ITihhertia.'] ii. DiLLENlACE.i;. 2 9 



obtuse, 2 to 4, or even 5 lines long, with tlie margins revolute, and often 

 slightly scabrous. Peduncles slender, | to 1 in. long, thickened under tlie 

 flowers. Sepals 3 to nearly 3 lines long, membranous, obtuse. Stamens 

 usually about 10. Carpels glabrous or downv, 2-ovuhate. — Pleurandra pe- 

 dnnculata, E. Br. in DC. Syst. Veg. i. 419. 



^^' Australia: South coast ?, Brummond^ «. IG, 9, 4 ; Lucky Bay, 7?. Brown ; King 

 George^s Sound and Gordon river, Oldfeld, 



27- H. acicularis, F, MiielL PL Fid. i. 17. Nearly or quite glabrous, 

 procumbent or diffuse, with a thick woody stock, and numerous branches, 

 short and intricate, or lengthened to a foot. Leaves narrow-linear, rigid, with 

 a stiff, often pungent point, about 3 to 6 lines long, the margins recurved. 

 Pedicels terminal or axillary, often on very short shoots, with a few leaves at 

 the base sometimes reduced to minute bracts, recurved, i to ^ in. long. 

 Sepals glabrous, or very slightly downy, about 2 lines long. Stamens usually 

 8, or fewer. Carpels downy, "^or rarely glabrous, with 2, or very rarely 4 



oyxxh^.^Plenrandra acicularis, Labill. PL Nov. HolL ii. 6, t. 144 ^ Hook, f. 

 PL Tasm. i. 15. 



Queensland, Moreton Island, Z Mueller, 



N, S. "Wales. Port Jackson, K Brown and others ; sterile bushy hills in TVellington 

 galley, and westward to Croker's range. A, Cunningham ; New England, C. Stuart, The Tort 

 Jackson specimens include a variety with more rigid leaves and larger flowers, and another 

 with glabrous ovaries. 



Victoria. Heathy ground, particularly in moist localities near the coast, F, Mueller. 

 Some Port Adelaide specimens are the only ones I have seen with 4 ovules to each carpel. 



Tasmania. Sandy laud at George Town, sea-coast E. of Port Dalrymple, and islauds 

 of Bass's Straits, J. D. Hooker, Gunn, 



Fleurandra triandra, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1854, ii. 280, described from a specimen 

 said to have been gathered by Gumi "near Sydney in Tasmania," may possibly belong 

 *o thij species, 



nucronata, BentK Erect and rigid, tlie young branches 

 shortly villous. Leaves crowded, erect, rigid, linear, and very pungent, 

 iiiostly 4 to 6 lines long, semiterete, but marked with a furrow on each side 

 of tlie midrib indicating the revolute margins, glabrous, or the young ones 

 bearmg a few spreading, silky hairs. Flowers sessile, the leaves of the very 

 snort floral shoots passing into 2 or 3 subulate bracts. Sepals 3 to 4 Imes 

 long, loosely villous, the outer ones with long pungent points, the inner ones 

 shorter and less pointed. Petals broadly 3-lobed. Stamens about 5. Carpels 



very villous, "iL^osyM.^. —Pleurandra mucronata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, 

 u. 139. 



W. Australia* Between Swan River and Cape Riche, Drummond, ^ih ColL ?2. 290; 

 ^iig George's Sound, 7J. Brown; "W. Mount Barren, Maxwell. 



F 



Section IY. Euhtbbeeti a. —Stamens usually numerous, and rarely 

 fewer than 12, arranged all arounJ the pistil, although sometimes more 

 numerous on one side than on the other, either without any stamuiodia or 

 ^"^th few or many small subulate or clavate staminotlia outside the perfect 

 ^^^^f^ns.—HMertla prober, as limited by De CaudoUe, and most authors. 



§ 1. Toraentosa.—Caxnch 2 (or very rarely and exceptionally 3), tomcri- 

 tose, or covered with peltate scales, with 2, or very rarely 1 or 3 ovules m 



^ species, 



28. K 



