CXXXV. LILIACE^. 1641 



23. ANGUILLARIA, Br. 



(After Luigi AnguiUara, a Professor of Botany at Padua, wlio 3ietl in 1570.) 



Perianth persistent, of 6 distinct spreading segments, all equal and similar. 

 Stamens 6, attached to the base of the segments or almost hypogynoas, shorter 

 than the perianth; filaments filiform, dilated towards the base; anthers ovate- 

 oblong, versatile, the cells opening laterally in longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, 

 3-celled, with rather numerous ovules in each cell ; styles 3, distinct or united at 

 the base, shortly filiform, recurved, stigmatic along the inner edge at least 

 towards the end. Capsule prominently 3-angled, opening loculicidally in 8 valves. 

 Seeds small, globular, the testa thin brown and appressed ; albumen fleshy, 

 rather hard. Embryo small, near the hilum. — Small herbs, the base of the stem 

 and persistent brown leaf-sheaths thickened into a narrow tunieated bulb. 

 Leaves few, linear, the. uppermost reduced to a broad loose sheath and short 

 lamina or point. Flowers often more or less dioecious, either solitary and 

 terminal or sessile along the rhachis of a simple spike. Bracts none. 



The genus is endemic in Australia. 



1. A., dioica (male and female plants distinct), B. Br. Prod. 273 ; Bentk. 

 Fl. Austr. vii. 29. Bulb tunieated. Stem varying from 2 or gin. to nearly 1ft. 

 high. Leaves few, the lowest reduced to brown elongated sheaths, perfect ones 

 usually 8 or 4, linear, varying from 1 to 8 or even 4in. long, the lowest sometimes 

 narrow from the base, the others more or less dilated at the base into a broad 

 loose sheath, the uppermost often reduced to the broad base with a short point or 

 only acute, and therefore sometimes called a spatha. Flowers either solitary and 

 terminal or 1, 2 or more sessile along the simple rhachis which is often flexuose, 

 polygamous, the strictly female ones without staminodia generally on a separate 

 plant, the males and hermaphrodites usually in' one spike. Perianth- segments 

 oblong or linear, 8 to 6 lines long, bearing below the middle on the upper surface 

 a transverse gland sometimes broken up into 2. Styles shortly filiform, distinct 

 from the base. Capsule ovate or oblong, truncate at the top, 4 to 5 lines long, — 

 Endl. in PL Preiss. ii. 44 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 46 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 3 ; 

 A. biylandulosa and A. uniflora, R. Br. Prod. 273; A. 77ioHa?!t/io, Endl. in PI. 

 Preiss. ii. 45 ; A. australis, F. v. M. Fragm.. vii. 74 ; Fleea Sieberi, Eeichb. in 

 Sieb. PI. Exs, ; Melanthmm Broimii, Schlecht. Linnsea, i. 86. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay, Leiclihardt ; Warwick, Bcckler ; Darling Downs, IVoolls ; Armidale, 

 Perron ; Eoclshanipton, O'Shanesy; Stanthorpe. 



24. IPHIGENIA, Kunth. 

 (After the priestess to Diana.) 



Perianth deciduous, of 6 distinct spreading segments, all equal and similar. 

 Stamens 6, hypogynous, very much shorter than the perianth ; anthers ovate- 

 oblong, versatile, the cells opening laterally in longitudinal slits. Ovary sessile, 

 3-celled, with rather numerous ovules in each cell ; styles 3, very shortly 

 united at the base, recurved, stigmatic along the inner edge. Capsule less 

 angular than in Angidllaria, opening loculicidally in 3 valves. Seeds small, 

 globular, the testa thin brown and appressed ; albumen fleshy. Embryo small, 

 near the hilum. — Herbs forming a small tunieated bulb, the stem simple, with 

 few narrow leaves. Flowers few, on long pedicels, or sessile in a species not 

 Australian. 



The Australian species is widely distributed over East India. The genus is closely allied to. 

 Anfjnillaria, and was included in it by B. Brown, differing from it chiefly in the separately 

 deciduous perianth-segments and stamens. 



1. I. indica (Indian), Kunth. Emm. iv. 213; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 31. 

 Stems simple, about 1ft. high in the Australian specimens, slender, with a few- 

 rnf.lnpv Innff linpar nr 1inpfl.r-ln.nceolate leaves, sheathing at the base. Flowers 



