Ihvsera.'] . XLiv, broserace^. 461 



tufted, with long silky or rusty liairs covering the persistent bases of the old 

 leaves and stipules. ' Leaves rosulate, orbicular or broadly obovate, rarely 

 above 2 lines diameter, on a rather broad petiole of i to 1 in. in the ordinary 

 form, the under side of the lamina and the petiole clothed with long silky 

 kirs. Stipules scarious, but not prominent. Scapes in the largest speci- 

 mens 1 ft. liigh but usually about half that, including the rather loose, often 

 lon^, 1-sided raceme, the calyx, pedicels, and rhachis more or less villous 

 with soft silky or velvety hairs. Pedicels rather shorter than the calyx, often 

 reflexed. Sepals above 1 line long in flower, 2 lines in fruit. Petals broad, 

 rather large. Anthers small. Styles 3, repeatedly dichotomous, the last 

 branches short and stlgmaiic—D./ulva, Planch, in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 

 289. 



N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Caipeutaria, R. Broicn, Seme; Goulliurn 

 Island, A. CunmngJiam ; Port Essington, Armstrong ; M'Adam range, F Mueller. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, R. Brown. Lauks s specimens 

 are remarkable for their petiole 1 to 2 in. long and less dilated, with a lamma of 1 to 2 lines 

 diameter, whieh induced Plauchon to consider them as belonging to a distinct species i but 

 R. i^rown's carefully-selected series of specimens show every gi'adation from the longest to 



the shortest petioles. . ,,„, -,,.,.• o ^ +;,„o= 



Plauchon describes the styles of this species as twice bifid ; I tind them_ 3 or 4 times 

 bifid. It is, however, exceedingly diiBcult to trace their ramifications from dried specimens. 

 h the hud they form a dense mass which requires great care m unfolding and aftei ilo^^a- 

 ingthey arc so mixed in the withered petals, that it almost impossible to eitract them whole 

 lie leaves are, as observed by Planchon G- «• 289. 290) not peltate, and the ^s^oc-ation of 

 the species with the very dissimilar D. Banksii into one section {LasiocephaluM),jvoi^o^za 

 by Planchon a..c.-94), and founded partly on this character, can scarcely be admitted. 



16. D. binata, Lablll. Fl Nov. Holl i. 78, t. 105. Stock small, ap- 

 pearing sometimes to emit creeping stolons. Leaves radical, on long petioles, 

 the lamina divided to the base into 2 long linear lobes, sometimes again once 

 «'■ twice forked, and often 2 or 3 in. long, elegantly fringed by he glan- 

 dular cilia of the genus, glabrous underneath as well as the petioles, ai- 

 Pules short, broad, brown and scarious, slightly jagged. Scapes exceeding 

 the leaves, often 1 to U ft. l"gl'> l^^aring a loose cyme ot large ^hte 

 flowers, consisting usually of 2 or 3 racemose branches rare y _i educed to a 

 ^hort simple raceme. Sepals about \ in. long. Petals tmce as Icn^. 

 Styles usu'ally 3, divided into numerous dichotomous ^f ^^' !,<;',: ^^^^^^^^^ 

 others longci-, davate or forked at the stigmatic end. fapside globuhu. 



eeds veiy numerous, small and linear.-DC Prod i. 319 j ^ot^^ag. t 

 f 82; Planch, in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 21)6; Hook, f- ^1- Jas^'^- fg ; 

 J^^Mnell. PI. Vict. i. 59 ; B. pedata, Pers. Syn. i. 337; DC. Piod. i. 3ia, 

 "■ dichotoma, Sm. in Rces' Cyclop, xii. 



^^- S. Wales. Port Jaeksoii; B- Bro.n, Sieier%^'t'^',Z'J'- ^'^'^ " '''' "' 



^'bors; Blue Mountains, M.ss Ailci«so. ; I"'^^y^^''».'^^^""SS' Promontory. Buffalo 

 Victoria. Wet boggy places, often growing m moss, uson j, 



f»»ge8, Grampians, etc., F. Mueller. , ,, „„ u,. .oast from Rocky Cape to Wool- 



Tasmania. Formosa, Z«!crd-nce; abundantly on the coasiHomi j i 



/^fea^'a"'" E^rin^X Tr/„VM.. T. M.elUr ,- ca...,c., .oa. Mount Wj. 



j."pS» i, „» i„ New Z..l»d. Th. Port «»X'Sli"S*'« ?rS 

 'Klolomon,, in tw s„„lhcra oncj thi-y are mere freq.icnll) ^ lolrni on.j , 



