2. S. cespitosa 
. rhizome erect, 1 to 2 feet high, sim 
54 CXXVII. LILIACEJA. [Stypandra. 
spreading, linear or lanceolate, usually 8 to 4 in. long, but sometimes 
twice that length and varying from 2 £o 4 lines in breadth. Flowers in 
lowest. Perianth blue, often turning 
acute, 5-nerved, about 6 lines long 
Capsule oblong, 3 to 
4 lines long. Seeds several in each cell, rather less flattened than in 
ot shining.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xv. 
356; F. Muell, Fragm. vii. 64; S. propinqua, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. 
i. 7; S. frutescens, Knowl. an Weste. Fl. Cab. ii. 61, 69, t. 68; S. 
virgata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 95. 
Queensland. Darling Downs, Zaw. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 202, and 
others; in the interior to Lachlan River, A. Cunningham ; Liverpool Plains, C. 
Moore; New England, C. Stuart. 
Victoria. From the Grampians, Withelmi, F. Mueller, and others; to Eastern 
Gipps’ Land, Waiter. 
- Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown and others; to Swan and Mur- 
chison Rivers, Drummond, O 
2 18 a variety or perhaps only an old 
state with very numerous short lateral branches ly tufte 
S. imbricata, R. Br. Prod. 279, i 
crowded leaves, 
m Ing George's Sound and Lucky Bay, R. 
Brown and others ; and eastward to Cape Le i i 
which however passes gradually i 
» Fi. Br. Prod. 279.—Stems from a thick horizontal 
t ple below the inflorescence. Leaves 
mostly radical, with very short distichous sheaths, erect, rigid, 6 in. to 
, , Smoo 
hi in Journ. Linn, Soc, . 855; . f. Fl, .ii. 55; 
EE ie i : €. XY Hook. f. Fl, Tasm. ii. 55; 
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