64 CXXVII. LILIACEA. [ Laamannia. 
advan 
Stems usually short and tufted. Peduncles very much 
longer than the leaves. 
Outer phy tour about 3 lines, inner less than half as long 
roadly ovate - L. grandiflora. 
Oates: p about 2 lines, inner oblong, more than 
would appear to me to be productive of much confusion, without any corresponding 
tage. 
e. bracts ‘few, obian, inner very short, pened 
ong hai 
im] 
. Squarrosa. 
Outer 1 bes more 1 _Bumerous, often acuto, inner short 
and short ged 
Stems slender, edens : 1 branched and leafy. Peduncles 
ge i ionge an the 
Inner perianth-segments deside than the outer. Eastern 
8 
B 
minor. 
- » 4. L, gracilis. 
Inner E perinihegnent shorter than the outer. ` Wes- 
1 . L. ramosa. 
Heads -— n peduncles shorter than the leave es. 
Stems sender i branched. Leav ually elongated. 
-segments ceci Fue or at length 
jiker pei than the outer 6. L. sessiliflora. 
Stems on A se and densely tufted. "Leaves mostly 
r 
Leaves crowded a along the short ste Flower-heads 
rather broad, exc cr the e the outer bracts 
numerous and obt . L. brachyphylla. 
Leaves in terminal tufts 1 longer than the s heads, Outer 
racts not numerous and m ostly 8. L. sessilis. 
. L. grandiflora, Lindl. wd e App. 56.—Stems tufted when 
old densely and shortly branched as in L. squarrosa. Leaves crowded as 
in that species but usually more po 1 to 2 in. long, the scarious 
sheaths terminating in long fringed bristles. Peduncles 6 to 10 in. long. 
Outer empty bracts of the head from 10 to 20, ovate, obtuse, scarious 
e 0 
broadly obovate, quite closed, about $ lines 1 long. Stamens not exceed- 
ing the inner segments. Ovary stipitate.—F, Muell. Fragm. vii. 88 
W. Australia. Swan River, d lst coll. and n. 192. 
Var. paleacea. This is a dwarf variety with short leaves which almost connects 
the e species with L. minor, but it has the numerous obtuse empty bracts and the short 
inner rianth-segments of L. grandiflora. —L -sparte Endl. in PL Preiss. it 
42, not of Lindl.; Z. paleacea, F. M uell. Fragm. i. en P eed i River, Maxwell; 
York District, Preiss, n. 1888; between s Range, 
er , with very numerous outer empty bids. s thas ag the ierabaete of 
Composite. 
L. squarrosa, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 56.—Stems tufted when 
ola, densely and shortly branched. Leaves crowded, almost subulate, 
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