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408 XXXV. STACKUOUSiEiE. [Stackhoitsia, 



often ^ line long. Bracts very short, broad and obtuse. Calyx small, with 

 ovate lobes. Corolla about 3 lines long, with oblong-lanceolate, rather acute 

 lobes. Cocci not seen. — Hook. f. PI. Tasm. i. 80* Scliuch. in Linncea, 

 xxvi. 26. 



Tasmania. Woolnorth, in poor sandy soil, Gunn, 



VIT. Australia. Flinders Bay, Collie (with the spilce rather more elongated). 



ixiuricata 



Glabrous. Stems 



slender, simple or branched, often above 1^ ft. long. Leaves narrow-linear, 

 sometimes almost filiform, -^ to 1^ in. long. Spikes long, very slender, with 

 distant clusters of 2, 3, or more small flowers, usually under 3 lines and some- 

 times not 2 lines long. Calyx-lobes small, obtuse. Corolla-lobes narrow but 

 obtuse, sometimes as long as the tube, sometimes not half so long. Cocci 

 strongly reticulate, sometimes ahnost muricate. — Schuch. in Linnsea, xxvi. 25. 



N. Australia. Start's Creek, F. Mueller. 



Queensland. Vovi 'Ei^sAn^ion, Jrm strong ; Port Curtis and Dunk Island, M'Gilli' 

 vray ; Briiralow scrub in the interior, Mitchell ; Peak Downs, l\ Mueller, 



N. S.Wales. St. George's river, B. Brown; Peel's Range on the Lachlan, A, Cun- 

 ningham. 



This species, which we have also from the Philippine Islands.. varies considerably and 

 sometimes a]r])roaches S, viminea, but the leaves arc never so broad, and the corolla-lobes 

 obtuse. The Stnrt's Creek specimens belong to a more branched and compact form^ with 

 very small flowers more frequently solitary, and the leaves few, small, and distant. Some 

 smaller specimens, like those from the Philippine Islands, are less branched and perhaps 

 sometimes annual. 



8. S. vimineay Sm., in Tides' CycL xxxiii. Glabrous. Stems erect or 

 ascending, slender, often 1 to 1^ ft. high.- Leaves on the barren shoots often 

 rather broad, oblong, obtuse, -^ to 1 in. long, narrowed at the base, on the 

 flowering-stems fewer, often small and narrow-linear, and sometimes scarcely 

 any. Spike slender, elongated, with distant clusters of small flowers, some- 

 times numerous in the clusters, sometimes solitary or nearly so. Calyx small, 

 with acute lobes. Corolla rarely exceeding 3 Hues and often not above 2 

 lines long, slender, with nan'ow acuminate or acute lobes. Cocci smallj 

 strongly reticidate or muricate. — Schuch. in Linnsea, xxvi. 22; S. nuday 

 Lindl. in Bot. Reg, under n. 1917; Schuch. 1, c. 22 ; S. monogyna, Sieb. H- 

 Exs. ; S, dorypetala, Schuch. L c. 24. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Bay of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Goulbui-u Island, ^- 



Ctifinlvyhmn, 



Queensland. "Warwick, Beclder. 



N. S. "Wales. Port Jackson and to the southward, U. Brown, A. Cunningham, Sieler, 

 n, 245 and 51)1, and others; Blue Mountains, Miss Atldnson ; New England, C. Stuart; 

 Miicleay and Clarence rivers, Beckler, 



W.Australia. Swnn River, Dnnz/w^wrtT, «. 02; Phillips river. Maxwell; between 

 Moore and Murohison rivers, Brummond, n, 81. 



Var. elala. Branches nunnrous and more erect, attaining 5 ft. according to jMjlxwcII, 

 but several of Drurnmond's arc nnder 1 ft.; leaves all narrow; the whole plant drying more 

 yellow than usual in the eastern variety, although some specimens of the latter are also ^<^^' 

 \Qyi,—S.elafa,'F, JIulII. Pragni. iii. 86. To this variety belong Maxwell's specimens 

 above mentioned and Druinnioud's n. 92. A few Port Jackson ones can scarcely be dis- 

 tingnished from them. 



Var. wicrantha. Small, slender, and much-branched; flowers small, as in S. wnricata, 

 but the acuminate lobes as well as the narrow leavxs are those of S, viminea, — To this are 



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