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raro 2, circiter sesquilinoam longo?, e flaro pallescentc?, apieulo 



acuto terminataB ; loculi juxta dorsi me«liam gcminato-connnti, 

 Filameuta tria, breviuscula, haud e sex binatis consiantia. Pis- 

 tillodium nullum. Flores fennnei brevissime lateque pcdicellati, 

 bractea et bracteola lanceolato-linearibus sulTalti, quaruni illa 

 circiter sesquiliueamj lucc lineam longa. Sepala rigidula, 2^-4 

 longa, persistentia ; interiora exterioribus couspicue niiiiora ; ora- 

 nia bmceolato-linearia, tenui-acnminata, Stigmata 3 crassiuscn!n, 

 fulva, 2-6'" longa, fere recta^ pcrsistentia, basin versus agtate indu- 

 rantia, Capsula dura, ambitu hite rotundata, 3-4'" lata, secus 

 angnlos 3 compressos et valde promiuentes dehiscens, Semina 

 oblique rotuudo-ovata, scilicet in loculo solitarla, lentlculari-com- 

 pressa, V" metientia, cocrulescenti-albida, subtilissime reticulata. 

 Ilcec plauta inter Australianas coordinales bactenus notas fructum 

 maximum producit, qui eum Ceratocarvi nrgentei, Ilypodisci bi- 

 colorls et Cannamois simplicis a^quat vel fere excedit. 



AnartJiria lcevis (R. Br. Pr, 249) a siuu Kegis Georgi paltem 

 usque ad flumeu Blackwood-River et rivum Kaljzau exteudit* 

 Drummond hanc speciem sub numeris 343, 370 et 866 emisit, 

 PJanta faciem ostendit Lepidosperraatis longitudinalis. Caules 

 plano-compressi, ancipites, striati, haud asperi, 1-2' longi nisi 

 longiores, 1-2^^^ lati, Petioli 3-unciaIes v, breviores, omnes rn- 

 dicales, equitanti-compressi, non scariosi. Folia ensiformia, ^l^' 

 longa, circiter 2'" lata^ pungentia, rigida, striatii, non scabra, saepe 

 recta v. passim falcata. Inflorescentia fereLepyrodice, sed bracteis 

 cito orbata, irregulariter spicato- v, contracto-paniculata, 1-3" 

 longa, nullas spiculas plurifloras forma limitatas struens. Spathelte 

 supremai ad brevitatem ^'^reductae et canalioulato-lanceolata& atque 

 scariosas. Bractea et bracteola cujusvis floris cymbeo-lanceolata v, 

 illa rliombea ; amba? calvce conspicue breviores ; hrec illi minor. 

 Sepala utriusque sexus sex ; flornm masculorum Hneari-lanccolata, 

 circiter I^'" longa ; florum feminorum latius lanceolata, vix ultra 

 lineam metientia, Filamenta 3 capillaria, satis brevia. Antherai 

 6 uniloculatic, lineari-oblonga^, 1-H'" metientes, apiculata^, per 

 paria centrum dorsi versus connatrc ; vel si mavis tres biloculata?, 

 loculis disjunctis. Pistillodium nuUum. Germen angustum^ trigo- 

 num. Stigmata 3, sessilia, revoluta, vix lineam excedentia. Cap- 



sula et semina mihi ignota. 



Anarthria gracdis (R. Br. Pr. 249 non Kunth ; A, pauciflora, 

 R. Br. 1. c. ; A. ischa^moides, Nces in Lebm. Plant. Preiss. ii. 62 ; 

 A- canaliculata, Nees L c.) collectione Drummondi sub 73, 203, 

 344, 904 et 905 exhibitur. A promontorio Cape Leeuwin in vi- 

 ciniara proraontorii Cape Ricbe extendit, Caules 4-pedaIes v, 

 breviores, nonnunquam ad hurailitatem poIHcum quinque abbre- 

 viati, compresso-filiformes, striati. Petioli omnes radicales, antice 

 scariosi. Folia latitudine et striatura cauliam, quibus aequilonga 

 V. breviora. Spathella infima (sive spatha) 2-5" longa, usque 3'" 



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