322 LILIACEAE. [Phormium. 
shows the floral characters to be very similar to those of; P. Colensoi. A curious sport 
discovered by the late Bishop Williams at Blackhead, Taranaki, and described by 
him in Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxxvi (1904), 333, t. 25, is remarkable from the flowers 
being either accompanied by clusters of leafy bracts or altogether replaced by them. 
A plant grown in my own garden produced these leafy bracts, many of which were 18 in, 
long, for 4 or 5 years in succession, but in one year only did flowers appear as well. 
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Perennial herbs. Rootstock short, stout, with numerous fleshy almost 
tuberous roots. Leaves all radical, numerous, linear, sheathing at the 
base, often fleshy. Scape simple or very rarely branched, naked, terminating 
in a dense many-flowered raceme. Flowers rather small, yellow or white. 
Perianth marcescent, 6-partite; segments subequal, distinct or slightly 
connate at the base, l-nerved. Stamens 6, hypogynous or adnate to the 
base of the segments; filaments subulate-filiform; anthers versatile, 
Ovary subglobose, 3-celled; style filiform; stigma small, capitate, 
obscurely 3-lobed; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule broadly ovoid or 
subglobose, membranous, 3-celled, loculicidally 3-valvec. Seeds few, often 
compressed and triquetrous; testa black. 
About 16 species are known, al! confined to South Africa with the exception of the 
three described herein. In my memoir on the Systematic Botany of the Islands to 
the South of New Zealand (p. 464) I have expressed the opinion that Hooker’s genus 
Chrysobactron should be revived for the purpose of receiving the New Zealand species ; 
and I am not at ail sure that this course will not be ultimately adopted. So far, 
however, I find that the two groups are not separated by very pronounced characters, 
and I therefore postpone making any change until a careful investigation can be made. 
* Flowers dioecious. 
Tall and stout. Leaves often 2in. broad. Scape 2-3 ft. high .. lL. B. Rossii, 
Much smaller. Leaves. ensiform, 5-9in. long, $-lin. broad. Scape 
6-12 in. 3 a Ps 14 
2. B. Gibbsit. 
** Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Slender, usually 1-24 ft. high; leaves }-#in. broad .. rt .. 3. B. Hooker. 
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1. B. Rossii ,Benth. and Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii (1880) 784.—A stout 
perennial herb 9 in. to 3 ft. high ; stems sometimes 14 in. diam. at the base. 
Leaves numerous, all radical, outer spreading or recurved, inner ascending, 
6 in. to 2 ft. long, }-2 in. broad, broadly ensiform, obtuse or subacute, fleshy, 
glabrous, concave above, finely striate. Scape stout, erect, terete, +3 in. 
diam. Raceme very stout and dense, 3-6 in. long, 1-24in. diam. Flowers 
numerous, very densely crowded, bright-vellow, polygamo-dioecious, } 1. 
diam. ; pedicels slender, erect, 1-2in. long; bracts lanceolate. Ferianth- 
segments lihear-oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, spreading in the male 
flowers, more erect in the female. Stamens of the male flowers shorter 
than the segments ; filaments subulate, terete, glabrous; anthers Bes 
Ovary of the females broadly ovoid; style short, stout; stigma sma }, 
obscurely lobed. Capsule }-4in. long, broadly ovoid. Seeds usually 2 
in each cell, trigonous; testa black, shining —Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 717. Chrysobactron Rossii Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 72, tt. 44, 
45. Anthericum Rossii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 285. 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL IsLANDS: Abundant. December—January. 
A most magnificent plant, excellently figured and described in the “ Flora 
Antarctica.” Sir J. D. Hooker states that he has seen a specimen between 3 ft. and 
4 it. high, having 3 crowns of leaves, and bearing no less than 7 racemes of flowers. 41 
some localities on Campbell Island it forms so large a proportion of the vegetation, 
and the golden-yellow flowers are so abundantly produced, that its presence can P® 
observed at a distance of more than a mile from the shore. 
