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the flowers examined. Ovary narrow, the placentas free from each 
other and adnate to the apex of the cavity. Style rather long, with 
short branches and entire fan-shaped stigmas. Ovules few and narrow. 
Capsule not seen ripe.— X. «mula, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 55. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drum- 
mond, n. 254, partly, Preiss, n. 2221 
9. X. gracilis, R. Br. Prod. 256.—Very similar to the narrow- 
headed specimens of X. operculata, and not always easy to distinguish 
Leaves —— — — -— more twisted, some- 
ces s nearly 1 line broad, some varieties as narrow as in that 
eeu and not extending much up the sides of the cavity. iHa 
Fl. Tasm. ii. 69; X. juncea, R. Br. Prod. 256. 
Queensland. Brisba ne River, B 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the ‘Biue — Jim juncea), R. eet aie 
and Sem; Nw ag land, €. Stuart, C. Moore ; Has meg 
Bee 
rt Phillip R. Brown (X. granit 5 “Glen g River ` Robertson ; 
Doninong. Ranges, F. Mueller ; Curdie's Inlet, Walker 
ania. mmon in various places in similar focilittbe to X. operculata, Gunn 
and others. 
bi bracteata. Flower-heads "eium eei ard scales enlarged into spreading 
acts, bracteoles broader than in the n form, with slightly peiie and 
minutely ciliate dorsal keels, but the o rote aito. of X. gracilis than of X. operculata. 
i uth Port, Tasmania, C. Stuart ; between Circular Head and Arthur River, F. 
6. X. o 
uana into very narrow almost subulate leaves, imer 
in. lo 
em Or fringed at the end. Inner perianth-segments very broadly 
?90vate, 4 to 6 lines diameter. Anthers deeply lobed at the base and 
st jun So at the upper end. Staminodia. filiform, te dense tuft 
entire sua ff 
Il eem d itting i R. Br. Prod. 257; 
part only splitting into valves.—R. br. i 
Tasm. ii, 69; Bot. Mag. t. 1158; Lodd. Bot. Cab, t. 205. 
Ne. Port Ji to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A. and R. Cun- 
j alara 1 nd riven, elie New England, C. Stuart. 
