JAanthorrhea.] CXXXII. JUNCACE®, 117 
10, X. gulata, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 111.—Caudex 
lengthenin out to several feet. Leaves slender but rigid, 1i ft. long 
strictly 4-angular though sometimes slightly flattened, rarely above 
lline broad. Spike 3 or 4 ft. long on a scape at least as long or 
the flowers nearly as long as the outer perianth-segments, glabrous. 
Outer segments oblong-spathulate, serio or € complicate, very 
shortly acuminate quite glabro nne ents obtuse, about 3 
lines long, 3- or 5-nerved, the whitish shortly flattened apex very little 
iiis the outer segmen tam much longer than the 
s. sects. Mount ióny and Barossa vagin F. Mueller. 
: X. Preissii, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 39.—Caudex thick and 
simple other very short or more or x mengata, SREP S often 5 or 
and som 
prodigo a on the very young spike; bracts or braeteoles 
uil g the flowers linear-spathulate, nearly as long as the perianth, 
le often slightly ciliate at the end. Perianth-segments 3 to 31 litas 
hee the outer ones thin, nei. obi concave, 3- or rarely 5-nerved, 
i * inner ones broader, with 5,7 or even more nerves, with a very short 
Ge ding almost h yaline he dikuti twice as long as the perianth. 
pe l ‘ses 6 te ar. d M poi Endl. in Pi. Preiss. ii. 39 ; 
Nae. Apparently common, from Stirling Range to the Vasse and 
Vers, Drummond, Oldficld, Preiss, n. 1620, 1621, F. Mueller and others 
I may be wr 
ELM. ong in uniting the above supposed pecie but I am quite unableto - 
thee ssi them by the dried specimens. "The leaves are often as qua ular i 
and Eaa Preissii as in wmmondii, and the - tad between the elongated 
i stem is accompanied by no other character that I can detect, an and m may 
üpon age, 
5. DASYPOGON, R. Br. 
ux ^ persistent, 6-merous, dry or glumaceous, the 3 outer seg- 
united į in a tu ube, with 3 ovate lobes, the 3 iuner free narrow, 
Bara rather thick ; Pept oblong, entire at both ends, ald 
in the middle, the cells opening longitudinally. Ovary sessile — 
