^gg XLiv. DROSEUACEiE. [Droma. 



d.i». Stjles 3. repo.tedly dichoto,„„us. with *ort atoost clavate .,a„d.s, 

 shortly sti^matic at the end.— Lehra. m PI. Piciss. i. ^06 



rS;f ^l^^'L'ui:;™ ?i;i«H.o,ers .. P,™,-s specif.,. 



Bulbous, with a slender 



( .A. -^ /I 



diameter, flat or slightly concave. Flowers often large bnt vmu ^ 



in a loosi. cyme, but not A^««i'%.]»^7^°"^,;f%^lP^;^eaSuy branched, 

 lines long, fringed at the end with long cilm. Stile, lepejxteay ^^^^^ 

 the ultimate branches extremely numerous and slender, but snon, 



liuear.— Lehm, in PL Preiss. i. 254. 



;.,; De»i- GuMforf, frm., ». WS2; bct«™, Moore and Mmchlson river 



6(4 CoB. «. lOS i Kojomip .nd Cape And, *•'•"«• , ,i„,etcrs the sai»e.-S- 



y5'.™s.__if!f ."^ i»"'^:,"2;^"T ' -MltS™™* »d in B.r,rf. 



jr««/«V/^//rf, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat ser. S, ix, d^-^- 



collections. 



Menziesii 



Bulbous, with a slen- 



ofla- 



der rootstock. Leafy stem slender, erect A^f ;°^« °J, ^ ^ ; Tr^^^^^- 

 bvous or nearly SQ. Lower leaves few, reduced to small _s\e» dei,ff ;'^, ' ^.^^,, 



Flowers rather 



urous or ueauj, ay. o-ivv^i --"'-- ■"■>.--" lu, c^nnll Flowers raiuci 



leaves on slender petioles, peltate, orljicular, ^^^3«^ly.'^"f^', .1,' raceme very, 

 large, pink or red' in the original form, f ^ m a shox-t implej^^ ^ 



ran^ly once-branched. Sepals 2 to 3 lines 1«"|.- P^^^^f ^^f." ^ did Styles 

 rarely nearly glabrous, more or less cili.te. -^J ^f ^^^^f . 3^. s'eds 

 repeatedly divided into very numerous slender dichotomou? brandies. 



King George's SpunJ and adjoining districts, Jf^^^^V^. ^ ^"""'''^' 



ham, hnmrnond, 2nd Qoll. n. 5 niid others ^ gc. Nat, ser. 3, 



Var. ilavescem, Ilowcrs palc-ycllow.— i). mtncata, i-lancn. in 



linear. 



Var. favescens, 



ix. 293. 



"W, Australi 



Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 294; F. Muell. Fl. Vict. i. 62. 



Victoria. In many localities towarJs the Murray, y. ^^'Il'^^jr^.^ ^. ^ ^ 



Tasmania. N, coast, Rocky Cape, George Town ^ ->;^, ^^^'^^^ as Bndets 

 S. Australia. Throughout the greater part of the colony as 



Eanges, T. Mueller. 

 I can see no 



difference whatever tetween the three varieties except the c^^^^^.^^-^^ altho^gl' 

 The styles of the white variety are precisely the same as in *"" "";,^- 

 different from those of B. fiUcaulk, which had been confounded witli i • ^^_^^^^^^ 



■39. D. calycina, Flanch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser 3, i^' .^" gbbrous- 

 ^vith a slender rootstock. Leafy stem usually erect «"^ skn^^^ '^^ ^j^^jer 

 Lower leaves few, reduced to small slender scales; ^tem-^ ^^^^ ^^ one 

 petioles, peltate orbicular or rarely slightly truncate ^^J o ee- 



side. Flowers apparently red or white, few m loose s^np^e o^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^er 

 forked racemes. Sepals herbaceous, thin, vcrj' o'^*^'!,^' f, '° „,!]. scarcely e^" 

 flowering, entire or scarcely denticulate, glabrous, i-ewis 



