86 CXXXI. COMMELYNACEX. LAneilema. 
singly Scattered along the branches within broad cucullate bracts 
under j line long, or 2 ree within the uppermost bracts. Outer 
perianth-segmonts oblong, 1$ lines long, inner ones twice as long, 
3 or 4 (sometimes 5 ?) ovules in each cell. Capsule oblong, very ob- 
tuse, much flattened, longer than the perianth. Seeds irregularly 
tuberculate-rugosq— A. lazum, R. Br. Prod. 270; A. siliculosum, F. 
uell. Fragm. viii. 61, not of R. Br. 
ensland. Endeavour River and Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander ; Moreton 
Bay, F. Mueller, Backhouse and others; Rockhampton, O'SAanesy, Bowman, and . 
others; ; Rocki Pen Bay, Dallach 
ales. Grose River, R. Brown ; omen and Hastings Rivers, Bechler; 
Tweed River, C. Moore ; New England, C. ‘Stua 
biflorum, R. Br. Prod. 270.—Stems very slender, Vae 
A. 
ind MEUS echoed at the base, the flowering branches ascending l 
to 6 or 8 in. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, distinctly petiolate above . 
. long. Inflorescence sessile within the | 
last leaf and my exceeding it, consisting usually of 2 short ba 
the sheath, mostly 1 to 12 in 
each bearin owers within mall cucullate bract, witho 
l 
in A. acuminatum. 
M igecqe-cres i i rt a he Bailey. 
N. S. Wales, R, Brown; New England, C. Stuart. 
3. A. scle erocarpum, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 61.—Stems weak, 
bella wem. e oon 1 ft., with the tita peat sony 
of 4. acumin es lanceolate, acute, tapering into short 
petiole above ‘the ion th, mostly 1$ to2 in. long. Panicle shalt but 
loose and slender, sessile above the last leaf, with few rather Jong 
filiform branches, each bearing several flowers on filiform posa: 0 
to 4 lines, solitary and distant along the scies but a 2 
— within the last bract. B 
metimes under the lowest 1 or 2 branches. rare perianth-seg- 
Sane ovate, obtuse, about 12 lines long, i inner ones longer. Filaments 
all glabrous, 3 with perfect. anthers, 3 with a 
third cell. Capsule as broad as lon ng and rather shorter than the 
perianth, the pericarp rather more vigie m rie darker coloured than in 
A. acuminatum. Seeds tuberculate-r rugos 
' Queensland. Hoerbert's Creek, Bowman, 
4. A. siliculosum, Z. Prod. 270.—Quite smooth and glabrous 
