70 CXXVII. LILIACER. [ Arnoerinum. 
glabrous or with a few woolly es near the base. Radical leaves 
narrow-linear, 2 to 9 in. long. Stems slender, simple or branched, 1 to 
2 ft. high, with sometimes a little en at the base of the branches. 
Flower- heads or spikes ovoid, about + in, long or rather more without 
the Lah ier glabrous except a few woolly hairs bordering some of 
the bracts. aots imbricate, 8 to 4 lines long, either wholly scarious 
or the broad polite of some of the outer ones green rigid and striate. 
Perianth-tube narrow, cylindrical, about 3 lines long, the limb longer, 
blue, with 6 broad lobes, all 1-nerved according to Oldfield's M but of 
so delicate a texture as to be very imperfectly preserved in dry 
gem 
Swan River, Dessen, lst coll. n. 777, Preiss, n. 2640 ; Mur- 
Phe ite Qu Didfid 
. Preissii, Lehm., Pl. Preiss, ii. 42, —Very near A. Drummondii, 
but rather stouter, more rigid and more branched, sometimes producing 
tufts of short leaves at the bifurcations. Flower- heads of the same size; 
but the bracts all dry and brown, and densely covered with long woolly 
hairs. Perianth apparently smaller, but imperfect in the dried specimens. 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst coll, n. 778, Preiss, n. 2226; Mur- 
chison River, Oldfield. 
40. BORYA, Labill, 
about 20) ovules in each om superposed in 0 rows : sty e filiform, 
with a small capitate sti apsule wash amongst the persistent 
bises 8-valved. Seeds ur with a black crustaceous testa, without 
usually papi sie brdih or black, each with iig flower sessile in its 
axil, enclosed in a bracteole similar to the bract but broader, 
with inflected searious margins. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Leaves various. Peduncle rarely above 3 in. Outer 
——— y longer € — Western | 
Leaves a all erect subulate. ` Peduncle de 6 to 10in. Outer 
Meer the North-eastern 
ae LI LI ES LI Lip, LI Ld La - . ne. . 2. p. aipitenttionielis: 
“1. B. nitida. 
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