Calectasia.] CXXXII. JUNCACER. 121 
style filiform, with a small terminal stigma. Fruit 1-seeded, oblong or 
fusiform, indehiscent, enclosed in the slightly hardened tube of the 
peria! i 
os 
base of the fleshy albumen.—Stems woody but slender, branched, co- 
vered with leaf-sheaths. Leaves small, linear-subulate. Flowers singly 
sessile at the ends of the short branches, surrounded by leaty 
The genus is limited to the single Australian species. 
gb G cyanea, R. Br. Prod. 264, and in Flind. Voy. 1. 609, t. 9.— 
Stems usually clustered, erect or ascendin , flexuose with short often 
humerous branches, mostly about 1 ft. high, covered with the sheaths 
of old leaves, the whole plant more or less pubescent or almost gla- 
ute or pungent-pointed, 4 to 8 lines long, almost 3-quetrous towards 
the end, flatte low the , the sistent sheaths closely em- 
facing the the ones passing into the floral bracts 
fl horizont a 
wo when old losing their colour or turning brown especially 
be € Centre, Perianth-tube slightly thickened when in fruit, 
ut the flower not otherwise enlarged.— Endl. Iconogr. t. 3S (not 
bx correct as to the Stamens) ; Walp. Ann. vi. 156; C. grandiflora, 
sh 205 Pl Preiss. ii. 53; ©. intermedia, Sond. in Linnea, 
Grampians, F. Mueller, Sullivan; Wimmera, Dallachy ; Tattiara 
ds ; heath west of Glenelg River, Robertson. 
Ww. à R own, Herb. F. Mueller. 
^ a. Apparently very abun 
urc. 
Victoria, 
SENS, Wi 00. 
ant from King George's Sound to 
Brown, A. Cunningham, Drummond, ist. coll. 
others; eastward to 
7 
Swan and sed. lvers, 2. i 
, A » and 180, Prei * 75 man 
Cape Paisley, MEO o tiM, NS i 
longer and E varies very much, in the leaves very short and appressed or much 
ce: 
i spreading, in the pube sometimes confined to the base of the 
the gat e or a little on ines of its lobes, generally rather more eopious about 
in the sj; ond me specimens soft ense over the whole plant, and especiall: 
3 lines Jon of the flowe me no. cimens the lobes are scarcely above 
lobes are ost obtuse, in the generality of southern and eastern ones, the 
tt is im ^ 6 or even 7 lines long ry acute, but in a large series of specimens 
2i Ensuxcex.—Perianth small, the segments all free and 
ae Anthers erect. Style with 3 linear stigmatic branches. 
‘Sh ss-like or terete, mostly radica!, or none. 
