Xyris. | CXXX. XYRIDEEF. 77 
Bracts with black jagged margins. Anther-cells adnate 
2 preston part of their length. No staminodia. 
species. 
Flower-heads globular. Bracts MA broad reu EA X. lace 
wer-heads ovoid or oblong. vate. X Jezioli 
Tandala very short and confluent at ‘the pa of the ov ary. 
r characters of X. menie but bracteoles not 
‘ 5, X. gracilis. 
biens. connate ‘at the base of the ovary, “ex tending als 
up the sides. es paa eril hardened at the apex. 
Staminodia densely penicillate. Bracteoles with a pro- 
minent or era Sia uall "ciliate keel. 
pela. Broad ium appressed, entire or the inner 
es j agg astern Species D A operculata, 
acts Meo tiere 8 hirsute or plumose at the end. 
estern spec 7. X. lanata. 
Bracts ovate-oblong, loosely imbricate or spreading, 
glabro Western spec 8. X. laxiflora. 
Staminodia wall trans pe dilated at the end, without 
ie ed, en we stern sp . 9. X. gracillima. 
X. altissima, Todd Bot. Cab. E pa ,by a KE IN error supposed to be 
Su evidently Bolartia oe Boar from South Africa uin 
- X. complanata, R. Br. Prod. 256.—8tock Mm Leaves 
un Baer) surrounded by a few old brown sheaths, grass-like, flat, 
often very narrow, varying from 1 or 2 to above 3 in. long. Scape 
more or less flattened, from under 1 ft. to about 14 ft. high. Flower- 
head at first short and ovoid, but sometimes lengthening into à ridens 
spike of 3 to 1 in., the soniga broad, light-brown, entire or the 
ones slightly ciliate, the lower empty ones ew PE eti inn 
minently keeled or wi narrow dorsal shortly ipie ger ner 
dorsally 
aj a small connective ; staminodia densely e Style 
vided sk to the base. Placentas of the ovary free from each other 
of cavity. Reads A numerous and 
Linn. Soc. x. 989, t. 15; "E. Muell. Fragm. vii 
ewe Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Bathurst 
2 ‘og ngham; Sea Range and Victoria River, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, 
ogee aeensland, Facing Island (X. levi), R. Brown ; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller and 
x "i, Rockhamp pton, Viren i Endeavour River, .4. Cunningham ; Rockingham 
x lachy ; gue nison, Fitzalan. 
Riy, N. S. Wales. ackson (X. scabra), R. Brown, Woolls, and others ; Hastings 
er and Mount Mischa Beckler. 
in East India if X. Walkeri, Wight in Kunth, Enum. iv. 19, 
to be. 
it appears 
3 tod ios Mo Pd r scales E RC flower-head enlarged into spreading bracts of 
Var. ? bate, ton Bay, Lei 
Flower. head Sca y narrow, scarcely compressed or angular-terete. 
Upper Bris small and aaa pL t examined. —Cape York, M'Gillivray ; 
bane River and Provide: lig oa oem 
caver Panitra, | ip Phytogr. i. 2, t. 1.—Apparently annual. 
m radical tufts, grass-like, narrow, pine above 6 in. long. 
