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Calyx sessilis, nec intra bracteas pedicellatus, 3-33" longus; 
tubus fere penitus involucro occultus, intra quod vix minus 
serieeus ; lobi semilanceolati, sursum sensim angustati, Petala 
galeata, antheram includentia. Fructus ignotus. : 
C. ericifolia discedit foliis sepe minus arcte revolutis, bracteis 
angustioribus pallide fuscis, calycibus minoribus inferne glabris, 
stylo inferne velutino. 
Vidi autem e loeis seruposis Nov: Anglie plantas florum mag- 
nitudine et bracteis spadiceis a C. magniflora haud diversas, quz 
vero bracteas obtusatas tubo ealycis breviores, tubum calycis 
extus inferne glabrum, petala rosea distincte unguiculata igiturque 
fillamenta longius libera et stylum 2-3" longum inferne dense 
velutinum ostendunt ideoque probabiliter transitum a C. magniflora 
ad C. ericifoliam parant. Alia insuper specimina ex eadem regione 
habent flores minores, petala sessilia stylumque abbreviatum etsi 
basi velutinum. Omnium autem fructus pro comparatione hac- 
tenus deficiunt. 
Cyptandra amara. 
Smith, in Rees Cycl.; Rudge, in Transact. Linn. Soc. x. 295, t. 18, £. 2; C. 
spinescens, Sieb. in Cand. Prodr. ii. 38 ; C. Sieberi, Fenzl. in Enum. Plant. 
Hueg. p. 23; J. Hook. Fl. Tasm. i. 75; C. largitlorens, F. M. in Linnza, 
xxix. 292 ; C. nervata, Reissek, in Linnza, xxix. 291 ; C. alpina, J. Hook. 
Fl. Tasm. i. 75, t. xii. 
Ramulis puberulis demum szpe spinescentibus, foliis oblongis 
v. ovatis v. euneato-obovatis raro rhombeo-rotundis v. linearibus 
margine imperfecte v. anguste recurvis v. planiusculis utrinque 
glabris, floribus brevissime pedunculatis in apice ramulorum spicas 
perbreves foliatas constituentibus, calyce bracteas rotundatas 
aliquoties excedente extus tenuissime velutino, dentibus deltoideis 
tubo duplo triplove brevioribus raro eidem subzcquilongis, petalis 
subsessilibus, antheris inclusis, s£y/lo glabro swpe brevi, germinis 
vertice depresso tenui-velutino. i 
In collibus montibusque sterilibus przcipue lapidosis a tractu 
Grampians usque ad oras Australiz orientalis, hine usque in vici- 
nitatem fluminis Clarence extendens, austrum versus in Tlasmaniam 
progredriens, in alpes Ausiralice et Tasmanise et montes altiores 
Nove Anglis: assurgens. | 
Frutieulus erectus v. diffusus, rigidulus, ssepe multicaulis, spi- 
thamzus usque paucipedalis, patentim ramosissimus,  Ramuli in- 
terdum spiniformes. Folia 1-3" longa, integerrima, potius herbacea 
quam coriacea, brevissime petiolata, basin versus sepissime plana, 
interdum erassiuscula, ad costam presertim inferne incrassata. 
Stipule spadicez, inferne dilatatz», superne subulato-contractze, 
cireiter j" longs. — Bractez spadices, subglabrz ; interiores cir- 
citer 3" longe. Calyx intra bractearum involucrum sessilis, 13-23" 
longus. Petala margine incurva. Anthere minute. Stylus circiter 
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