100 CXXXII. JUNCACER, [ Xerotes. 
SERIES TI. Fascrcvunar®.—Male flowers pedicellate and numerous in 
sessile clusters (irregular in X. sororia). 
lower clusters. Flowers sessile, longer than in the males, the perianth- — 
the valves rigidly coriaceous, marked with more or less prominent 
transverse wrinkles.— X. Brownei, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 206. 
N. Australia. Islands off the north coast, R. Brow 
n. 
. Queensland, Endeavour River and Bustard Bay, Banks and Solander ; Keppel 
Bay, R. Brown; Moreton Bay, Flood; Peak Downs, F. Mueller; Rocka 
Thozet, O'Shanesy, Bowman ; Rockingham Bay,  Dallachy; Port D ; 
Fitzalan. N 
N Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and others; Ne 
. S. Wales. ree 
England, €. Stuart ; Hastings River, Beckler; Richmond River, Fawcett ; 
River, Wilcox. rtland, 
ictoria. Wendu Vale, Robertson ; Glenelg River, F. Mueller; Po 
Allitt. 
S. Australia. Encounter Bay, Whittaker, 
he 
The species varies much in the degree of ramification of the panicle, ei » 
ecimens described by R. Brown, Prod. 262, as X. distans and X. emt d 
all only slizht varieties of one specie 
9. X. sororia, F. Muell. in Herb. Kew. Habit of the long rigil 
narrow-leaved forms of X. filiformis, but the panicles small, very narro 
and compact, with very short erect branches or reduced to a sib it 
spike, and the flowers all erect and very shortly pedicellate. - Frui 
in the Rockhampton specimens) rather longer than in X. filiform 
deeply marked with transverse wrinkles, 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Bowen River, Rockhampto® 
Bowman, 
Victoria. Mount M‘Ivor, €. Stuart ; Grampians, F, Mueller. 
. S. Australia. St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller. 
, a "2.8 m 
he north coast, and X. media and x. multiflora 
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