326 LILIACEAE. [Lphigenia. 
Capsule broadly oblong, usually 2-celled, §-4in. diam.—Cheesem. Mam. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 721. Anguillaria novae-zelandiae Hook. f. ex T. Kirk in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. x (1878) App. x1. 
Sourn Istanp: Canterbury—Lyall ; swamps near Christchurch, J. B, Armstrong / 
near Burnham, 7’. Kirk / Banks Peninsula, Cockayne / Lake Grassmere, J. D. Enys/ Cass 
River, Cockayne and Foweraker/ Rangitata Valley, Haast! Otago—Otepopo, Petrie / 
Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—December. 
Family XX. / AMARYLLIDACEAE. _ 
Usually perennial herbs, sometimes of large size. Rootstock bulbous, 
tuberous, tufted or creeping. Leaves generally all radical, narrow, not 
usually equitant or distichous. Flowers regular or slightly irregular, herma- 
phrodite, in terminal umbels or racemes or panicles, rarely solitary ; ped- 
uncles or scapes naked or bracteate. Perianth superior, petaloid, tube long 
or short, limb 6-lobed or -partite, sometimes bearing at the throat a petaloid 
corona (Narcissus, &c.). Stamens 6, inserted on the perianth-tube or at 
the base of the segments and opposite to them; filaments free or united 
at the base; anthers 2-celled, versatile, introrse. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; 
style filiform or columnar, stigma simple or 3-fid; ovules numerous, in 
2 series in the inner angle of each cell, anatropous. Fruit usually a 3-celled 
capsule with loculicidal dehiscence, rarely an indehiscent berry. Seeds gene- 
rally numerous, sometimes reduced to | or 2 in each cell; albumen fleshy ; 
embryo small, axile. 
A well-known and widely distributed family, found in all warm and temperate 
countries, but (like the preceding family) decidedly rare in Asia. Genera 65; species 
under 700. It includes the American aloe (Agave americana), which can be applied to 
a wonderful variety of uses. Both it and other species of Agave are valuable fibre- 
plants, A. rigida being the well-known sisal hemp. The ornamental species are very 
numerous, the principal genera being Narcissus, Galanthos (snowdrop), Leucovum (snow- 
flake), Hippeastrum, Amaryllis, Vallota, Crinum, Alstraemeria, Agave, Fourcroya. The 
single genus found in New Zealand is widely diffused. 
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1. HYPOXIS Linn, 495q- Sygt-“Ga. 1o- 9%. 
Small herbs. Rhizome bulbous or tuberous, coated with a membranous 
or fibrous sheath, Leaves radical, narrow, flat or terete, often hairy. Scape 
i- or many-flowered. Perianth regular, tube wanting; segments 6, nearly 
equal, spreading. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the segments and 
shorter than them; anthers erect, linear or oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary 
inferior, 3-celled ; ovules numerous in each cell, 2-seriate; style short, 
columnar; stigmas 3, stout, erect, distinct or connate. Capsule globose 
or oblong, membranous, 3-valved or circumscissile below the top. Seeds 
small, subgolobose ; testa crustaceous, shining, usually more or less beaked 
at the hilum. 
Species over 50, mainly confined to southern or tropical Africa, a few only in Asia, 
Australasia, or America. 
1. H.. pusilla Hook. f. Fl, Tasm. ii (1860) 36, t. 130B.—Very small, 
1-2in. high. Rhizome globose, bulb-like, clothed with the setose remains 
of the old leaves, 4in. diam. Leaves 3-6, $-2in. long, filiform, wiry, 
