118 CXXXII. JUNCACER, [_Dasypogot. 
the outer perianth. Seed globular, erect; testa membranous ; embryo 
y 8 
linear, erect or nearly so, near the base of the fleshy but not hard 
albumen.—Long-lived perennials with a simple or slightly branched 
dex, covered when old with the persistent sheath of old leav 
Leaves crowded at the apex of the eau r of the flowering 
stems, rarely extending higher up the stems, narrow-linear sproaim 
and rigi ‘lowers in globular heads on long terminal peduncles, eat 
one sessile within a persistent bract without bracteoles 
The genus is limited to West Australia, 
Caudex short and slender. Leafy stems including the 
peduncle 1 to 2 ft, Perianth with long slender very Sigh 
deciduous bristles . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. D. bromeliefolus 
Caudex with the persistent sheaths 2 in. diameter and 
2 to 6 ft. long. Perianth-tube hispid with short per- RU 
sistent bristles  . aL MOU Lute bt mall qU Wirth Qin ee 
1. D. bromelizfolius, R. Br. Prod. 263, and in Flind. Voy. ii. 005 
t. 8.—Stems from a hard rhizome several, erect or ascending, densely 
considerable length the leaves are only 2 to 3 in. long. Peduncle ter 
minal, 6 in. to 
ing head almost or quite glabrous. Bracts closely appressed, vith 
broad bases shorter than the perianth, but the outer ones and some 
times some of the inner ones produced into long subulate points far 
ceeding 1 9i lin 
in fruit, but thickened hardened smooth and shining; U 
segments linear or linear-spathulate ; slightly scarious on the edge&^ 
F. Muell Fragm. ii. 112; D. glaber, Laharpe in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. 
Par. iii. 101. 
King George's Sound, R. B , Drummon 
W. Australia. . Brown d, n. 205, casts 
to Phillips River and Mount Barren, Marwell; Swan Rivyer, Preiss, n. 131 
1872. 
D. obliqvifolius, Lehm. in Pl. Preiss, ii. 52, is founded on old specimens of D. 
iefolius, with shorter 1 onding hnius depy thio Method ini thi 
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