106 NEW SPECIES OF WEST AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 



H. TURBINATA. 



Xerotes furbinafa, EndL, PL Preiss. ii. 51; Benth., Fl. Aust. vii 

 107. 



Forming tufts 6 inches or more across. Leaves rigid, striate, 

 terete, tapering into an almost pungent point, straight or slightly 

 twisted, 6-12 inches long, the outer ones reduced to numerous 

 sheathing scales with scarious woolly-ciliate margins, when old 

 splitting into numerous filaments. Scapes rather stout, bracteate 

 from above the middle, 1-2 J inches high, with a turbinate or 

 ovoid head of flowers attaining with the bracts a diameter of i-| 

 inch. Bracts loosely imbricated, ultimately forming an involucre 

 round the head, the lowest about 1 inch long, the others varying 

 to I inch, brown, lanceolate-acute, with scarious woolly-ciliate 

 margins. Flowers pale yellow, several within each head, on 

 filiform pedicels of |-| line long, the outer (hermaphrodite) ones 

 subtended by a small scarious bract, the whole surrounded by 

 white wooll}^ hairs almost concealing the flower, the inner (neuter) 

 ebracteate, the subtending hairs numerous. Perianth about 2 lines 

 long, divided J of its length into 6 subulate nerveless segments, 

 the inner broader than the outer ; tube narrow-turbinate. 

 Filaments extremely short. Capsule pale green, smooth or 

 slightly transversely streaked, trigonous-ovate, acute, 2 lines long, 

 readily dehiscent. Seeds ovate, about h line long. 



Log. — Swan River District; in sandy or heathy spots, flower- 

 ing during December (Drummond, Preiss, and others). 



AMARYLLIDE.a:. 



CoxosTYLis Harperiana, sp.nov. 



Stems short, densely tufted. Leaves not distichous, with short 

 sheathing bases, glabrous, striate, rigid, with entire or finely 

 serrulate margins, IJ lines broad, mostly under a foot in length. 

 Scapes, including the inflorescence, 12-1.5 inches long, slightly 

 tomentose, bearing 2-3 thin lanceolate-acuminate bracts of 1-H 

 inches long. Flowers golden yellow, numerous, in loosely branched 

 bifurcated cymes, with usually a single pedicellate flower or small 



