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noununquam purpurascentes, Petioli arcti, aphyllij interdum acu- 

 minati, juniores teuerrima membraua raox lacera tenniuati. Pani- 

 culie ramos terminaiites ; mascula^ femincis omnino dissiniiles, 

 effusa} i ramuli pertenues, primum albido-tomentelli, demum 

 glabrescentes. SpiculEe 2-3'" longre, corapres?a3, fere ovata}, iu 

 ramulis spiciformi- v. fasciculari-dispositLe. liliachis imberbia. 

 Bractea^ floralcs 1-1^'" longa?, prjeter marginem albido-merabraneum 

 nitenti-fusca^, acutse v, tenui-acuminafas, cum calycibus glabra?. 

 Se[>ala circiter |"' longa ; exteriora an^usto-cymbea, acuta; in- 

 teriora vix breviora, cuneato- v. lanceolato-oblonga. Filamenta 

 perbrevia, Anthera3 supra basim affixa?^ circiter ^'" longa^. Pani- 

 culag feminge 1-4^' longre, contractie, ramis confertis compositae, 

 nuuc spicata^^ nunc breviter ramoStT3. Bracteae 1-1^'" longa?, ovatce, 

 pertenui-acuminatai v. aristulat^e. Sepala circiter ^"' longa ; ex- 

 ( teriora lanceolata, acuta ; interiora obtusiora et ha3C prajcipue 



margine barbellata. Stylus capillaris, stigmatibus couspicue bre- 

 vior, diu persistens. Stigmata 3 pertenuia, circiter §'" longa, sub- 

 tilissime papillosa. Carjopsis trigono-ovata, acutiuacula, ^'"longa. 

 Pericarpium splendenti-fuscum, tenuissime cartilagineum, hrvis- 

 simuui. Hasc planta statu validioi^e et quoad caulem ramosque 

 glauciore faciem Lepyrodia^ glaucse inoitatur ; nltima autem petiolis 

 pluribus quasi foliiseris, spiculis utriusque sexus unifloris confor- 

 mibus dispersis haud plurifloris amentaceis ct mutue dissimilibus, 

 antheris clongatione filamentorum exsertis jam facillime discri- 

 minanda est, prnsterea scilicet ad seriem ordinis capsuligcram nec 

 nuculigeram pertinet. 



Leptocarpus canus (Lindl. sec, Nees in Lehm, Pl. Preiss. ii. 

 64 ; Nees in Jardine's Annah vi. 50 ; L, ciliaris, Nees in Lehm. 

 Ph Preiss. ii, 64) repr^sentatur plantis Drummondi 946 et 947, 

 et a montibus Darliugii in viciniam sinus regis Georgii cxtendit. 

 Lepyrodiam Mnirii statu fcmino aemulatur. Caules 1-4' alti, 

 vsimplices, recti, cinerascentes, striolati, satis fistnlosi. Petioli arcte 

 clausi et amplexautes. aphylli, juventuto ad apicem teuere mem- 

 brauei. Paiiicula pedalis v. brevior, augusta, valde interrupta ; 

 mascula e spiculis in fasciculos fere umbellatos simplices v, parum 

 compositos collectis constaus. Pedunculi pertcnues, hixi, eano- 

 tomentelli, Spicula? 2-3''' longee, magna ex parte cernuai v. nutan- 

 tes, ambitu lato-ovata?, Bractcse pauciseriato-imbricata?, laxius- 

 cuhe, fere patute, 1— la" 'ongae, glabra^, lanceolato- v, ovato-cy mbe£e, 

 mutica3. Rbachilla glabra. Sepala 5 decoloria, transparentia, 

 angusto-lanceolata, acuta, glabra, vix semiliueam longa. Filamenta 

 3, antheris fere ter breviora. Antheric ellipsoidea^, muticae, prope 

 hasim dorsi affixa?, fore semilincam longa?, Pistillodium nullum. 



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Panicula femina fasciculos spicasque confertas spicularum longo 

 tractu ab aliis separatas gerens, nunquara eflfusas, tomento calycum 

 setate canescentes. Rhachilla barbata. Bracteae circiter lineam 

 longie, lanceolari-ovatse, mutic^, post calycis lapsum persistentes. 



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