SCHELHAMMERA MULTIFLORA 
Br. Prodr. 274 (1810); Benth. Fl. Austral vii. 32; 
Bailey, Queensland F., 1642. 
[PiaTe 308.] 
Calyx nullus. Peéa/a sex, nivea, ovato-oblonga, acuta, concava, 
patula, trilinearia, basi breviter unguiculata, unguibus erectis, circa 
basin filamentorum involutis. /%/amenta sex, receptaculo  inserta, 
alba, erectiuscula, petalis 4 breviora, subulata. Axthere oblonge, 
erecte, intus purpurascentes, extus albide. Germen superum, 
subrotundum, sexsulcatum. Sty/us filiformis, erectus, albus, longitu- 
dine filamentorum, trifidus. S¢égmata simplicia, subulata.. Capsula 
subrotunda, triloba; lobi duabus tribusve carinis instructi, carinis 
crenato-denticulatis ; capsula trilocularis. Semzina circiter tria, magna, 
CHLAMYSPORUM 
subrotunda, angulata. Tota planta glabra. Caw/is e lateribus 
foliorum acute angulatus, erectus, inter folia flexuosus. //ra alterna, 
sessilia, adversa, ovato-elliptica, acuta, leviter multinervia, vix triun- 
cialia, saturate viridia, inferiora reflexo-patentia, superiora patula, 
Pedunculi terminales, umbellati, circiter octo, uniflori, uncinales, 
striati, floriferi erecti, fructigeri reflexi. Zacce porcate, triloculares, 
Semina tria v. quattuor, magna. 
Endeavour’s River. Established by Brown upon Banks’s specimens. 
BANKSII 
TuHYSANOTUS BANKSII Br. Prodr. 283 (1810). 
[PLaTE 309.] 
Calyx nullus. Petala sex, patentia, persistentia, vix semuncialia 
pallide purpurea; linea dorsali virescenti; tria exteriora lanceolata, 
acuta, integerrima; tria interiora ovata, plana, margine undique 
fimbriato-ciliata, villis numerosissimis, corolla concoloribus, quam 
petalis dimidio brevioribus. Filamenta sex, receptaculo inserta, 
filiformia, petalis triplo breviora, tota glabra, declinata, flavicantia, 
tria alterna apice incurvata. 
parum contorte ; 
filamentorum 
Anthere \utescentes, superne attenuate, 
filamentorum rectiorum oblongz, erectiusculze ; 
incurvatorum decumbentes. 
Germen superum, subrotundum. 
albidus, 
Capsula ovalis, obtusa, longitudine petalorum, trivalvis, trilocularis. 
Semina  nonnulla, compressa, nigra, glabra, 
Scapus teres glaber, sesquipedalis, 
longiores, _ rostratz, 
Stylus filiformis, glaber, declinatus, 
staminum. acutiusculum. 
longitudine Stigma simplex, 
subrotunda,  intus 
magnitudine seminis sinapeos. 
erectus, crassitie penna passerine. Peduncuti plures, fasciculati, 
infra medium geniculati, teretes, glabri, inaequales, longiores unciales, 
Radix bulboso-tuberosa, tuberibus oblongis, crassitie penne olorinz, 
pluribus albidis, fasciculatis.  /o/¢a teretia, scapo longiora, medulla 
spongiosa repleta. 
Endeavour’s River. Bentham, perhaps correctly, combines this and other 
of Brown’s species with Z. tuberosum Br. (C. tuberosum O. Kuntze), of which 
he considers 7. Banksii “a rather slender form, frequent in Queensland, with a 
rather loose pyramidal panicle” (Fl. Austral. vii. 43); and in this he has. been 
followed by subsequent authors. Baker (Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 336 (1876)) places 
T. Banksii under ‘ZT. Baueri Br., but, according to Bentham, incorrectly. Z. Banksti 
was founded by Brown on the plant collected by Banks, which he only knew from 
the dried specimens in the National Herbarium; I retain the trivial name, which 
undoubtedly belongs to this plant, as further knowledge may result in its being 
maintained as a distinct species. 
Philydracee 
LANUGINOSUM 
Banks ex Gaertn. Fruct. i. 72 (1788) Br. Prodr. 265; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 74; Batley, Queensland FL, 1646. 
[PLaTE 310.] 
PHILYDRUM 
Radix crassa, brevis, obliqua, subpreemorsa, undique exserens 
fibras albas, 
subfasiculatas. 
mattas longas, filiformes, crassiusculas, simplices, 
folia radicatia plurima, linearia acuminata, cras- 
siuscula, interne celluloso-cavernosa, compressa, subancipitia, margine 
exteriore obtusiusculo, glabra, 
Folia caulina pauca, spicis subjecta, 
Caulis erectus, tripedalis, teres, laevis sed 
Spice pauce, 
Raches teretes, lanuginosz ; inferiores 
subdistichi. 
pro flore continendo  ventricose, 
uniflora, vix longe. Calyx nullus. 
interiore acuto; basi equitantia, 
erecta; caule parum_ breviora. 
brevia, basi vaginantia. 
lanugine tenui obductus, simplex. erect, alterna, 
remote, circiter spithamales. 
basi alterni, Bractee ovato- 
nude. lores remoti, 
oblonga, acuminate, concave, 
erectee, lanuginosze, unciam 
Corol/a tetrapetala flava, marcescens ; 
erectum, semunciale, 
petalum supremum ovatum, 
acutum, secundum medium planum_ ibique 
extus villosiusculum, marginibus tenuibus utrinque glabris, introrsum 
repando-plicatis; petalum infimum supremo simillimum sed paulo 
brevius, patentissimum ; petala lateralia lanceolata, acuta, planiuscula, 
utrinque glabra, erecta, reliquis fere duplo breviora. v/amentum 
unicum, basi petali infimi insertum, subulatum, planum, latiusculum, 
adscendens,* longitudine petalorum lateralium, flavicans. Amthera 
transversa, biloba; obi ovati subspirales. Germen  superum, 
oblongum, villosum. Séy/ws filiformis, crassiusculus, longitudine 
filamenti, sub. petalo supremo inclinans, flavescens. Stigma 
incrassatum, supra planum. Capsula oblonga, obsolete  triquetra, 
villosiuscula, trilocularis, trivalvis. | Sevzzza numerosa, oblonga, 
rugosa, apice appendiculata ; 
recentibus _ pellucido). 
secundum medium 
appendice subrotundo (in seminibus 
Conceptacula longitudinalia, e dissepimento 
incrassatis. Habitat in paludosis et juxta fontes 
Nove Cambrie prope Endeavour’s River. 
Gaertner's description of the genus is taken from Solander’s MSS. Not mentioned 
by Brown as collected by Banks. 
Comme\linacee 
CARTONEMA 
SPICATUM var. HUMILIS 
Br. Prodr. 271 (1810); Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 91; Bailey, Queensland Fl., 1657 quoad sp.). 
C. spICATUM (3. HUMILE Hassk, in Flora xxvii. 365 (1869); C. B. Clarke, Commelinacez (DC. Mon. Phan. iii.) 263 (1881) (humilts), 
[Rraress tire] 
Calyx triphyllus ; foliola oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, erecto- 
patula, persistentia, 4-linearia. Pe¢ada tria, lutea, ovata, acutiuscula, 
calyce parum longiora. /%/amenta sex, receptaculo inserta, filiformia, 
petalis triplo breviora, flava, versus alterum latus inclinata, Anthere 
ovate-oblonge, erectze, approximate, lute. Germen superum, subro- 
tundum, triquetrum. Sty/us filiformis, rectus, a staminibus sursum 
Stigma albidum, trifidum, laciniis 
Capsula ovalis, 
divaricatus, eorumque longitudine. 
parvis, duabus approximatis, tertia paulo longiore. 
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obtuse trigona, calyce brevior, trilocularis, trivalvis. 
Semtna bina, 
oblonga. dia canaliculata, subulata, villosiuscula. 
Caults teres. 
Endeavour’s River. Not mentioned by Bentham or Bailey as collected by 
Banks. The difference between this variety and the type seems mainly one of habit, but 
if the variety be maintained, Banks’s plant comes under it ; Bentham does not refer to it. 
T he citation in Fl. Austral. (1. c.),  C. spicatum R. Br. Prodr., 271, partly,” is somewhat 
misleading ; Brown has indicated clearly on his ticket the type of his ener which 
is the tall plant accepted as such by authors. 
