Xerotes.] CXXXII. JUNCACEA. 105 
concave but less so than in the males, the outer shorter as in the males, 
but not so thin. Capsules about 3 lines diameter, smooth and shining. 
—. graminea, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 48; X. asparagoides, Endl. 1. 
c. 49, 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, Fraser, A. Cunningham and 
many others; thence to Swan River, Preiss, n. 1556, 1557, Oldfield and others. 
The letters J. and M. attached in Brown’s Prodromus severally to X. paucifl ra 
and X. tenuifolia have by some clerical or typographical error been transposed, and 
pauciflora to the King George's Sound plant with elongated 
leafy stems, and that of X. tenuifolia to the Port Jackson stemless plant which I have 
1 . * 
Section II. CEPRALOGYNE.—Male flowers sessile in sessile or rarely 
unculate clusters or heads, usually several on a common simple or 
branched rhachis ; perianth divided to the middle only into 6 equal 
lobes. Female flowers sessile in solitary sessile or very shortly pedun- 
culate heads; perianth divided to the base into 6 equal segments. 
Leafy stems often elongated, especially the females, the scapes pe- 
duncles or sessile heads terminal or in the upper axils. 
19. X. flexifolia, R. Br. Prod. 260.—Stamens slender, branching, 
leafy throughout, diffuse or ascending, rarely above 1 ft. long. Leaves 
linear, Spreading, much twisted when dry, mostly 1 to 15 in. long, their 
closely avpressed sheaths covering the branches. Male flowers in 
dense globular clusters of about 3 lines diameter, sessile along the 
ranches of a narrow panicle of 1 to 3 in., sessile or shortly pedunculate 
T the upper axils. Bracts small, scarious, obtuse. erianth scarcely 
line long, nearly globular, shortly divided into 6 nearly equal obtuse 
obes, Stamens ‘all inserted on the lobes below the middle. 
rudimentary ovary. Female heads larger, solitary and closely sessile 
amongst the leaves. Perianth of 5 distinct lanceolate or ovate-acumi- 
hate segments, lj lines long or when in fruit 2 lines. No staminodia. 
vvaty very prominently 3-angled. Capsule not exceeding the perianth. 
——Dracena obliqua, Thunb. Diss. Drac. Bre 
a S. Wales. Port J ackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 432 or 
and many others, 
20. X, glauca, R. Br, Prod, 260.—A low tufted species, the leafy 
ually short but sometimes especially in the females 
ing out to 5 or 6 in., and densely covered by the leaf-sheaths. 
es narrow-linear, spreading, mostly 2 to 3 in. long but sometimes 
ifolia and their sheathing bases more or less split into 
low nts. Male inflorese simple or shortly branched from the 
Pas. Clusters, the flowers small, in globular clusters along the rhachis. 
anth er 1 line long, pale-coloured, globul panulate, 
