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the leaves, usually with 1 or 2 cauline leaves below the inflorescence, 
Panicle broad; branches alternate from the axils of membranous sheath- 
ing bracts, bearing subumbellate clusters of 2-10 rather large white flowers 
on long pedicels. Perianth variable in size, 4-lin. diam.; the 3 outer 
segments oblong or elliptic, often greenish on the outside; the 3 inner 
larger and broader, broadly oblong or orbicular, pure-white. Capsule 
broadly oblong or obovoid, 4-4 in. long.—A, Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 307; 
Raoul Choixz (1846) 41; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 252; Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. (1864) 274; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 699. LL. restioides Klatt 
m Linnaea, xxx (1861-62) 383. L. orbicularis Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xv (1883) 329. Sisyrinchium ixioides Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) n. 325; A. Rich. 
Fl, Nouv, Zel. (1832) 161. Ferraria ixioides Willd. Sp. Plant. iii (1800) 582, 
Renealmia ixioides Ker-Gawl Gen. Irid. (1827) 27. Nematostigma ixioides 
A. Dietr. Sp, Plant. 11 (1833) 27. 
Var. a.—Bracts all lanceolate. 
Var. b.—Upper bracts ovate, acute. 
North anp Sours Istanps, Stewart IsnAND, CHatHAmM Is~LaAnps; Abundant 
from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 2000 ft. Tukauk. October- 
December, 
A very variable Rp )" 6 appears to be rare in the North Island. 
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2. L. grandiflora Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. ii (1830) 498.—Habit of L. iaioides, 
but taller and stouter, 2-3 ft. high, with leaves }-1in. broad, Flowering 
stem and bracts much as in L. ixioides. Flowers rather larger, the inner 
perianth-seoments much larger and broader than the outer, often 3 or 4 
times as large. Capsule much larger, }3in. long, broadly oblong or 
obovoid, yellow when fully ripe—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 274; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 699. L. macrocarpa Klait in Linnaea, xxxi 
(1861-62) 384. Renealmia grandiflora R. Br. Prodr. (1810) Add. 592. 
Nort 4np Sourn Istanps: From the North Cape to Otago, but not so common 
as L. ixioides, October-November. 
But for the great difference in the size of the capsule this might very well have 
been regarded as a variety of L. ixioides, 
3. L, pulehelia Spreng. Syst. i (1825) 168.—Small, slender, 3-9 in. high. 
Rhizome often elongated, sometimes branched at the top. Leaves 2-6 in. 
long, 7;-4in. broad, grassy, hardly rigid, margins smooth or ciliolate. 
Scape usually longer than the leaves, bearing a single terminal subumbellate 
cluster of 3-8 small white flowers, or in large specimens 1 or 2 other clusters 
