86 



lanta spithamsea v. humilior, glabra, fere prolifera, intricate 



csespitosa, erecta. Rhizoma fibras tenui-filiformes rigidulas 



simplicesque demittens. Folia longitudinem 2" attinentia, saepe 



vero breviora, rigidula, flexuosa, scabriuscula, striolata, mucronu- 



lata, radicalia basi membranam stipularem hyalinam tenerrime 



scariosam 3-4"' longdm apice breviter bifidam simulque antice 



serrulatam producentia ; folia floraUa in squamam ovatam acumi- 



natam circiter 2'" longam sequaliter hyalinam magna ex parte 



liberam basi expandentia ; fasciculus horum foliorum prosterea 



extus squamis aliquot latis scariosis involucratus. Flores in 



fasciculo fere sessiles v. brevissime pedicellati ; omnes bisexuales, 



sed interiores vix fructum maturantes. Bracteolse hyalino- 



membrane^, ad basiin calycis solitarise, cymbeo-ovatse, subulato- 



acuminatae, 2'" longse v, breviores. Ima basis calycis persistens, 



Flores exteriores in statu sicco llvidi, interioribus pallidiores 



graciliores et longiores, circiter 3'" longi ; sepala linearia, obtusa, 



3-nervia, secus quadrantem inferam connata, superne in tubum 



gequalem et tenuem conniventia. Horum filamenta brevissima, 



dilatata, plana, membranea. Antherse flav£Q, subulato-lineares, 



basi breviter bilobee, fere l^Mongge, primum cohfierentes ; loculi ad 



apicem mox breviter soluti. Florum interiorum calyx circiter 2 



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longus, 



tenui-obconicus, basi acutus 



segmenta 



basim versus 



connata, anguste oblonga. Antherse oblongae, acut^s, aut fere 

 sessiles, aut passim filamento conspicuo prffiditse, juxta basim 

 calycis insertae. Pollinis granula Isevia, globoso-tetrahedra. ^^'-^"" 



Stylus 



Capsula circiter IJ'" metiens, trigastro- 

 globosa ; valv^e tenuiter cartilagineo-crustaceae. Columella lineari- 



circiter sesquilinearis. 



triquetra, a valvis ajtate secedens, persistens, longitudinem cavitatis 

 semiaequans. Semina in Ibculis bina v. passim solitaria, renato- 

 ovata, ^'" longa, haud angulata, subtilissime punctulata. Strophiola 

 fere conica, flexuoso-marginata, circiter seminis dimidise longitu- 

 dinis, 92tate nigrita, Albumen et embryo seminum hac occasione 

 examinatorum haud evoluta erant. 



r 

 P 



minoribus 



Johnsonta lupulina, 



r. 287 ; Bauer IUustr. tab. i. ; J. teretifolia, Endb in Lehm. 



Plant. Preiss. ii. 40. 



major, glabra^ hracteis pluribus inferiorihus sensim 



vacuis, infimis valde abbreviatis, calyce deciduo, 

 seminibus magnis ovatis. 



A promontorio Cape Riche saltem ad flumen cygnorum extendit ; 

 sed extrenios limites hujus plantae et perplurium aliarum Australise 

 occidentalis nemo hactenus annotavit. Drumm. 211 et 350. 



Folia et scapus Genosiris. Folium florale scapo fere continuum, 

 longitudine varium ; alterum minus huic passira oppositum. Spica 

 raro nutans, frequentius tantum natens. interdnm Pi.Iam fRfate 



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