Dmera,] XLiv. dkoserace^. • 459 



iug a promiacut erect bud. Scape filiform, | to 1 in. or rarely 2 in. high, 

 the slender, rather dense, one-sided raceme of minute flowers occupying some- 

 times nearly one-half of it, rarely short and few-flowered. Pedicels erect, 

 nearly as long as the calyx. Sepals nearly glabrous, not ^ line long when in 

 flower, and not much above ^ line when in fruit. Petals longer. Anthers 

 very small. Styles 3, filiform, rather Ihietcned and stigmatic on the inner 

 side towards the end. Capsule ovoid, Avith 3 valves and placentas and few 

 seeds. — D. micrantha, Lehm, Pugill. viii. 39; B. pijgmcea, Lehra. in PI. 



Preiss. i. 250, not of DC. ; D. minutiflora, Planch, ia Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, 

 ix. 286. 



W". Australia, King George's Souud, R, Brown ; sandy places near Perth, Preiss, 

 n. 1995 ; also Brummond, 



10. p. parvula, PlancL in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 287. A small 

 plant, evidently allied to i). paleacea, but probably distinct. We have, how- 

 ever, only the single specimen described by Planchon. Leaves and stipules 

 as m D, paleacea, and the stock covered with the remains of the old leaves 

 below the rosette, nearly 1 in. long, as in that species. Scape filiform, 1 in. 

 'ong, with a short loose raceme. Pedicels longer than the calyx. Sepals ra- 

 tlier more than ^ line long. Styles and placentas, according to Planchon, o 

 oi' sometimes 4. 



.. ^' Australia, Brummond. I have been unable to detach any flower for re-exaniina- 

 tioa, mthout destrojiDg the specimen. 



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Buriuaxini 



Leaves all radical, rosu- 



^^' JLP. xsunuanm, yafu ; DU^rroa. i. 5i^, jjeaves an raaicai, ro^u- 

 late, obovate-spathulate, about 3 or 4 lines diameter, narrowed into a petiole 

 ^ot so long. Stipules scarious, cut into narrow lobes, not so long as the pe- 

 f^ole. Scapes solitary or 2 or 3 from the same tuft, slender, attaining 5 o 6 

 ^' ^"^^ i'arely under 3 in. long, the upper portion occupied by a slender one- 

 sided raceme of several flowers. Pedicels short. Sepals glabrous, 1^ to 2 

 Ames long. Anthers small. Styles 5, undivided, filiform, not branched but 

 Jiglitly dihated and fringed towards the end.— Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 

 ^> IX. 190; Wight, let. 944. 



p^^'-'^^stralia. Regeut river, N.W. coast, A. Cunnhiglam; Upper Victoria river, 

 ^o^idence Hill, and M'Adam range, Nicholson river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F, 2IueUer. 



yueenslaud. Ejideavour river. Banks and Solander ; Brisbane rirer, F. Mueller, 

 ^';il^> C. Stuart. 

 iv!^ ^^^'^^'^^ ^^ ^^"^^'^ ^Wt^l over E. India and the Archipelago, extending to S. Chuia. 



^taout examining the styles, it is very diflBcuIt to distinguish it from B, spaihulata. 



le 



12 



/.I. A stein-f 



3 species, not very easy to distinguish from the coarser specimens of i>. 

 ^^^manni^ without examiuino- the styles. Leaves rosulate, obovate or spathu- 



i 



"°'0"s-spatlmlate and narrowed into a ratlier long petiole. Stipules sca- 

 ^tis cut into narrow lobes. Scapes usually 3 to 6 in. high, including the 

 '"•pie or rarely forked, 1-sided raceme. Pedicels short, glabrous as well as 



the 



- ciilyx or minutely glandnlar-pubeseeiit. Sepals about 1} lines long, often 

 J^^ed at the base. Petals pink red or white, as long as or rather exceeding 

 ^^ calyx. Anthers oblon>^-. Styles 3 or rarely 4, but divided to the base 



