Funcaginee 
TRIGLOCHIN PROCERUM 
Br. Prodr. 343 (1810); Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 168 ; 
Bailey, Queensland Flora, 1706. 
[PiaTE 316.] 
Calyx hexaphyllus ; foliola ovato-oblonga, concava, apice inflexa, 
subcarnosa, lineam unam longa, tria exteriora paulo majora, Corolla 
nulla. Anthere sex, sessiles, receptaculo insertz, 
intra petala recondite, magne, ovate, didyme, lobis longitudin- 
Fiulamenta nulla. 
aliter stria profunda dorsali exaratis. Ons. Foliola calycina interiora 
paulo altius in receptaculo collocata, ita etiam anthere interiores. 
Germina sex, supera, lineari-oblonga, compressa, glabra, erecta, 
desinentia in S¢y/os expansos, apice recurvos, subtus rotundatos 
glabros, supra planos, villosos, sesquilineares. Stigmata acutiuscula. 
Capsule sex, oblongo-lancevlate, stylis subpersistentibus terminate, 
compress, intus angulate, extus rotundatze, uniloculares. Semina 
lineari-oblonga, intus angulata solitaria. folia basi vaginantia, 
plura, glaberrima, leevissima, 2-pedalia, semunciam lata, acuta, 
intus plana, extus paulo convexa, stuposa, lete viridia.  Scapus 
levissimus, semiteres, altero latere planus, stuposus, longitudine 
foliorum. 
Botany Bay. Not mentioned by Bentham or Bailey as collected by Banks, 
Eriocaulee 
ERIOCAULON FISTULOSUM 
Br. ex Sm. in Rees Cyclop. xiii, Aart 26 (Dec. 1809) & Prodr. 225 (1810); Benth. Ft. Austral. vii. 197; Batley, Queensland Fl, 1717. 
[PLATE 317.] 
Calyx communis subglobosus, diametro trilineari, supra haemis- 
pheericus, subtus planiusculus, arcte imbricatus squamis obovatis, 
acuminatis, membranaceis, cinerascentibus, sesquilinearibus, unifloris. 
Flosculi masculi et feminei mixti. Jas. 
capitulum efficientes. Corod/a: gluma unica (forte binz) lanceolata, 
compressa, acute carinata, acuminata, membranacea, tenuissima, ex 
albo pellucida, altero lateri filamenti  inserta, longitudine filamenti. 
Filamentum unicum, _filiforme, 
Calyx nullus, nisi squamz 
erectum, longitudine squamarum 
capituli, albidum, superne complanatum, parum dilatatum apiceque 
quadrifidum, laciniis subulatis divaricatis, unico plerumque breviore. 
Anthere quatuor (scilicet unica pro singula lacinia), ovate, parve, 
nigro-cerulee. Ons. Fructificatio  masculina valde _ singularis 
precipue gluma e filamento laterali ; interdum filamentum apice 
tantummodo trifidum. Femina. Calyx communis ; squame capituli. 
Calyx proprius : gluma bivalvis, uniflora, suborbiculata, latior quam 
longior ; valvule valde compresse, acute carinate, semiorbiculate 
naviculares, squamis capituli duplo breviores, conniventes, glabrata, 
persistentes. Corolla bivalvis ;_ valvulz oblongo-lanceolate, acute, 
villosee, basi attenuate, persistentes, plana, erecta, glumis calycinis 
Germen superum, didymum, compressum. Styli duo, 
Stigmata simplicia, acuta. 
} longiores. 
capillares, longitudine staminum, glabri. 
tenuissima, pellucida, bilocularis, didyma, 
biloba ; lobis orbiculatis, divaricatis, levissimis. Semdcna_ solitaria, 
lentiformia, flava. Radix annua, fibrosa. /odia omnia radicalia, 
fistulosa, parum compressa, subsucculenta, acuminata, glabra, culmo 
plerumque duplo breviora. Cud/mz simplices, plures ex eadem 
radice, erecti, filiformes, teretes, leviter multistriati, glabri, nudi, 
Capsula membranacea, 
enodes, interdum pedales, saepius breviores. 
Endeavour’s River. Described by Brown from Banks's specimens, and only 
known to Bentham from these. Bentham considers it ‘most probably a variety 
only” of £. scariosum Br. non Sm. (Z. Brunonis Britten; cfr. Journ. Bot. 1900, 482) 
to which the plant had been referred in the Banksian Herbarium. 
Gramineae 
LEPTASPIS BANKSII 
Br. Prodr. 211 (1810); Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 211; Bailey, Queensland Flora, 1845. 
[PLare 318.] 
Femina. Calyx diphyllus; foliola subrotundo-ovata, acuminata 
4 inferius brevius. Corolla 
nigro-purpurea, 4 linearia, 
monopetala, ventricosa, pilosa, sordide incarnata, angulis viridibus, 
concava ; 
subrotunda, diametro sesquilineari, oblique depressa, superne gibba 
ut apertura in medio lateris superioris planiorisque, septem-angulata, 
angulis acutis, ad aperturam convergentibus _hispidis. 
minuta, collo 
superioris sita. 
Apertura 
brevissimo acutiusculo cincta, in medio _ lateris 
Nectarium receptaculo, prope insertionem pedun- 
culi, intra germen insertum, subulatum, planiusculum, integrum, 
erectum, longitudine styli, albidum. 
Stylus filiformis, erectus. 
Germen superum, oblongum. 
Stigmata tria, plumosa, extra aperturam 
corolla eminentia,  divaricata. Semen unicum, nudum, ovatum, 
glabrum, corolla  persistenti aridiuscula inflata tectum, styloque 
remanente reflexo coronatum. Scafus culmiformis sed enodis, 
teres, villosiusculus, simplex, 2- ad 3-pedalis, basi per spatium 
dodrantale vestitus vaginis foliorum. oa graminea, lanceolata, 
acuta, integerrima, supra glabra, subtus villis brevibus numero- 
sissimis porrectis hispidiuscula, dodrantalia, unciam lata, subpatula, 
basi attenuata in  petiolos compressos, strictos,  sesquiunciales, 
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scapo adpressos intus canaliculatos, tandem dilatatos in vaginas 
equitantes, acute carinatas. seepe 
multiflora. Ram alterni, biunciales, 
sensim _ breviores ; 
Panicula longa, pedalis, 
remoti; inferiores superne 
in his 
flos 
ramuli pauci, indivisi, flores enim 
sessiles, duo in singulo ramulo. 
superior 
Ramuli paniculz _ biflori; 
Mas. Calyx  diphyllus : 
foliola ovata, acuminata, concava, patula, nigro-purpurea, glabra; 
anterius semilineare, posterius duplo minus. Oss. Forte potius 
Calyx biglumis. Corolla monopetala, univalvis; valvula_ ovata, 
acuta, carinata, 1-linearis, antrorsum (h. e. versus florem femineum) 
aperta, nigro-purpurea, 
masculus, inferior femineus. 
Nectarium receptaculo extra _filamenta 
insertum, subulatum, planum, basi latiusculum, albidum, longitudine 
corollz, superne bifidum, apicibus subulatis erectis. Ons. Nectarium 
quasi esset Germen cassum cum stylo subulato et  stigmatibus. 
duobus. /%lamenta sex, capillaria, alba, corolla paulo longiora. 
Anthere cylindraceo-lineares, 3 linea longe, basi bifid, flave. 
pendule. Habitat in sylvis umbrosis. 
Endeavour’s River. Established by Brown upon Banks’s specimens. 
