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VII. L'lLl ACE/E. 
[Aslelia. 
short; ovules from the upper part of 3 parietal placentas, imbedded in 
mucilage. Berry globose. Seeds 6-8, linear, terete, curved ; testa thick ; in 
germination the embryo pushes before it a small black operculum. 
Northern Island: common on limbs of forest-trees. Middle Island: Aorere valley, 
Travers. Very like A. Banksii, but differs in the larger flowers, ovary, fruit, and seeds. 
2. A. linearis. Hook./. FI. Antarct. i. 76 ; — FI. N.Z. i. 260. A small 
tufted herb, glabrous or more or less covered with appressed chaft'v hairs. 
Leaves spreading, 1-6 in. long, narrow linear, acuminate, keeled, margins 
recurved, silky and villous at the base. Scape few-tiowered, shorter than the 
leaves. Berry elongate, obtusely 3-gonous, red. Seeds obovoid, shining, 
not angled. 
Northern Island : swamps on the summit of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso. Lord 
Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island : boggy ground on the bare hillsides, 
J. I). H. 
3. A. nervosa. Banks and Solander ; — FI. N. Z. i. 260. Densely 
tufted. Leaves 1-3 ft. long, narrow linear-subulate, in. broad, silky or 
glabrous, rigid, with 3 very strong, often red nerves. Male : Scape 1 ft. long, 
glabrate or very silky. Flowers scattered on long branches, pedicelled. Pe- 
rianth in. diam., rotate with a hemispherical tube, cut to below the middle ; 
segments broadly linear-oblong, acute. Stamens on the middle of the seg- 
ments ; filaments slender ; anthers broadly oblong. Female : Scape shorter, 
stout, much branched. Flowers stoutly pedicelled. Perianth of the male. 
Ovary conical, 3-gonous. Berry 3-celled, with a stout style, sunk in the 
baccate tube of the perianth, yellow. Seeds black, shining, angled. 
Northern Island: forming dense masses in alpine bogs, Banks and Solander ; Taupo 
aud Ruahine range, Colenso. Middle Island: Nelson mountains, alt. 5000 ft., Bidwill ; 
Akaroa, Raoul ; Canterbury, alpiue meadows, amongst grass, alt. 2500-5000 ft., Haast ; 
Otago, Lindsay. 
4. A. Solandri, A. Cann. ;—Fl. N. Z. i. 260. A very large species. 
Leaves 2-4 ft long, spreading and recurved, 3 in. broad at the base, and 
there clothed with dense, snow-white silky, villous wool, glabrous above, silky 
below, with 3 very strong nerves. Male: Scape stout. Panicle 6-18 in. 
long; branches, with the flowers on, 1 in. across. Flowers very crowded, 
shortly pedicelled. Perianth very large, \ in. long, membranous ; segments 
linear, obtuse, silky externally. Filaments y in. long ; anthers linear-oblong. 
Female : Scape stout, curved. Panicle with very long slender (rarely short, 
stout) branches, 8-12 in. long. Flowers close-set, fascicled or whorled ; 
pedicels slender, \ in. long. Perianth much smaller and more scarious than 
in the male; tube hemispheric ; segments recurved. Ovary globose, 3-celled ; 
style straight. 
Northern and Middle Islands : common on trunks of trees, Banks and Solander, 
etc. I have no positive assurance of the plints here described as male aud female belonging 
to one species, but have no reason to doubt it. 
5. A. Banksii, A. Cann.; — FI. N. Z. i. 260. Habit and foliage as in 
A. Cunninghamii. Leaves 2-5 ft. long, -|— | in. broad, glabrous or silky. 
Male : Panicle densely silky ; branches long, slender. Perianth glabrous, j 
in. diam. ; segments narrow, acuminate. Filaments subulate ; anthers broadly 
