98 CXXXII. JUNCACER. [Xerotes. 
rudimentary ovary. apsule shortly protruding from the persistent 
perianth, ovoid or almost globular, 2 to 3 lines diameter, hard, smooth 
and shining.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 63; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 210; 
"us E 1839, t. 3; Lomandra longifolia, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 92, 
Queensland. Broad Sound and Thirsty Sound, R. Brown ; from Moreton Bayı 
F. Mueller and others, 5 Rockhampton, 0’ Shanesy ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; 
urdekin River, F. Muell 
N.S. Wales. Port i Ji ackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and many others 
very abund ant in the northern districts, Fr aser, C, Stuart, oor and many others} 
in the interior to the E and Barcoo Rivers, Fraser, 
Victoria , Robertson, common about M Sibouthe and along the Yarm, 
Adamson, E S ke Kad others rs, ascending on Mount Barklay to 5000 ft., E x 
Tasman: = eng abundant on rds and moist iesus re pughout 
colony, J. D. Res 
South Au m Rivoli Bay, F. Mueller, 
This species varies ap Apoo in the length and breadth of the Ivet je much 
more conspicuously in th and 
ramification of the panicle, in ur of Hf 
eri shini colourless and sree a 
according to collectors when fresh from a golden yellow to black or yellowish white, 
and especially in mber and len f minent subulate bracts 
the specimens kno ere but few, they seemed to present several distinct forms 
which are now found to pass so gradually into each other that we are com 
unite the following species par M Brown e 262) : ar Le. giis Br. 
from Port n asm 
bracts to each cluster, very divaricate, subulate, and 3 to lin. long, whilst th s 
mall. it also ohne P fco et in the northern districts 
of N.S. Wales, Another paniculate y, with the ara sedate few and very 
— was gathered by F, Mueller on yt S d's River and s er localities 
ut the specimens are old and the longer bracts probably ies as away 
to 4 in. long including the inflorescence sie 
t is shortly branched at the base. 
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