prod. 282 ; Benth. FL Austr. vii. 41. 

 Fibrous roots swollen into tubers more or less distant from the stock. Leaves 

 radical, not numerous, narrow-linear, varying from quite short to at least as long 

 as the scape, rarely above 1 line broad and sometimes very fine. Scape erect, 

 rigid, tei-ete, 6in. to above 1ft. high, branching into a loose irregularly dichoto- 

 mous panicle, varying from narrow-pyramidal to almost corymbose, each branch 

 terminating in an umbel of 1 to 3 or 4 flowers, with sometimes a second umbel 

 sessile on the branch rather lower down. ]3raets under the branches and 

 pedicels lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, with scarious margins, and usually 2 short 

 broad scarious bracteoles (often united into one) at the base of each pedicel. 

 Perianths when full-grown, 6 to 7 lines long in the larger varieties, scarcely 

 above 4 lines in the smaller, on pedicels varying from 3 or 4 lines to twice 

 that length. Stamens 6, the 3 opposite the inner segments nearly as long as 

 the perianth, ending in a narrow beak ; the 3 others shorter, often much shorter, 

 but the proportions very variable, and sometimes 1 or 2 of the longer ones fully 

 twice the short ones. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 335 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 

 69 ; Oharsley, Wild PI. Melb. t. 6, f. 1 ; T. iscmtherm, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 655, 

 not of R. Br. 



Hab.: Broadsound, B. Broion ; from Moretou Bay, F. v. Mneller and many others, to 

 Bockhampton, Bowman, O'Shanesy and others ; and Koekingham Bay, Dallachy ; Port Curtis, 

 M'GilUtraij. 



3. T. Baueri (after Francis Bauer), Ft,. Br. Prod. 283 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 

 42. Root-fibres swollen into ovoid or oblong tubers, generally distant from the 

 stock. Leaves not numerous, narrow, usually much shorter than the scape, with 

 rather broad scarious sheaths, but all withering very early, most specimens being 

 quite leafless. Seape from under 6in. to near 1ft. high, simple including the 

 inflorescence or slightly branched in the upper part. Umbels mostly 2 or 3- 

 flowered, and usually several sessile along the upper part of the scape and its 

 branches, besides the terminal one, the scarious bracts often rather large. 

 Pedicels rather shorter than the perianth. Perianth-segments varying in size as 

 in other species, but rarely under 4 or above 5 lines long, the opaque centres 

 very dark in the dried specimens. Stamens 6, unequal, but the 3 longer ones 

 sometimes not much exceeding the others. — F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 69 ; Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soe. xv. 336, but not the northern T. Banlcsii given as a synonym. 



Hab.: Southern localities, F. v. M. 



11. ARTHROPODIUM, R. Br. 



(Referring to the jointed pedicels.) 



Perianth persistent but not twisted, of 6 spreading segments, nearly equal in 

 length, but the inner ones broader, and often crisped or shortly fringed on the 

 edges. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the segments or almost hypogynous, 

 shorter than the perianth ; filaments shortly filiform, with a dense tuft of woolly 

 hairs or a papillose appendage in their upper part or occupying nearly the whole 

 filament ; anthers linear, erect, the cells opening inwards in longitudinal slits. 



