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simple terminal spikes or racemes, solitary within small or narrow 
bracts. 
The genus is —— to Australia, the four species regarded by some botanists as 
varieties of a single o 
T dense. na Filth segments 8. to 9 lines 
ike Filaments broad and thin. Anthers narrow, 
^ ons 1. C. philydroides, 
TE donee Outer ‘perianth-segments 6 to 7 lines 
aments narrow ers ren oblong. 2. C. spicatum. 
like. ongatod the flowers all distant. b 
perianth-segments 3 to 4 lines long. Ben 
orton than the anthers 3. C. parviflorum, 
thers ovate, much shorter than the fila- 
Spikes dense. Outer pe rianth-segments 3 to 4 lines 
g 
ts. - 4. C. brachyantherum. 
w Axel. Kir Georpe’s Bound to Swan Hiver kopina abundant 
Drummond, Preiss, n. 2228. d: nM 7: 
2. C. spicatum, R. Br. Prod. Es partly.—Stems branching at 
the Mem peg A hairy, er 6 in. high below the spike. Leaves 
‘minal pores rarely splitting down the sides of the cells. Ovary and 
mecs Pabrik Kn th, Pauia. iv. 115; Bauer, Illustr. Fl. Nov. 
;,N- Australia, Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown; North Goulburn Island, 4. Cunning- 
am; Escape Clitfs, Hulse ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 25. 
3. C. parviflorum, Hassk. in Flora, 1869, 305.— Less hairy than 
` Spieatum, and taller, chieft zuo the Bice ERR "df the spike, the leaves 
very long and narrow. Spike loo with the flowers all 
distant an and often lengthening to 1 ft. or even m ter perianth- 
“ements 3 to 4 lines long, inner suas ality nite oF ees dotted: 
