120 CXXXII. JUNCACER. [ Kin gia. 
when first out, but lengthening to 1 in. Anthers almost entirely ex- 
serted, scarcely- broader than the filaments. Ovary and young fruit 
very densely villous, the ripe fruit only known from Brown’s descrip- 
tion.— Kunth, Enum. iii. 376; K. australis and K. argentea, Preiss, 
Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 52. 
W. Australia, King George's Sound, R. Brown, and thence to Swan River, 
Drummond, Preiss, n. 1526, 1527, Oldfield, Harvey. 
7. BAXTERIA, Br. 
Perianth persistent, of 6 equal erect long and narrow distinct seg- 
ments. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the segments and shorter 
than them ; filaments rigid, slightly flattened ; anthers long and linear, : 
obed a 
cell; style subulate, th a s erminal stigma. Capsule 
obovoid, flat-topped, opening elastically in 6 valves, leaving the dissepl- 
ments attached to the axis, the rigid endocarp each valve detached 
bas 
remaining in the specimens I have seen.)—Flowers large, sessi 
"a litary in the centre of the dense tufts of long narrow 
eave 
The genusis limited to the single species endemic in West Australia. 
.australis, Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 492, t. 13 to 15.— Stock 
very short, woody, crowned by numerous tufts, of which some con- 
sist of leaves only which are erect, linear, 1 to 14 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines 
road in the middle, dilated at the base into broad striate sheaths, the 
flowering tufts have only 
1 in. long and the rather 
about in. diameter when open.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 52. 
W. Australia. King George's Sound and to the eastward, Barter, Drummond 
n. 303 and 464, Preiss, n. 1525. 
8. CALECTASIA, R. Br. 
_Perianth persistent, hypoerateriform, the tube cylindrical or slightly 
dilated upwards, the limb of 6 spreadi ane H 
an 
but eoloured lobes. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the lobes 
filaments shortl filiform; anthers linear, erect, 
shorter than them; 
shortly lobed at the base, the cells opening in terminal pores sometimes 
