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- eorneo, embryone intra basin albuminis cylindraceo. 
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* XEROTES longifolia. 
Long-leaved Xerotes. 
DICECIA HEXANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. JUNCACEZX. 
XEROTES, R.Br. Flores dioici. Perianthium sexpartitum. Masc. 
Petala tantum, nunc etiam sepala, basi connata. Stamina 6, perigyna. Fam. 
Sepala et Petala distincta aut in cyathum carnosum connata. Stamina quasi 
completa, sed sterilia. Ovarium superum, tristylum, 3-loculare; loculis mono- 
spermis, ovulis peltatis. Capsula nitida, 3-locularis, 3-sperma, epicarpio ab 
endocarpio sponté secedente, dehiscentià loculicidà. Semina peltata, albumine 
Herbe rigide, vultu 
varie. 
X. longifolia; acaulis, foliis elongatis linearibus coriaceis strictis apice eroso- 
dentatis: marginibus scabris (?), paniculis lanceolatis subcoarctatis; ramis 
oppositis, scapo planiusculo. R. Brown prodr. 262. 
Lomandra longifolia. Labillard. nov. holl. 1. 92. t. 119. 
Acaulis. Folia rigida, dura, ensiformia, margine levia, apice truncata 
et tridentata, Scapus compressus, tenuis, erectus, foliis equalis, paniculatus ; 
ramis lanceolatis multifloris : Bractese bracteoleque lineares, acuminatissime, 
rigide, ramulis floribusque longiores. Flores foeminei herbacei, carnosi ; 
perianthio basi carnoso, bracteolis obtusis imbricatis suffulto. Sepala petalis 
paulo minora, in serie omnind externá ordinata. Stamina 6, quorum sepalina 
petalinis paulo inferiüs inseruntur. Ovarium obovatum, 3-loculare ; ovulis 
carnosis, solitariis, peltatis. Styli 3, approximati, clavati, apice divergentes. 
Capsula sicca, testacea, ovata, nitida, 3-valvis, loculicido-dehiscens ; epi- 
carpio cartilagineo separabili reflexo, endocarpio duro ligneo contractili. 
Semina pallida, oblonga, albumine duro, corneo, embryone cylindraceo intra 
basin albuminis latente, 
This plant is a hard, dry, evergreen-leaved, herbaceous 
plant, exhibiting a state of the Rush-tribe when they assume 
a state materially different from that of their type. It in- 
* So named by Dr. Brown, from ¿npoc dry, in allusion I presume to the 
aridity of the foliage. 
