74 CXXIX. PHILYDRACER. [Philydrum. 
licidally in 8 valves. Seeds very numerous and small, narrow-oblong, 
brown with black tips, minutely tuberculate, with a short pale funicle. 
—Tall perennial, with flag-like leaves. Flowers sessile within sheathing 
bracts along the rhachis of a long terminal] spike. 
The genus is limited to the single Australian and East —— oa the 
P. glaberrimum of the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ being a species of Helmhol 
1. P. lanuginosum, Banks in Gertn. Fruct. i. 62.—Roots fibrous. 
Stem erect, simple or scarcely branched, about 2 ft. high, with more or 
less of — wool especially on the inflorescence, wearing away with 
a es from under 1 ft. to 1} ft. long, distichous sheathing and 
equitant a the base of the stem, the upper ones shorter and passing into 
short lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate sheathing bracts, all however longer 
than the perianth, the inflorescence forming a long terminal interrupted 
spike, more woolly than the rest of the plant. Flowers closely sessile, 
solitary or rarely two together within each bract. Perianth- segments 
long, the pericarp thin, opening tardily in 8 valves.—R. Br. Pr od. 265; 
Kunth, Enum, iii. 880 ; Guill em. Ie, n Austral. t. 5 ; Bot. Mag. t. 789. 
N. ee aoe Darwin, Schultz, n. 
Que andy Cape, Ke ppel Bay, Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Rockhampto 
and curamque es Bowman, "O Shane y, and others; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy 
Port Curtis, Meier ay ; Cape York, Daemel. 
Ww: Port Jackson and Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; New Engl 
6. Stuart ; Histngs River, Be ckler ; Clarence River, Wilcox ; Mount Elliott, pmi 
Victoria. Upper part of the Wimmera, Wilhélmi 
The same species ranges over the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago and South 
China. 
2. PRITZELIA, F. Muell. 
(Hetzria, Endl.) 
Perianth-segments many- iran Stamen almost hypogynous, & at the 
base of the anterior segment; filament broad and flat, connate to about 
the middle with the 2 ven petal-like staminodia; anther oblong, 
abruptly reflexed outward from the apex of the filament, ; the cells parallel, 
not twisted, opening in longitudinal slits. est perfectly 8-celled ; style 
columnar, with a slightly dilated terminal stigma. Capsule oblong, 
membranous, opening loculicidally in 8 valves, leaving a persistent cen 
placentiforous column. Seeds numerous, small, oblong, brown, minutely 
tuberculate.—A small plant with a simple erect stem, few narrow leaves. 
Flowers sessile within concave bracts in a short terminal spike. 
The genus is limited to the single West Australian species. 
1. P. pygmeza, F. Muell. Descr. Pap. Pl. i. 18.—Stock rat 
perennial, almost thickened into a small bulb more or less woolly, the 
rest of the plant glabrous. stati simple, slender, erect, 8 to 6 in. high- 
Leaves 1, 2, or 3, narrow-linear, shorter than the stem, with a narrow 
g base, the Midi one with a broader sheath and short 
lamina, Flowering-bracts sheathing, 8 to 6 lines E without any 0T 
