StackhomlaJ] xxxv. sTACiaiousii:.!::. 409 



referrihie Drummond's specimens, n. 81, and R. Brown's and Cunuii.diam's from the N. 



coast. 



The distinction between tliis species and S. murieata, and the value of the cliaraeter 

 clcnved from the acute or obtuse corolla-lobes, requires further investigation on the living 



y. S. scoparia, Benth. Gla!)rous, erect, with inaucious stout, rigid, 

 broom-like, apparently leafless branches, 8 to 10 in. high in our specimens, 

 i^eaves all reduced to minute distant scales. Flowers small, solitary and dis- 

 tant along the ends of the branches, shortly pedicellate, with minute bracts. 

 Calyx-lobes narrow and acute. Corolla about 2^ lines long, with narrow 

 acuminate lobes about as long as the tube. Cocci not seen. 



TV. Australia. Between Swan River and King George's Sound, Dritmniond, 



10.^ S. Bninonis, BeutJu Glabrous. Stems erect, simple or branched, 

 attaining 1 to 2 ft. or even more. Leaves narrow-linear or ahnost terete, 

 usually free and small, except at the base of some of tlie stems, rarely more 

 generally scattered and attaining |^ to 1 in. Spikes sometimes short and 

 crowded, but more frequently elongated, with rather distant shortly pedicel- 

 Jate flowers. Bracts subulate, very variable in length. Calyx-lobes narrow- 

 uuear or acuminate. Corolla-tube slender, usually about 3 lines long, but 

 varymg from 2^ to 3^ lines; lobes narrow, acnminato, often almost subu- 

 late, as long as the tube or much sliorter. Cocci with 3 longitudinal 

 scarious wings, marked with transverse veins, the 2 marginal ones from 

 1 to 2 Hues broad, the dorsal one much narrower, but all remarkably variable 

 in width even on the same specimen. — Tripterococcus BruHonln, Endl. in 

 Hueg, Enum. 18 ; Scluich. in Linnfea, xxvi. 31 ; T. simplex, Bungc, in PL 

 J'reiss. i. 181 ; Schuch. 1. c. 35 ; T. junceus, Bunge, 1. c. 181 ; Schuch. 1. c. 

 ^7 ; T, hrachj^thjuia, Schuch. 1. c. 33. 



N. Australia. Regent river, N.W. coast, A. Canninyham. 



w. Australia. King George's Sound, 11, Brown, Fraser, and others, to Swan River 

 and Murchison river, Brummond, Oldjleld, and others; Treks, n. 1971 and 1973. 



Order XXXVI. EHAMNE.E. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, or rarely polygamous. Calyx campanu- 



*^te, urceolate, or cylindrical, the tube persistent and often adnate to the 

 pvaiy or disk ; lobes 4 or 5, valvate, usually with a raised longitudinal line 

 luside and deciduous. Petals 4 or 5, concave or hood-shaped, inserted at the 

 base of the calyx-lobes, alternating with and rarely exceeding them, or none, 

 stamens 4 or 5, alternating with the calyx-lobes, inserted with the petals and 

 opposite to them when present; fdaments short., filiform; anthers small, often 

 ^nch)sed in the petals, rarely oblong or exsertcd, l>isk rarely wanting, usually 

 "Ibng the calyx-tube or lining it, or annular round the ovary when inferior, 

 J'arely cup-shaped and free. Ovaiy sessile on tlie disk or immersed in it, or 

 ^pxQ or less inferior, 3-celled, or rarely 2- or 4-celled; style short, entire, 

 ^th as many lobes or branches as ovarv-cells; stigmas terminal, capitate 

 ^lub-sl^apid. Ovules solitary in each cell, erect, anatropous, with a dorsal or 

 ^^J^-ely lateral raphe. Frnit a drupe or capsule, the border of the adnate base 

 ^f the calyx forminij a rin^- at the base or round the fruit or at the sununit ; 



or 

 or 



