Tas. 7679. 
STYLIDIUM orasstrotivum. 
Native of South-western Australia. 
Nat. Ord. SryLiwiEa. 
Genus Styzipium, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iv. p, 29.) 
Sryiiprum (Thyrsiformes) crassifolium ; perennee acaule, rhizomate indurato 
ebulboso, foliis coespitosis radicalibus 4~8-pollicaribus anguste lineari- 
oblanceolatis acutis crasse coriaceis glaberrimis, supra saturate viridibus 
enerviis, subtus pallidis obtuse subcarinatis, seapo robusto, inflorescentia 
angusta valde elongata 1-2 pedali glanduloso-pubescente multi-laxiflora 
basi ramosa, ramis brevibus paucifloris, bracteis bracteolisque parvis 
subulatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis, ovario stricto $-2 poll. longo, 
calycis bilabiati lobis brevibus acutis, petalis paribus oppositis patulis 
dispositis subeequalibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis roseis basi appendi- 
cibus setaceis instructis, labello parvo oblongo decurvo appendicibus 
utrinque 2 patentibus setiformibus instructo, columna apice (ad basin 
antherarum) fimbriata, capsula lineari v. lineari-oblongi 4-3 poll. longa. 
S. crassifolium, Br. Prodr. p. 571. DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 385. Sond. in Lehm. 
Pl. Preiss, vol. i. p. 384. Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. iv. p. 29. 
8S. leptobotrys, DC. /.c. p. 783. Sond. Lc. p. 384? 
Dampiera? innandata, De Vriese in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. vol. i. p. 404, 
Of nearly ninety species of Stylidiwm described by Ben- 
tham in the “ Flora Australiensis,” S. crassifolium is the 
twelfth that has been figured in this magazine. It is a 
native of the south-western extremity of Australia, extend- 
ing from Phillips flats on the south coast, westward and 
northward to Fremantle on the west coast. 
It was raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from seeds 
received in 1898 from Quartermaster-Sergeant B. T. 
Goadby, of the West Australian Engineers, collected at 
Albany, King George’s Sound, where it grows on wet 
land, flowering in November. It thrives in a greenhouse, 
producing in spring racemes nearly two feet high. Ben- 
tham describes it as having no appendages, or very 
small ones on the lip, but there is a pair of long setiform 
ones on either side of that organ in the specimen here 
figured. 
Descr.—A tall, rigid, erect, nearly glabrous herb, with 
radical leaves four to eight inches long, and a narrow ° 
inflorescence up to two feet long. Leaves tufted, narrowly 
OcroBER Ist, 1899, 
