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Tas. 4529. 
STYLIDIUM saxiFrRAGOIDEs. 
Saxifrage-like Stylidium. 
Nat. Ord. Stynrp1n#.—GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx bilabiatus. Corolla irregularis, 5-fida, lacinia quinta (Jabello) 
dissimili, minore, deflexa (raro porrecta), reliquis patentibus (raro geminatim 
coherentibus). Columna reclinata, duplici flexura: antheris bilobis, lobis diva- 
ricatissimis ; s¢igmate obtuso indiviso. Capsula bilocularis, dissepimento su- 
perne quandoque incompleto, Br. — 
Srytiprum savifragoides; dense cespitosum, foliis radicalibus rosulatis copio- 
sissimis linearibus acutis margine preecipue ciliato-seabris basi attenuatis 
apice piliferis, scapis glabris vix bracteatis, racemis floribusque breviter = 
glanduloso-pilosis simplicibus, corollis luteis labello tuberculato. 
Sryztrprum saxifragoides. Lindl. Swan River Bot. p. xxviii. Sonder in Lehn. 
Plant. Preiss. p. 374. 
Srytipium assimile. Benth. in Endl. Enum. Pl. Hugel. p. 72 (non R. Br.), 
according to Souder. 
This charming greenhouse plant, raised from seeds from the 
Swan River Settlement, was sent by Messrs. Veitch and Sons. 
of Exeter to the May Exhibition of the Horticultural Society 
for 1850, under the name of 8. ciliatum. ‘That plant, however, 
faithfully represented in our ‘Tab. 3583, is a very different, 
though nearly allied species, with the panicle compound, and, 
as well as the scaly scape, clothed with long patent hairs, tipped 
with dark-coloured viscid glands, and with flowers not hall the 
size of the present one. Sonder describes this as having the 
labellum inappendiculate, and perhaps he alludes to another 
plant; but the gland would probably escape his notice in the 
dried specimen. 
Descr. Root perennial, dividing at the crown so as to bear 
copious tufts of densely imbricated, spreading, rosulate, linear 
leaves, slightly incurved, yellow-green tinged with purple, tapering 
at the base, acute at the point, and there bearing a long hair or 
bristle; the margins especially, ciliato-scabrous. Scapes one or 
auGusT Ist, 1850. 
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