52 
(i.e. initio racemi) pari foliorum donatus. Racemus solitarius, 
paucipolliearis usque pedalis ; rachis breviter et appressiuscule 
pubescens, juventute sspe csrulescens. Verticillastra setate 
dissita, e floribus 5—6 rarius 4 formata. Pedunculi speciales 
nulli. — Braetee intus pene glabrze, cordate, acuminatw, vix 
ultra £" longs, e cceruleo mox viridescentes, persistentes.  Pedi- 
celli subtiliter pubescentes, demum 1-23" metientes.  Calyces 
perbreviter et rigidule pubescentes, floriferi cyanei et linea paulo 
longiores, fructiferi 2-21" longi; labium superum fere 1" metiens, 
e laminà in dentes minutos laterales acutos decurrens ; labium 
inferum faucem claudens, integerrimum v. emarginatum. Corolla 
ecrulea, extus undique etsi brevissime pubescens; calear 1-2" 
longum, subulato-cylindraceum, curvato-adscendens ; tubus fere 
3" longus, cylindricus; labia intensius colorata; superum breviter 
et equaliter 4-lobum, lineam paulo excedens, lobis semiovatis ; 
inferum ovale. Filamenta libera, saltem per partem solutam 
glabra; inferiora brevissime emersa.  Anthers conformes, bilo- 
eulares, pzene nephroidez, glabrze, dorsifixz&, rima antrorsum 
hiantes. Stylus longitudine staminum inferiorum, glaber. Stig- 
mata minuta, ovalia. ^ Caryopsides globoso-ovatz, libere, 3" 
cireiter longze, fusez, pene leves. 
Species propriam generis sectionem nisi genus peculiare (Cera- 
rond efformat, cornu procero floris et forma calycis memora- 
m. ; 
 FinicEs. 
Alsophila Australis. 
R, Br, Prodr, 158 ; Hook. Spec. Filic. i, 50, t. 19, A ; J. Hook. Flor. 
' Tasman, ii. 132. 
Caudice crasso prealto, stipitibus tuberculato-asperis, frondibus 
bipinnatis, racAibus pallide fuscis v. fulvis levibus v. parce 
asperulis, pinnulis ambitu anguste lanceolatis longe acuminatis 
pinnatipartitis parce squamulosis v. glabris subtus glaucescenti- 
pallidioribus, laciniis oblique semilanceolatis acutis raro obtusis 
integerrimis v. subtiliter erenulatis sinu angusto et acuto disjunctis 
v. racheolis apteris, venis simplicibus v. frequentius furcatis, 
receptaculis breviter pilosis. : 
In Tasmania rarior quam Dicksonia antarctiea ; in declivitati- 
bus montium altiorum udorum et umbrosorum Ausiralim felicis 
passim creberrima, locos:sspe altiores quam eos Dieksonig occu- 
pans; in Neo-Cambria ad lllawarra, Shepherd; in Nova Anglia 
prope Tenterfield, C. St.; ad flumen Hastings River, Beckler; 
in tractu Blue Mountains L. Atkinson; ad flumina MeLeay's 
River, Clarence's River, Beckler; in monte Lindsay, W. Hill; 
ad Durando, Leichhardt; prope Broad Sound, Bowman. 
Hzc filix in terra Gipps's Land altitudinem 60' attinet. . Sori 
ON 
