406 XXXV. STACKHorsiE.'E. [_StacJcJioima, 



lobes, a little sliortcr than the tube. Anthers glabrous. Cocci rather large 

 in proportion to the plants smooth or obscurely reticulate. — Hook. f. FL Tasm. 



ii. 351). 



Victoria. Summits of the higher mountains of Gipps' Land, at au elevation of GOOO 



to 7000 ft., F, Mueller, 



Tasmania. Western mountains, Archer. 



S. tni?2ma, Hook, f., from New Zealand, differs very slightly in the acute lohcs of the 



corolla and puLescciit anthers. 



2. S. spathulata^ Sieb. in Spreiig, Syd. Cur. FosL i24._ Glabrous, 

 •nsnally much branched at the base, with stout decumbent or ascending 

 branches of about ^ ft., but sometimes lengthening to 1 ft. or more. Leaves 

 fi'om obovate to oblong, usually vciy obtuse, rather thick, and ^ to f in. long, 

 but in luxuriant stems lengthening out to 1 in. or more and almost acute. 

 Spikes dense, with the flowers almost of S. monogyna. Corolla-tube 3 to 4 

 lines long, lobes much shorter, oblong, obtuse. Cocci fully 2 lines long, 

 with 3 prominent vertical acute angles or narrow wdngs. — P. IMuell. Fragm. 

 iih 86; 8, maculata, Sieb. in Hook. Jouni. Bot. ii. 421 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 

 i. 79 (the name originating in a clerical error in Siebcr's label) ; TripterQ- 

 coccus sipathiilalus, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Jom-n. viii, 208; Schuch. in 

 Linna^a, xxvi. 20 ; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 86 ; ^S', monogyna, Labill. PL Nov. 

 Hell. i. 77, t. 104 (as to the fruit), 



Queensland. Sandy Cape, Hervey Bay, 7?. Broicu; Moretou Island, UrGilUvray, F. 



Mueller, 



N. S. "^Vales. Southward of Eotany Bay, R. Brow?i; Port Jackson, Sieber, n. 24C, 

 and others ; frequent on the seashore, J. Cunningham ; and on all the grass-lands of the 

 Ulterior, Fraser (hut probably confounded with S. 7nonoffj/na) ; Hnstiugs river, Beckler. 



Victoria-' Seacoast, AVilson's Promontory, Portland Bay, etc., F. Mueller. 



Tasmania. Islands of Bass's Straits, Gunn, Bynoe, A spccimeu not in fruit from 

 Recherehe Bay, C. Stuart/\^ also probably the same. 



S. Australia. Mouth of tbe Glenelg and llivoli Bay, AUlU. 



Nov 



Gla- 



brous, with a perennial base, and erect, simple or slightly branched, stout or 

 slender stems, usually 1 to 1^ ft., but sometimes twice that height. Leaves 

 linear or lanceolate, acute or obtuse, crowded or few and distant, usually i to 

 1 in, long, or when very luxuriant 2 in. Eaccmes at first dense, but often 

 lengthening out to 4 or 5 in., the lower bracts sometimes leaf-like, passing 

 mto the ver}^ small lanceolate upper ones, and often all very small. Calyx- 

 lobes naiTow. Corolla-tube 3 to 4 lines long ; lobes much shorter, oblong, 

 obtuse. Cocci obovoid, prominently reticulate, not angled. — Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1917; Hook. f. PI. Tasm. i. 79; S. obtusa, Lindl. in Bot. Ecg., under n. 

 1917 ; S. UnaricefoUa, A. Cunn. fn Field. N. S. Wales, 356 ; F. Muell. Fragm. 

 iii. 87 ; S, Gmmii, Hook. f. Pi. Tasm. i. 79; Schlccht. Linnrca, xx. 642; S. 

 aspericocca, Schuch. in Lirnuea, xxvi. 12 ; ^. Muelleii, Schuch. I.e. 16; S. 

 Gunniana, Schlccht. in Schuch. 1. c. 18. 



Queensland- Krppel Bay, Broad Sounds R,Broicu; Port Curiis, iF Gil livray ; 'Oayr- 

 6on and Bowcn rivers, F. 3Iueller, 



M. S. "Wales. Ilichmond and Grose river, K Brazen; Blue Mountains, and plaius 

 and country about Batburst, also southward of Port Jackson, J. Cunningham and others; 

 Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 



