Astelva. | LILIACEAE. 315 
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Worrn anp Sour Istanps, ¥ STEWART IsLAND, AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL. 
Istanps: )Moist ground in subalpine localities from the East Cape and Ruapehu 
southwards, not uncommon. Usually from 3000 to 5000 ft., but descends to sea- 
level in Stewart Island and the Auckland islands. November—J anuary. 
‘wan: i VaF Paes 
3. A. Cunninghamii Hoof f Fi Nov. Zel. i (1853) 259.—A densely 
tufted species, epiphytic or terrestrial. Leaves numerous, 2-5 ft. long, 
1-lin. broad at the middle, drawn out into a long-acuminate point, con- 
tracted below, and then gradually widened into a broad sheathing base, 
rigid and coriaceous, glabrous or sparingly silky above, clothed with a thin 
silvery pellicle beneath; midrib and margins silky; nerves 10-12, usually 
one stronger than the rest on each side of the midrib, or sometimes @ 
prominent bundle of 2-3 placed close together ; margins recurved ; sheathing 
base clothed with long dense white silky hairs. Male flowers: Scape 
1-3 ft. long, very slender at the base, stouter above, trigonous, shagay 
throughout with silky white hairs, panicled above; branches numerous, 
slender, often flexuous and interlaced; bracts long, leafy. Flowers 
numerous, small, }in. long, greenish-yellow or reddish-yellow or maroon. 
Perianth-segments lanceolate, acuminate, spreading or reflexed, the 3 
outer rather larger than the inner. Stamens about 4 as long as the 
segments ; anthers small, broadly oblong. Female flowers: Scape shorter, 
with a smaller and more closely branched panicle, branches shorter 
and more erect. Flowers rather smaller; segments not so- spreading. 
Ovary ovoid-globose, 1-celled; ovules attached to 3 parietal placentas. 
Berry red, globose, tin. diam. Seeds linear-oblong, curved, terete, not 
angled.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 283; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
710. A. polyneuron Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 333. (@) A. 
eraminifolia Col. lc. xix (1887) 267. Hamelinia veratroides A. Rich. Fl. 
Nouv. Zel. (1832) 158, t. 24 (excel. fig: ¢, D). 
Var. Hookeriana 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iv (1872) 244.—Smaller and more 
slender, seldom exceeding 3 ft. Scape very slender; branches of male panicle seldom 
interlacing. Flowers rather smaller, claret-coloured. Berry nearly black, placentas 
, 
very feebly developed. F 
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Nortu Istanp: Abundant in woods throughout. SournH Is~tanp: Nelson 
Near Collingwood, H. H. Travers ; Westport, W. Townson! Charlestown, T. Kirk! 
Sea-level to 3500 ft. Kowharawhara. December—January ; ripe fruit November- 
December. Var. Hookeriana: Lava- fields on the Auckland Isthmus, Rangitoto 
Island, Little Barrier Island, &c. April-June; ripe fruit May—June. 
Very near to A. Banksii in habit and general appearance, but widely differing in 
the l-celled ovary and small globose berry with terete seeds. I have quoted A. Richard’s 
Hamelinia veratroides as a synonym, his drawing of the female panicle exactly 
corresponding ; but the section of the ovary given is that of A. Banksw, probably through 
some confusion of specimens. 49 (19 2S 
4, A. Banksii A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 296.—A large densely tufted 
terrestrial or rupestral species. Leaves very numerous, closely packed, 
erect, 2-6 [t. long, 4-14 in. broad at the middle, narrow-linear, tapering 
into a long-acuminate point, narrowed below and th expanded 
into a broad sheathing base, glabrous or slightly scurfy above, clothed 
with a thin silvery pellicle beneath, with 3-6 distinct and equally prominent 
nerves on each side of the midrib; margins recurved; sheathing™base 
most densely clothed with long soft silky hairs. Male flowers: Scape 
slender at the base, stouter above, trigonous, excessively shagey with dense 
white silky hairs, panicled; branches numerous, slender, often flexuous, 
4-9in. long; bracts at the base leafy, with long slender points. Flowers 
