Xanthorrhea.] CXXXII. JUNCACER. 115 
Queensland. Port Curtis, 2. Brown, a diminutive species to which I have not 
seen any approach in any other collection, 
hastilis, R. Br. Prod. 288.—Caudex very short or often 
5. 
scarcely prominent. Leaves 3 to 4 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, flat in 
6 to 8 ft. long below the spike, which attains from 1$ to 2 ft. but is not 
so thick as that of X. arborea, and readily known by the dense rusty 
tomentum covering the ends of the bracts and outer perianth-seg- 
lines long, oblong, 3- or 5-nerved, opaque, concave, scarcely acumi- 
nate, pubescent outside ; inner ones very little longer, dilated hyaline 
e 
: re ab 
spike.—F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 113; Bot. Mag. t. 4722. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and several 
` others, 
c The Flinders Island specimens “ bracteis perianthiisque imberbibus” referred b 
irs rr Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 59 to X. hastilis, must belong to some other species, 
having no specimens it is impossible to identify it. 
à 
f m X. arborea, R. Br. Prod. 288.— Caudex growing out to several 
eet in height with a diameter of 6 to 9 in. Leaves as in X. hastilis 
dava "ous, 3 to 4 ft. long and 2 to 3 lines broad. Scape under 
e spike attaining 5 or 6 ft. and the spike itself 3 to 4 ft. long, 1 to 14 
onte ps. Perianth-segments about3 lines long, 3-nerved, the 
: T Ones Concave at the end with a very short obtuse point, either 
E labrous or shortly and sparingly pubescent; inner ones scarcely 
'ger, the dilated ends hyaline and slightly spreading. Stamens not 
uch longer than the : r 
er th: perianth. Capsule 7 to8 lines lung, more acumi 
hate than in hastilis. : á 
and the an; Rockhampton, 0’ Shavesy, Bowman and others, with narrow leaves 
feda spike not so thick as in the Port Jackson specimens, but apparently the same 
othe, = Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls and 
la, X-semiplana, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 111.— Caudex not elongated. 
obt es long, about 3 lines broad and flat with the dorsal angle 
x m and but sli : : : : 
w 
us 
linear the same length, from 2 to 1 in. diameter when in flower. Bracts 
mente * dy acuminate, Perianth about 3 lines long, the outer seg- 
vate, coneave at the end, scarcely cr nos at all acuminate, quite 
glabrous, the inner ones scarcely longer. 
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