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and spreading or recurved. Panicle varying from loose and spreading 
o narrow with the cymes contracted into. short clusters. Perianth- 
segments 3 to 4 or rarely 5 lines long, all 5-nerved or the inner en 
only 8-nerved. Filaments with the thickened apex much shorter 
either the filiform base or the oblong-linear anther, which varies on 
1i to 2 lines long. Ber — à smaller than in D. tasmanica.—Baker 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 577; D. longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 280; F 
Muell. Fragm. vi. 122. a strumosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 751. 
Queensland. Various localities from Moreton Bay to Rockhampton, but 
apparently not abundant, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, ries others; Keppel Bay to 
Northumberland vy mes R. Eus own, all the tong-leave ed fo 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Moun Brown, Miss Atkinson, 
and others; New England, C. Stuart, rien a em Beet. with the leaves not 
2 lines broa 
Pus toria. ur on Yarra, F. Mue 
me specimens Ee “South Esk Riv ver, C. Stuart, in Herb. F. 
weder, y appen i belong to this species, um those referred by F. Mueller to 
D. fem Lofty Range, Wirth; Barossa Range, F. Mueller. 
era. Leaves s usually Short, spreading, ri rigid, and often, but not always, 
serous em the edges and midribs. D. elegans, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 122, but scarcely 
unth, who — the anthers as brown, whilst they one to be always 
yellow i in D. lev 
d, R. Br. m od, 280, from Shoal Bay, R. Brown, appears to me, from the 
digo. specimen in his he rbarium, to be a "donde starved state of D. levis 
3. D. revoluta, R. Br. Pr od, 280. —Leaves distichous ae crowded 
th narro 
margins closely revolute over the midrib, leaving a deep furrow on the 
upper side, the edges and midrib scabrous or smooth. Panicle when 
fully out looser and more spreading with larger flowers more deeply 
coloured than in D. cari ste Perianth, especially in the southern speci- 
mens, often above 4 lines long, usually smaller in the northern ones. 
Anthers considerably longer than the filaments, of which the thickened 
apex is usually very short. Berries small, globular.—Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xiv. 578; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 121; D. divaricata, R. 
Br. Prod. 280; Baker, l.c.; D. longifolia, Bot. Reg. t. 734, not of 
R. Br. 
Queensland. Upper Burnett River, F. Mueller; Rockhampton, O*Shanesy, 
Bowman. 
W.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 198; 
Hastings River, ente Nurrum e edap Leichhardt. 
ictoria. Common in dry districts, especially near the sea-coast, F. Mueller, 
Robertson, and others. 
Round Spencer's and St. George's Gulfs, F. Mueller, Blandowski, 
and others. 
W. Australia. King George etg oror ge: F. Mueller, and others; and 
thence eastward to the P eei gg Bight, axwell; and northward to Swan and 
Murchison Rivers, Drummond, Preiss, n. 1597. Old, lfield. 
