324 LILIACEAE. [Arthropodium. 
hypogynous or attached to the very base of the segments, shorter than 
the perianth ; filaments bearded ; anthers linear, erect, basifixed, introrsely 
dehiscent. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; ovules several in each cell; style 
filiform ; stigma small. Capsule subglobose, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 
usually few in each cell, angular ; testa black, smooth or minutely granulate. 
Besides the 2 species found in New Zealand, both of which are endemic, there 
are 5 or 6 in Australia, and 1 in New Caledonia. 
Tall and stout, 1-2} ft. Leaves fleshy, 1-2in. broad. Flowers 
3-lin. diam. .. At, a + i , 
Slender, 3-12in. high. Leaves grassy, flaccid, ;4,-}1in. broad. 
Flowers 4+ in. diam. a ne - a .. 2. A. candidum. 
l. A. cirrhaium. 
Si hag | 
L.A ae -. Br, in Bot. Mag. (1822) t. 2350.—A perfectly glabrous 
tufted herb 1-3 ft. high; root with copious long fleshy fibres. Leaves 
numerous, spreading, 1-2 ft. long, 1-24 in. broad, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, narrowed to an equitant and subdistichous base, flat 
or obtusely keeled, rather fleshy. Scape stout, terete, naked; panicle 
large, often 1 ft. long, deltoid, much branched; primary bracts broad, 
foliaceous. Flowers white, 3-1 in. diam., 1-3 together along the branches 
of the panicle; pedicels 4-in. long. Perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate. Filaments filiform at the base, provided above the middle ~ 
with a thickened densely woolly appendage, which is produced downwards 
into 2 woolly tails. Capsule oblong-globose, 4in. long. Seeds black, 
opaque, angular.—A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 299; Raoul Chore (1846) 40 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 254; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 285; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 719. Anthericum cirratum Forst. f. Prodi. (1786) 
n. 148; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 155. 
= C22 dR 2 ww. a. Lf j- 
NortuH ISLAND : finn the Three Kit ystlatands ES North ue to Wellington, 
not uncommon, especially near the sea. SoutH Isnanp: Nelson—Takaka, Kingsley ; 
West Wanganui, Hursthouse. Marlborough—Pelorus Sound, Cockayne. Rengarenga. 
November—December. 
This differs from the other species of the genus in the woolly thickening at the 
middle of the filament being 2-lobed at the base, the lobes being revolute at the tip, 
somewhat after the fashion of a tendrill, from whence the specific name. 
Onwn—s- Sei. Wok. Guew. 2. 12°. 
9. A. eandidum Raoul Choix (1846) 14, t. 6.—A small slender 
glabrous herb 3-14in. high; stem often swollen below the leaves and 
almost bulbous; roots long, fleshy. Leaves variable in length, 2-101n. 
long, 4,+in. broad, very narrow-linear, flat, grassy, membranous and 
flaccid. Scape very slender; raceme simple, rarely branched, usually 
overtopping the leaves. Flowers few or many, usually secund, solitary or 
the lower ones in twos or threes, white, Lin. diam.; pedicels slender, 
spreading or drooping; bracts long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Fila- 
ments naked at the base, then densely hairy almost up to the anther. 
Capsule globose, membranous, }in. diam. Seeds 2-3 in each cell, black, 
angled.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 254; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 285 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 719. <A. reflexum Col. in Trans. N.Z 
Inst. xviii (1886) 275. A. ramulosum Col. l.c. xxv (1893) 337. 
Nortr anp SoutH Istanps: From Cape Colville southwards to Foveaux Strait, 
not uncommon. Sea-level to 3500 ft. November-January. 
I cannot see upon what grounds Mr. Colenso has distinguished his two species. 
The type specimens in his herbarium exactly match ordinary states of A. candidum. 
