Lazmannia.] CXXVII. LILIACES. 67 
base into woolly hairs as in L, sessilis, and. perianths entirely as in that 
species. i : 
W. Australia. King George's Sound or to the eastward, Bazter, and probably 
the same region, Drummond, n. 445; East Mount Barren, Maxwell ; Uppe r Kalgan 
eh and Perongerup, F. ‘Mueller ; between Esperance Bay and ging s Range, 
emp. 
8. L. sessilis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 56.—Stems branched and 
densely tufted, the whole plant rarely above 1 in. high, the lower part 
of the branches covered with scarious leaf. sheaths, Leaves forming 
short terminal tufts, v very narrow-linear, recurved, 3 to 8 lines long, the 
bristles of the sheaths few and long, simple or slightly divided, Flower- 
eads ovoid or oblong, sessile or near ly so, shorter than the leaves. 
Outer bracts not very numerous, mostly acute; inner ones divided 
nearly to the base into woolly hairs. Perianth sessile or nearly so, the 
outer segments about 23. lines long, the inner ones ovate-oblong about 
1 lines lo =: TE n Pl. Preiss. ii, 42. 
Swan River, PNE lst coll. ; Hay District, Preiss, n. 1590; 
W. A 
Pie Fixe Range, F. Mueller (the latter specimens not fully out and somewhat 
97. STAWELLIA, F. Muell. 
Perianth of 6 equal 8-nerved segments, shortly united at the base. 
Stamens 8, inserted at the base of the inner segments and shorter than 
them ; filaments filiform or flattened ; anthers linear or linear-lanceolate, 
erect, the cells opening inwards in longitudinal slits. Ovary 3-celled, 
vi ovules in each cell; xk filiform entire. Capsule opening locu- 
b and simple scapes. Flowers in a den se prem: head, with imbricate 
Tacts, the outer ones produced into filiform leav 
The genus is limited to the single species endemic in rest Australia. 
L. S. dimo: hantha, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 85.—A slender glabrous 
perennial, fo a nse tufts of 4 to B in. Leaves all radieal except 
those of the flowet: henda, linear-filiform, shorter than the seapes, with 
einn mobeated dilated bases. Stems simple, rigidly filiform. Flower- 
— i 4 lines diameter, surrounded by rigidly filiform leaves or 
gue of the piter bracts often 1 in. long. Rhachis of the head or 
Spike often branched though close and compact. Bracts searious, imbri- 
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ias in each head very narrow linear and 3 lines long, the others much j 
"bed and broader, ` Filaments of the outer flowers filiform, of the 
er ones short and flat. Capsule very small, enclosed in the perianth, 
< Drummond. 
Temarkable differen, hape of the outer and inner fom M6 partly 
but not entirely caused by a difference i in the degree of deve op aa i ne Raro nof: 
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