Xerctes.] CXXXII. JUNCACER. 97 
numerous flowers, or with a short branch bearing a small cluster pro- 
ceeding from the lowest cluster. Capsule about 3 lines diameter, 
smooth or scareely wrinkled. 
Queensla Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Cooktown, Fitzalan ; Capo 
York Peninsula, Hann’s Expedition ; Cape York, Daemel ; frequent in islands off the 
sek C. Moore ; and apparently the same species, New Caledonia, Vieillard and 
2. X. dura, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 425 Fragm. viii. 
207.— Leafy base of the stem very short. Leaves 1 to 2 ft. long, 
mostly about 2 lines broad, rigid, flat or convex underneath, the sheath- 
ing base scarious on the margin. Scape short, thick, slightly flattened. 
Panicles both male and female much branched and very rigid, with 
small bracts and small flowers sessile or nearly so in numerous clusters 
at and along the ramifications. Male perianth campanulate, about 
1 line long, the outer segments thin, ovate, obtuse, free from the base, 
the inner us as long, but more petal-like and united at least to 4 of 
s. Australia, Lofty ranges, F, Mueller ; in the interior, M* Dougal Stuart. 
Mis Ass longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 262.— Leafy base of the stems very 
Renee tufted. Leaves radical or nearly so, 1 to 2 ft. long, flat or 
B UJ concave, varying from 1 to 3 lines iu width, rather rigid, mostly 
f at the apex, with a short membranous sheathing base. Scape 
rom under : ft, to nearly 2 fc. high including the inflorescence, much 
e 
in the females. Bracts under the clusters shortly broad at the 
; usually with long rigid subulate points, sometimes all far ex- 
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broad ay, Bracts or bracteoles subtending or enclosing the flowers 
the “Sa hyaline, shorter than the perianths, often very numerous in 
un, V. Int ited i sr each flower in the males. 
Perianth ewer or united into one under each flower in 
dlwave tying from 1 to nearly 2 lines in length, usually but - 
always larger 
Tor r in the females than in the males, the 3 outer segmen 
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