110 CXXXII. JUNCACEEX. [ Xerotet, 
flowers have fallen away. Periauth campanulate, nearly 2 lines longs 
divided in the males almost to the base into 6 nearly equal deeply 
attached to the base of the segments, usually rudimentary in the 
females, Ovary rudimentary but present in the males, attached by à 
broad base to the thick base of the perianth ; in the females also 
broadly attached, aeuminate. Capsule broadly obovate, aca 
ard, 3-furrowed, rather longer than the perianth.—Endl. .in. Pl 
Preiss. ii. 51. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown ; in various places to the east- 
ward, but rare, Maxwell, Drummond, n. 331, Preiss, n. 1551 
h 
all consolidnted into the long spike above described, with something of the aspect 
of a Xanthorrhea, 
2. CHAM ÆXEROS, Benth. 
s j 
slits. Ovary 3-eelled, with 1 ovule laterally attached in each Re 
style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Fruit unknown, proba 4 
1e same as in Xero/es, — Tufte pereunials, with the habit of som 
scarious lacerated margin. Seapes short. Flowers pedicellate, ™ 
sessile clusters, with short imbrieate scarious bracts. 
The genus is limited to West Australia, and has been included in Xerotes, pi 
which it differs in the flowers mostly hermaphrodite and the filiform undivi ge 
yle, neither of which characters, any more than the lacerated margins of the leav 
ur in any of the numerous species known of Xzrotes. 
Leaves flat. - Scapes with a single terminal globular flower- 
head or umbel Be Cea ete’ dau: co accu ek ca T d^ Basrm 
Leaves terete. Scapes with a branching panicle of small 
flowea-dediep 1. ee US 
2. C. fimbriata. 
1. C. Serra, Benth.—Stems densely tufted, the very short base 
covered with imbricated sheathing scales. Leaves in radical tufts, 
