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Phyllachne.]

3. P. rubra, Cheesem.—Stems shorter than in P. clavigera, ½–1 in. high, densely tufted, frequently bare of leaves below. Leaves erect, very densely imbricated, linear, not dilated at the base or very obscurely so, very thick and coriaceous; tips much thickened, forming a large globose knob. Flowers ⅙–⅕ in. diam., white, but becoming dark-red when dry. Corolla-lobes 5–7, unequal. Column stout, included or slightly exserted.—Helophyllum rubrum, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 168; Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiv. (1882) 351, t. 31, f. 2.

A small stemless perennial herb. Leaves numerous, all radical. Scape short, 1-flowered. Calyx more or less evidently 2-lipped; lower lip 2-tid, upper lip 3-tid. Corolla almost regular, campanulate, deeply 5-lobed; the lobes equal in size, irregularly spreading. Column short, straight, erect, much shorter than the corolla-lobes; anthers didymous, 4-celled and 4-lobed; lobes ultimately spreading; stigma placed between the anthers, 2-lobed, lobes spreading and deflexed. Ovary 2-celled or 1-celled by imperfection of the dissepiment; ovules numerous, attached to the centre of the dissepiment. Capsule coriaceous, indehiscent or tardily rupturing, more or less completely 2-celled. Seeds numerous, obovoid; testa lax, cellular.

1. O. subulatum, ''Berggr. in Minnesk. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund.'' (1877) n. viii. 1, t. 1.—Small, densely tufted. Rootstock short, often emitting stolons; roots long, fibrous. Leaves spreading and recurved, ½–1½ in. long, linear-subulate, mucronate or almost pungent, rigid when dry, concave above, slightly convex beneath, quite glabrous; margins entire. Scape much shorter than the