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14(5 XIV. POLYGALEiE. [Comespema. 



rather sliorter, tKe keel not liorned. Capsule usually about 5 lines long, 

 cuiarginate, with rounded lobes, and about 1-^ lines broad at the top, uar- 

 rowed into a stipes much longer than the broad part. Seeds comose, with- 

 out any membranous appendage.— DC. Prod. i. 334 \ Hook. f. Fl. Tasiu. i. 

 32; F. Muell. PI. Yict. i. 190, 



Queensland, ^Toreton Islnnd, F. Mueller. 



^, S, "Vi^ales, Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieher, n, 365 ; Blue MoaiitaiiiS and to the 

 southward, A. Cunningham ; New England, C. Stuart, 



Victoria. Abundant in the sphagnum moors and along the rivulets and torrents of the 

 Australian Alps at an elevation of 4000 to COOO ft., F. Mueller. 



Tasmania^ R. Brown ; abundant, especially in the northern parts of the island, from 



the sea to an elevation of 3600 ft. in the Western Mountaias, J. J). Hooker, 



11. C. sylvestre, Lindl. in Mitch, Trop. Affstr. 343. A glabrous and 

 erect shrub of several feet, resembling C, retumm^ with which F. Mueller pro- 

 poses to unite it, but much more glaucous. Leaves larger, often f in. long 

 and sometimes 3 lines broad, mucroaate oi* pungent, often concave above. 

 Flowers rather larger, with broader outer sepals. Capsule about \ in. long. 

 — F. Muell. Fragm. i. 49. 



Queensland. Open forest, near Mounts Faraday and Vlxiio, Mitchell ; sandy forest 

 table-land on the Suttor river, F. Mueller. 



■ 12 ? C. acerosum, Sleetz, in Fl. Preiss. ii. 299. Glabrous, rigifl, erect, 

 and little branched from a hard, almost woody base, 1 to 1 ^ ft. high. Leaves 

 linear, erect, rigid, with a short usnally pungent point, not above j in. long, 

 strongly keeled. Racemes rather dense, 1 to 2 in. long, pedicels 1 to 1|- lines. 

 Outer sepals 3, nearly equal, all free, very broad and obtuse, not 1 line long; 

 inner petaloid sepals obovate, about 3 lines. Keel-petal with a horn-like ap- 

 pendage on the back as in C. mrgati^m.. Capsule about 3 lines long, truncate 

 or slightly 3-toothed at the top, narrowed into a stipes about as long as the 

 broad part. Seeds comose, with a very short membrane at the chalazal end. 



W. Australia. Swan Hiver, Drummond, n. 431, and Coll. ]St3, n. 492, mixed with 

 C virgatum, which this species closely resembles in almost all characters excepting the 

 outer sepals, which are all free. 



13. C. ericinum, BC. Prod, i. 334. Glabrous or minutely pubescent, 

 usually erect, with rigid branches 1 to 2 or even 3 ft. high, woody at the base. 

 Leaves linear, erect or spreading, crowded or rather distant, obtuse or acute, 

 rarely above \ in. long and usually shorter, the margins recurved or more fre- 

 quently cpiite revolute. Eacemes usually several and short in a leafy panicle, 

 but longer and less dense than in C. retusum, rarely slender, and lengthening 

 out to 3 or 4 in. Outer sepals all free, ovate or ovate4auceolate, f to 1 Hue 

 long; inner sepals about 3 lines. Keel-petal not horned. Capsule 3 to 4 

 lines long, truncate, with rounded angles or entirely rounded at the top, nar- 

 rowed into a stipes usually longer than the brond part. Seeds oblong, 

 comose, with a very small membrane at the lower or clialazal end.— Hook. f. 

 FL Tasm. i. 32; F. Muell. PI. Vict. i. 190; C. corldi/uUum, A. Cunn. in 

 Field. N. S. Wales, 337 ; C. lalifoUnni, Stectz, in PI. Preiss. ii. 295 ; C aculi- 

 folium, Steetz, 1. c. 296; C, linari^folhm, A. Cmm. in Steetz, I.e. 297- 



Queensland, Moreton Bay, J. Cunningham; Glasshouses and Burnett ranges, 

 F, Mueller. 



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