122 Dr. Smith's Sketch of the Genus Conchium. 



ovate, partaking but little of the globular protuberant form of 

 those above described, and are not more than an inch long. The 

 leaves are scarcely so much, and are fully as slender as those of 

 C. aciculare. 



6. Conchium pugioniforfne, foliis teretibus glabris, corolld seri- 



ceo villosa, capsulis lanceolatis mucronatis basin versus 



muricatis. 

 Hakea pugioniformis. Cavan. Ic. v. 6. 24. t. 533. 

 II. glabra. Schrad. Serf, 27« *■ 17- 

 Near Port Jackson. Dr. White. 



Leaves an inch, or inch and half long, always smooth, as well 

 as the branches. The capsules are very peculiar. The flowers 

 and their stalks agree with those of C. longifolium, which may 

 probably be a variety of the present species, but this can only 

 be determined by comparing their ripe capsules, which I have 

 never been able to do. 



7. Conchium trifurcatum, foliis teretibus trifidis : quandoque 



dilatatis simplicibus ellipticis planis, corolla villosa. 



Gathered by Mr. Menzies at King George's Sound, on the 

 west coast of New Holland, latitude 35. 



This species is most remarkable for the variation in its leaves 



from a cylindrical to a broad flat figure, even on the same 



branch. In the same leaf indeed it sometimes happens that the 



lower half is flat, the upper cylindrical. The most general form 



of the leaves, however, is cylindrical, divided about half way 



down into three, nearly equal, spreading, spinous points. The 



flowers and flower-stalks are shaggy, with spreading hairs, not 



silky. 



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