1680 CXXXV. LILIACE^. [ArtUropodium. 



Ovary sessile, 8-celled, with several ovules in each cell ; style Gliform, ■with a 

 terminal stigma. Capsule 8-valved. Seeds usually few, black, angular, the testa 

 smooth or minutely glandular, not shining. — Tufted perennials, with the fibres' 

 often thickened into tubers. Leaves radical or crowded at the bas3 of the stem, 

 linear and grass-like, -with, scarious sheathing bases. Stems simple or with few 

 elongated branches, leafless or with only 1 or 2 short distant leaves below the 

 inflorescence. Flowers loosely racemose, the filiform pedicels solitary or few 

 together within a scariose bract, and when several accompanied by very small 

 bracteoles within the bract. 



The Australian species are all endemic, others are met with in New Zealand and New 

 Caledonia. 



Anthers shorter than the filaments, recurved after shedding the pollen ; 

 filaments with woolly-hairy appendages. 

 Flowers usually 2 or 3 to each bract. Filaments woolly-hairy only 



above the middle 1. A, paniculatum. 



Flowers usually solitary, small. Filaments shortly woolly-hairy from 



near the base 2. A. minus. 



Anthers longer than the filiaments; filaments very shortly hciry. 

 Inflorescence with few long branches. Perianth about 5 lines long. 



Leaves subulate, or if flat JJine broad 1. A. dianellaceum. 



1. A., paniculatum (paniculate), li. Br. Prod. 276 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vii. 56. Fibrous roots thickened into tubers, but only at a distance from the 

 stock. Stems erect, 1 to 2ft. high, usually divided above the middle into a few 

 long slender spreading flowering branches. Leaves narrow, crowded at the base 

 of the stems, from 2 or Sin. to nearly 1ft. long, with broad searioug sheathing 

 bases, and occasionally a smaller leaf on the stem below the inflorescence. 

 Flowers white or purplish, 2 to 4 together along the branches on filiform pedicels 

 from 2 or 3 lines to above lin. long, in the axils of minute bracts. Perianth- 

 segments 3 or rarely 4 lines long, the inner ones much broader than the outer, 

 and often but not always denticulate or almost fringed on the margin. Filaments 

 with a dense tuft of woolly hair^ only above their middle. — Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soo. XV. 852 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 50 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 66 ; Anthericum 

 paniculatum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 895 ; Pkalanrjium paniculatum, Poir. Diet. Suppl. 

 iv. 383 ; Anthericum milleflorum, Red. Lil. t. 58 ; Vhalangium pendulum, Red. Lil. 

 t. 8G0 (?) Bot. Mag. t. 1421, Endl. leonogr. t. 28; Anthericum pendulum, 

 Hornem. ; Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 371 ; Arthropodium pendulum, DC. ; 

 Kunth. Enum. iv. 620, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xv. 353; A. minus, Lindl. 

 Bot. Reg. t. 866 ; A. Lindleyi, Kunth. I.e. 621. 



Hab.: In several southern localities. 



2. A. minus (lesser), R. Br. Prod. 276 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 66. Roots a 

 fascicle of oblong tubers close to the stock. Stems slender, from under 6in. to 

 Iffc. or rather more, simple or rarely with one branch. Leaves radical, much 

 shorter than the stem, varying from 1 to 3 lines broad. Flowers solitary within 

 each bract or very rarely 2 together, usually smaller than in A. paniculatum, the 

 perianth-segments 2^ to 3 lines long. Filaments longer than the anther, the 

 woolly hairs extending over the greater part of their length. — Baker in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xv. 358 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 51. 



Hab.: Border of N.S.W. near Wallangarra. 



3. A. dianellaceum (Dianella-like), F. r. 21. Fraijm. x. 65 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vii. 57. Fibrous roots more or less thickened iijto tubers. Radical leaves 

 few, subulate or when flat not above i line broad, very shortly dilated into 

 sheaths and not split into filaments. Stems very slender, 1 to 1|- foot high, with 

 few filiform branches. Pedicels solitary, recurved, filiform, f to Jin. long. 



