VII. LILlAGEiE. 
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4. DIANELLA, Lamarck. 
Herbs with short tufted rhizomes. Leaves very long, linear, rigid, equitant or 
sheathing. Scapes bearing compound panicles. Flowers jointed on the rigid, 
curved pedicels, white or blue, drooping, hermaphrodite. — Perianth of 6 nearly 
equal, spreading, deciduous leaflets. Stamens 6 ; filaments incurved, thick- 
ened upward. Ovary 3-celled ; style filiform, stigma simple ; ovules numerous 
in each cell. Berry globose or oblong, many-seeded. Seeds globose, with 
metallic crustaceous testa. 
A genus of no great number of species, natives of Madagascar, the South Sea Islands, India, 
Australia, and New Zealand. 
1. D. intermedia, Endl. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 255. Eootstock woody, with 
underground runners. Leaves 1-5 ft. long, narrow linear-ensifonn, rigid, 
rough on the edges. Panicle 10-18 in. long, much branched ; peduncles and 
pedicels very slender, the latter curved. Flowers small, greenish-white, nod- 
ding, \ in. diam. Anthers linear. Berry | in. long, dark blue. 
Northern and Middle Islands : frequent iu fern lauds and iu woods, Banks and 
So/ander, etc. Also a native of Norfolk Island. 
5. ASTELIA, Banks and Solander. 
Large or small tufted herbs, usually more or less clothed with silky, shaggy, 
or chaffy hairs. Leaves all radical, long, narrowed from base to tip, sheath- 
ing the scape. Flowers numerous (rarely few) in branched racemes or pani- 
cles, white greenish or purplish, dioecious. — Perianth coloured, petaloid or 
rather dry in texture, campanulate or rotate, silky, 6-partite. Stamens G. 
Ovary 3-gonous, 1 or 3-celled; style short or 0, stigma 3-lobed; ovules few 
or numerous, pendulous from the top of the cells, or attached to central or 
parietal placentas. Berry 1-3-celled, few- or many-seeded. Seeds oblong, 
angled or terete ; testa black, brittle ; albumen fleshy ; embryo small. 
A small genus, confined to the alps of Australia and Tasmania, New Zealand, the Pacific 
Islands, and Antarctic America. The New Zealand species are all dioecious, and, from grow- 
ing usually ou lofty forest trees, it is most difficult to match the sexes. I am not satisfied 
with the following determination of the species, which is that proposed in FI. N. Z., since 
the publication of which no one has attempted to clear up their limits, as there urgently 
desired. 
Perianth not enclosing the fruit. Berry \-celled. Seeds terete. 
Leaves 2-5 ft., silky and shaggy. Berry globose 1 .A. Cunninghamii. 
Leaves 1-6 in., glabrous or scaly. Berry ovoid 2. A. linearis. 
Perianth usually enclosing the ripe fruit. Berry Z-celled. Seeds angled. 
Leaves 1-3 ft. x in., strong, glabrous or silky ; nerves 3 . . 3. A. nervosa. 
Leaves 2-4 ft. x 3 in.; nerves 3. Filaments \ in. long . . . . 4 .A. So/andri. 
Leaves 2-5 ft. x J-f in. ; nerves obscure. Perianth rotate. Filaments 
subulate 5 .A. Banksii. 
1. A. Cunninghamii, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 259. A large, tufted, very 
silky herb. Leaves 2-5 ft. long, spreading and recurved, -£-1 in. broad, 
plaited, silky and villous. Male : Scape 1— 1J ft., angled, flexuose, shaggy, 
much and widely branched. Flowers numerous. Perianth rotate, £ in. diam. ; 
segments acuminate, red-brown when dry. Female : Scape 1 ft. ; branches 
crowded, erect, 3-8 in. long. Perianth as in male. Ovary globose ; style 
