314 LILIACEAE, [ A stelia. 
** Perianth enlarged in fruit, coloured within. 
* Leaves 2-6 ft. x 14-4in., 3-nerved. Flowers 1in. long, dark 
purplish-green. Female scape very stout, erect in fruit. Berry 
ovoid-globose, $-2 in. diam., orange-yellow .. }3 Ad 
Leaves 2-3 ft. x 1-1} in., rigid and coriaceous, silky on both 
surfaces, often villous a= 4 a ner 
Leaves 9-30 in. x 4-1} in., almost glabrous above, silvery-white 
beneath. Flowers sunk among the upper foliage-leaves .. 8 Ay Petrien 
Leaves 6-12 in. x $-1in., bronzy to glaucous-green above, shaggy 
with white tomentum beneath. Flowers sunk among the upper 
foliage-leaves . 10. A. nivicola. 
We 
1]. A. Sates Ne mm Subantarct. Is. of N.Z. ii (1909) 429, — 
A small densely tufted and compacted little herb, with the habit of 
A. linearis but much smaller. Rhizome long and wiry, wide-creeping, much 
branched, thickly covered with the decaying bases of the old leaves, and 
forming with the long stringy roots a closely matted turf from 1 to 3 in. 
deep or more. Leaves small, #-1in. long, erect or a little curved, pale 
and sheathing at the base, bright-green and shining above, terete or 
obscurely canaliculate, cylindric and acute at the tip ; sheaths membranous, 
hyaline, clothed with silvery erect or appressed scales. Scape very short, 
solitary, terminal. Flower solitary, similar to that of A. linearis, but 
smaller. Fruit unknown.—A. linearis var. subulata Hook. f. Fl. Antaret. 
i (1844) 76. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLanps: Wet peaty places on the hills, not uncommon, 
Hooker, Cockayne, B. C. Aston! J. 8. Tennant! R. M. Laing! Svewart Isuanp: 
Fraser Peaks, Cockayne. 
7. A. nervosa. 
8. A. Cockaynei. 
This differs much in foliage from all states of A. linearis, which has leaves from 
1-8 in. in length by ,,-+in. broad, channelled above and keeled below, more or less 
sulcate or grooved, and with the midrib and margins clothed with narrow hyaline 
scales. In A. subulata the leaves are seldom more than 2 in. long by =, in. broad, terete 
or canaliculate above, smooth and glabrous except the sheaths. I have seen only very 
imperfect flowering specimens. 
2. A. linearis Hook, f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 76.—A small densely tufted 
herb. Rhizome creeping, branched, clothed with the shagey bases of the 
old leaves. Leaves terminating the branches of the rhizome, all radical, 
crowded, spreading, 1-8in. long, ;41in. broad, narrow-linear, acute or 
acuminate, sheathing at the base, thick and coriaceous, nerved, often 
channelled above, slightly keeled beneath; margins recurved; both surfaces 
clothed when young with silvery or reddish-brown erect or appressed 
scales, becoming almost glabrous when old; sheaths broad, appressed, 
membranous, scarious, thickly covered with narrow hyaline silvery scales. 
Male flowers: Scape slender, equalling the leaves or shorter than them, 
simple or forked, 3~-9-flowered; bracts 1-2, linear-elongate ; pedicels 
rather long, slender. Perianth-segments silky externally, spreading or 
reflexed, knobbed at the tip. Filaments much shorter than the segments ; 
anthers oblong. Rudimentary ovary broad, narrowed into a short thick 
style. Female flowers : Scape very short, almost concealed at the base 
of the leaves, 1-5-flowered. Perianth-segments longer and narrower, 
erect. Staminodia present, minute. Ovary large, narrow oblong-ovoid, 
l-celled ; stigma-sessile, 3-lobed; ovules numerous, attached in 2 series 
to 3 parietal placentas. Berry large for the size of the plant, 4-4 in. long, 
narrow - oblong, obscurely trigonous, fleshy, red. Seeds obovoid, not 
angled, smooth, black, shining —Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 284; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 710. A. minima Ool. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii 
(1896) 611. 
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