80 OXXX. XYRIDEX. [ Xyris. 
Victoria. Mount Eversley, Robertson ; Mount Abrupt, Wilhelmi ; Curdie's River, 
F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; common in wet heaths and peat soils, 
J. D. Hooker. 
S. Australia, Encounter "dh C. Stuart. 
ar. macrocephala. Stems sae 2 ry high. Flower-heads } in. Rye the 
neis almost all fringed.—Blue Mountains, A. and R. Cunningham, Woolls 
Var. bracteata. A few of the outer empty scales of the zi ciae d enlarged and 
spreading.—X. bracteata, R. Br. Prod. 256.—Port Jackson, R. Bro 
X. lanata, R. Br. Prod. 257.—Stock perennial. Leaves few in the 
tufts, almost hod pend 1 or 2 of xem from 6 in. to 1 ft. long, above 1 
the scales oblong- porius usually superposed in 5 distinct rows; 
hirsute outside or almost plumose at the end, the outer ones. often 
woolly-villous to the i Siuctecles with winged Sock ciliate at the 
end, and the outer perianth-segment often tubercular- hirsute at the end. 
Staminodia filiform, with a dense tuft of jointed hairs. Stigmas much 
dilated. Capsule with a hardened apex as in X. operculata. Placentas 
slightly connate at the base, extending up the sides of the cavity but not 
into the hardened apex. Ovules and seeds ascending from the lower 
part of the cavity almost as in X. ur —Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 55. 
King George's Sound and adjoining — R. Brown, Frastts 
A, Cunningham, Dr ummond, n. 201, 354, Preiss, n. 2222, and others 
8. X. laxiflora, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 208.—Apparently Ww 
Leaves tufted, flat, narrow, the inner ones 4 to 6 in. long, the outer 
shorter. , Seapos rather AAE 1 to 2 ft, high. Flower- head ovoid 
shortly ciliate or denticulate, Inner perianth-segments broad but not 
large. Anthers short; staminodia with a dense tuft of hairs. Ovary 
pubescent and shortly 'B-lobed at the Spex ipm united at the irs 
and adnate upwards, but not extending to apex; stigmas slig 
dilated and minutely fringed. Ovules few, ae Capsule hardened i 
the apex but not seen ripe. 
WV. Australia. Drummond, n. 202, 
9. X. gracillima, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 208.—Stems or scapes 8$ 
in X. flezifolia slender, almost filiform, with brown sheaths at their base 
rarely to leav > more in that species, an 
mostly above 1 ft. high, Flower-head ovoid, or serg 3 to 4 lines 
long, quite glabrous, the scales broad, with black margins quite entire 
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