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is Spiculcsa ciliata,'^'^* whose rusty flowers when spread open 

 may be compared to long-legged spiders, the lip with a long 

 solid lamina looking like their body, while an appendage at 

 its apex, which is apparently moveable, will not be unlike 

 the head of such a creature. 



Miscellaneous Endogens. 



Of Endogenous plants not included in the two preceding 

 natural orders the number is either inconsiderable, or the 

 supplies sent home have been very deficient ; and, with such 

 exceptions as are about to be named, they are of little inte- 

 rest. A Xanthorhcea is spoken of by Frazer, but I have seen 

 no specimens of it. The form most characteristic of the 

 Colony is Laxmannia^^^'^ a genus of small heath-leaved shrubs, 

 with capitate white membranous flowers, usually collected in 

 heads upon the end of leafless scapes ; of one of these curious, 

 and rather pretty plants, there is a figure at Plate VII. A ; 

 some others"^'^'^ also occur, but they are of no beauty. Two 



utrinque auriculata. Anlhera terminalis, persistens, loculis approximatis. 

 Rostellum Qvatum, acmniiiatum, convexum. 

 Yixdk^VL elastica. (Fig. 3.) Radices lanatae, apice bulbosse. Folium radicale 

 coriaceum, subrotundum, cordatum. Scapus erectus pedalis, glaber, 

 squamula infra medium solitaria, uniflorus. Labellum basi tuberculatum, 

 crinitum, angustatum, utrinque dente retrorso auctum. 



(264) Spicul^a (Arethusese). Sepala et petala linearia, conformia, patentia. 

 Labelli unguis elongatus, teres, inarticulatus ; lamina linearis, peltata, apice 

 appendice mobili aucta. Columna elongata, arcuata, infra medium semi- 

 teres, marginata ; superius alata : alls marginantibus, basi liberis falcatis, 

 apice circa antheram in cucuUum breve quadrilobum confluentibus : lobis 

 lateralibus longioribus. Anthera terminalis, persistens, loculis approximatis. 

 Stigma meniscoideum. 



Spiculsea eiliata. (Fig. 4.) Herba spithamsea, glabra, verosimiliter fusca. 

 Folium radicale coriaceum, cordatum, acuminatum. Scapus medio uni- 

 squamatus. Racemus multiflorus, 2-3 poll, longus. Sepala filiformia, 

 spathulata ; petala etiam angustiora, baud apice dilatata, 5 lin, longa. 

 Labelli lamina carnosa, supra medium affixa, basi angustata ciliata retusa ; 

 appendice apicis ovali membranacea. 



(265) Laxmanmia grandifloru (Tab. VILA); foliis erectis apice spinosis scape 

 multo brevioribus, capitulis multifloris basi obtusis. 



(266) Laxmannia squarrosa ; foliis squarroso-recurvis apice setiferis scapo multo 

 brevioribus, capitulis paucifloris basi acutis. 



(^''''^ Laxmannia sessilis ; foliis squarroso-recurvis apice piliferis, capitulis sessi- 



libus foliis brevioribus. 

 (238) Laxmannia ramosa; caule nitido ramoso apicibus tantum folioso, foliis 



erectis pungentibus scaporum longitudine, capitulis paucifloris sphaericis basi 



intrusis. 



