104 CXXXII. JUNCACER. [ Xerotes. 
carp smooth, hard or almost fleshy, tardily opening —Dracena fili- 
Jems Thunb, Diss. Drac. 4, fig. 1; Xerotes Thunbergii, F. Muell. Fragm. 
Queensland. Moreton Bay, F. Mueller and others ; Darling Downs, Law 
Cooper's Cre E imde wman ; ; Bockhampton, O'Shanesy ; Rockingham Bay, pers 
Port Ja R. Brown, Sieber, n. 496. we others ; Hastings, 
Clarence, aces, and Ric = at Rivers, Bechler. Wileox, 
ictoria., Wendu Vale, d aeg common abou t Port Phillip ‘and on the Yarra, 
Gunn, F. Mueller and others ; Grampians, S Mueller ; ; East Gipps’ Land, Walter. 
S. stralia. st, Vincent’s Gulf, F*x. 
I should include as scarcely distinct vari:ties of X. a f 25 asat others p ipa 
by Brown, Prod. 261, as s species, all from Port Jackso rather broad P. d 
leaved form, X. gracilis a long slender-leaved form, X. d d pei rked by mi "m 
in the Prodrom M.), finer I non am cm than the typical X. filiformis, an 
apiri very ien i with short lea 
1M. czespitosa, i eig -—Leafy base of the stem very short, E. 
densely tufted on the rhizome. Leaves y ry narrow, sabulate or il 
Seapes 2 in. long including the spike, which is usually simple pe 
continuous or slightly interrupted. Male ers sessile, Mr : 
solitary within the 8, An sometimes 2 ose togethe 
somewhat potable e. Stamens 3 attached to t ner ae E 
their base alternate with them; anther-cells des attached to 
small connective. Ov. mall rudiment pikes (if pro- 
edicels, Perianth-segments about 2 lines long, all rigid, rather nat- 
row, the inner rather longer than the outer. 
t 
W. Australia. King eee s ee and Swan yigi Oldfield, Dr gemi 
coll. and n. 810 and 817 ; Alban ueller. There are two varieties, yer 
longer rather broader leaves, 221 ane spikes, ~~ coloured perianth-se ted 
inner ones broadly vien theother with mese ves, more slender and interrp 
male spikes, dark coloured perian pde Fix ones almost orbicular. 
"d their heat bases narrow and striate, not s ci 
terminal, filiform, simple or scarcely branched, suae eee the ie i 
lowers few, nodding, solia within subulate scattered bracts mos t T 
shorter thet: the pedicel, west bracts rather longer and 
uppermost minute or Rec es | pedicels varying from 1 to 2 
i 1 
a 
tre of the inner segments, $ on short filaments skrasiti p 
them. Ovary a small rudiment. Female perianth narrow-turbin p 
about 23 lines long, the inner Segments obovoid-oblong, thick 
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