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procurrens, latere inferiore fibrillas longas flexuosas filiformes 



ugcns. Folia pr^ecrassa. 



Xerotes longifolia (R. Br. Pr. 262 ; Bot. Reg. xxv. tab. 3 ; 

 Kuntb. Ennm. iii. 374) a sinu Rivoli-Bay (F. M. anno 1848) ad 

 oras Rockingham's Bay (Dallaehy) et originem flTivii Burdekin's 

 Tviver (F. M. anno 1856, conf. Proceed. Linn. Soc. ii. 150) vergit. 

 Limltes ^extremos Lactenns notavi : Ncsvcastle Range (F. M.), 

 DarUug's River ct Barcoo (Ncilson), Springsure (Wutb), Fitzroy's 

 Island (Walter), Mount Elliot (Fitzalan), Darling's Downs (Lau) ; 

 totam quoque Tasmaniam et alpes Australire saltem ad altitudinem 

 5000 pedum ingreditur. Folia magnitndine et crassitie varia, 

 nonmmquam 6' longa, interdum apice rotundato-obtusa et edentata. 

 Panicula 2"-2' longa, pedunculo generali nunc prcelongo nunc 

 perbrevi pra^dita, interdum verticillari-spicata, interdum expansis- 

 sima. ■ Bractese gencrales lon.^ritudinc admodum variantes. Sepala 

 intcriora lutea ; exteriora apicem versus sacpe fuscata v. passim 

 nigrita. Antherce fertiles flavje, ovatse, circiter ^'" longtB. Se- 

 naina elUpsoidea, cinereo-livida, circn 2^" longa. Aborigines foUa 

 tenacissima faciendis corbibus adhibcnt. Ad eandem generis 

 sectionem nisi ad eandem speciem X. montaua, X. fluviatilis, X. 

 Hystrix, X, arenaria et X, denticulata, quce in Schnitzleinii Icono- 

 graphia FamiUarum Regni Veg. delineata, (R. Br. 261-262) tra- 

 huntur. 



Icon X. rigidse apud Loddiges (Cabinet, 798) forsan ad X. longi- 

 foUam pertinet. 



XeTotes hastilis (R, Br. Pr. 263) a montibus StirUng*s Range 

 ad sinum Great Bight sparse extendit. Facie Xanthorrhoeam 

 minorem semulatur. Folia radicaUa rigida, plana, longitudinem 

 4 pedum attinentia, 2-4'" lata, margine scabra, apice integerrima, 

 Pedunculus usque ad 5' longus. Spica |-1-^' longa. Scpala in- 

 teriora forsan purpurascentia. Capsula laivis. Drummond, 33L 



Xerotes lettcocephala (R. Br. Pr. 260 ; X. fihimentosa, Brogn. 

 Voy. de la Coquille, t. 35; Sond, in Linnoea, xxviii- 218 ; X. 

 typhina, LindL in Mitch. Three Exped. ii. 41) mihi nota est a 

 Streaky-Bay et Lake Gairdner (Babbage), Spencer's Gulf, St. 

 Vincent's Gulf, Lake Alexandrina, Guichen'sBay, Murray's River, 

 DarUng's River (F. M.), Wimmera (Morton), Lachlan (MitcheU), 

 Murrumbidgee (XoLan), Mudgee (WooUs), New England (Leich- 

 hardt), Severn (Hartmann), Darling's Downs (Lau), Mount Owen 

 (MitcheU), CurrewiUughi (Dalton), Balonne (Moore). FoUa ^-2'" 

 lata. Capitula singulavel 2-6 superposita, nonnunquam in cyUn- 

 drum 5" longmn extensa. Pedunculus generaUs 2"-2' longus. 

 Sepala exteriora alba, membranca ; interiora ochroleuca, obtusa, 

 Capsula lasvis. Semina ovata, circitcr 2'" longa, 



Xerotes jnncea (F. M. in Transact. Vict. Inst. 1855, p. 135) 

 adhuc tuntummodo in pLagis ad partem austro-occidentalem sinus 

 Spenceri sitis reperta est. Rhizoma sat crassum, procurrens. 



