Kyeysl,jia.] CXXXV. LTLIACE^. 16i3 



by a glandular appendage. Stamens G, attached to the base of the segments and 

 shorter than them ; filaments tapering under the anther ; anthers oblong, erect, 

 the cells opening laterally in longitudinal slits, turned outwards when fully out. 

 Ovary sessile, 3-angled, 3-celled, with 3 or 4 ovules in each cell ; style deeply divided 

 into 8 recurved lobes stigmatic along their inner edge. Capsule nearly globular, 

 •opening loculicidally in 3 valves. Seeds bright-brown, tuberculose, with a large 

 strophiole, the embryo not completely enclosed in the albumen, but only covered 

 by the strophiole. Perennial with a knotty rhizome and the simple stems and 

 ovate or lanceolate leaves of Schelhammera, but the flowers axillary on a slender 

 peduncle. 



The genus is limited to the single species endemic in Australia. 



1. K. multiflora (many-flowered), Beichb. Iconogr. Exot. iii. 11, ^. 229 ; 

 lienth. Fl. Austr. vii. 32. Stems from a knotty rhizome, ascending or erect, 

 simple, flexuose, f to l|ft. high. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, clasping 

 the stem by their cordate base, acute, 2 to Sin. long, with numerous prominent 

 nerves connected by transverse veinlets. Peduncles axillary, bearing at their 

 apex 1, 2 or rarely 3 flowers on filiform pedicels, with 3 or 4 linear bracts at 

 i;he base of the pedicels and shorter than them, the whole inflorescence usually 

 shorter than the leaves. Perianth-segments ovate or oblong, about 4 lines 

 long, but varying in size, the lateral appendages at their base either dilated 

 •or 2 or 3 or even 4-lobed at their glandular apex. Capsule 3 or 4 lines 

 ■diameter. Seeds 2 lines diameter, obtusely angular, tuberculose, bright-brown, 

 with a large expanded strophiole. — Bot. Mag. t. 3905 ; F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 71 ; 

 Schelhammera m.iiltijiora, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1511, not of Br. ; Tripladenia 

 Cunningham a, Don in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1839, Ann. Nat. 46, Hist. sev. 1, iv. 

 282. 



Hab.; Pine River, Statter; Nerang Creek, Schneider; Macpherson Range, Tnjon; not 

 luncommon in southern localities. 



Order CXXXVI. PONTEDERIACE.ffi. 



Flowers usually slightly irregular, hermaphrodite. Perianth inferior, with or 

 ■without a distinct tube, the limb or whole perianth of 6 coloured petal-like lobes 

 or segments, imbricate in 2 series, all nearly equal and similar. Stamens 6 or 

 S, attached to the base of the lobes or segments, often dissimilar ; anthers 

 2-celled, opening laterally or inwards by longitudinal slits or terminal pores. 

 'Ovary superior, 3-celled or with 3 parietal placentas, with 1 or more ovules to 

 -each cell or placenta ; style single, with a terminal 3-lobed or 6-toothed stigma. 

 Fruit a capsule, opening' loculicidally in 3 valves, but sometimes enclosed in the 

 (persistent tube of the perianth. Seeds albuminous, with a slender embryo, the 

 radicle next to the hilum. — Aquatic herbs. Leaves usually petiolate, with 

 numerous parallel veins. Flowers blue or white, in spikes or racemes proceeding 

 irom the sheath of the last or only leaf of the scape, usually with 1 or 2 sheath- 

 ing bracts at the base of the peduncle. 



A small Order dispersed over the tropical and sub-tropical regions o£ both the New and the 

 'Old World, extending in North America to more temperate districts. The only indigenous 

 Australian species belongs to a genus confined to the Old World, whilst the other genera are 

 ■exclusively American. The Order only differs from Liliacese in the aquatic habit and the slight 

 irregularity of the flower.— Bent/t. 



iPerianth funnel-shaped. Stamens 6, anthers versatile. Ovary 1-celled 



by abortion, 1 ovulate 1. *Postederia. 



iPerianth funnel-shaped. Stamens 6, anthers versatile. Ovary 3-celled, with 



many ovules in each cell 2. 'Eiciiiiorxia. 



iPerianth campanulate, no tube. Stamens 6, anthers erect. Ovary 3-ceIled, 



witli many ovules in each cell 3. Monochoria. 



