Xerotes.] CXXXII. JUNCACEJE. 101 
The specimens from all the localities are few or single only, and the species 
requires further illustration. It may prove to be a remarkably aberraut form o 
X. multiflora, 
W. Australia. King George's Sound to Swan River, Drummond, lst coll. aud 
í 2 Harvey, Pr.iss, n. 1530, F Mueller, Oldfield and others; Port Gregory, Old- 
Xin . The Swan River specimens have usually smaller flowers than those from 
g George's Sound, but do not otherwise differ. 
glli X. sericea, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 51,—Closely allied to Æ. 
ndlicheri, of which F. Mueller (Fragm. viii. 206) thinks Oldfield's 
V dria may be a variety, with the lower part of the leaf sprinkled on 
e back and margins with long loose soft hairs not observed in any 
branchin and compact panicle than in X. End/icheri, the pedicels very 
ort lowers small but otherwise the same as in X. Endlicheri. 
ane Australia. Grantham, Preiss, n. 1542 ; Harvey River, Oldfield ; Hampden, 
- lhave not seen Preiss's typical specimens, but the single ones from the two 
Stations agree with Endlichers imperfect character, The species requires 
on, 
«12. X. purpurea, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 49.—Leafy base of the 
split very short and tufted, when old often surrounded by numerous 
Pt remains of old sheaths. Leaves very rigid, under 1 ft. long, 1 to 
Sea, es broad, thick, strongly striate, with prominent thick margins, 
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