Xanthosia.} LVI. UMBELLIFERA. 359 
l. X. juncea, Benth. Quite glabrous. Stems from a thick rhizome, 
ascending or erect, slender but rigid, 1 to 2 ft. long. -Leaves very few an 
chiefy radical, cg terete, those on the stem very small and distant. Pe- 
me» ng and slender, bearing a compact irregularly Been umbel of 
margins, 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers near sessile, 3 or 4 in pot i 
meli bd. Calyx- lobes short, orbicular, peltately attached by the centre. 
etals narrow with an inflexed point. Disk-lobes glabrous. Fruit with the 
met a only slightly prominent.—Schænolæna juncea, Bunge in Pl. 
289 
W. DAMM Swan River, Preiss, n. 2082; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy. 
. X., tenuior, Benth. Very near X. juncea, with the same habit, linear- 
terete, almost subulate radical Teas, nearly leafless stems and compact inflo- 
rescence, but smaller and more: slender in all its parts, and the ealyx-lobes 
ovate acute, slightly cor eege at the base, but not at all peltate.— 
a tenuior, Bunge in Pl. Preiss. i. 290. 
W. Australia. Near Albany, Preiss, n. 2080 ; King George's Sound, Maclean, Harvey. 
3. X. pe Itigera, Benih. Quite yn Stems -from a perennial 
sock, n numerous, ascen nding to 1 or 2 ft, more or less angular. Leaves on 
mug petioles, broadly orbicular-cordate ren niori or ovate-rhomboidal, often 
ones exceeding the flowers. Calyx-lobes broadly oblong, very obtuse, 
rad attached by the centre. Petals shortly unguiculate, not inflexed at the 
tips D " 
de ones Pct pue inent. — peltigera, Hook. 
PI. . i. 292. 
n. 2081; 
King Come 8 ct Fraser 
de elicitin; Benth. Stems elongated, we 
d Ek ak, branching, diffuse, 
glabrous or tomentose when young. Leaves “petiolate, 
orbicular-cordate, 
lobes pur 
: ple, Be tat eerie! eltate nor cordate. 
glabrous, Petals Brn p rather large; the secondary ribs u 
5 Pet as well as les a mae ones. 
tralia, Drummond, 5th Coll. n. 294. 
* e " x. candida, Steud. ; Bunge in Pl. Preiss. i. 291. Stems long, slender, 
