198 CXL. ERIOCAULER. (Eriocaulon. 
rigid bracts rather more numerous, but all floriferous as in that species, 
and the inner female flowers similarly without outer perianth. 
Endeavour River, Banks and Solander. This is the on 
a 
Queensland. 
which Banks and Solander originally gave the MS. name of E. depressum, whi 
Brown transferred to the preceding species. 
Orver CXLI. CENTROLEPIDEJ. 
e and solitary or several 
F sil 
together within more or less herbaceous bracts, with or without Li 
or rarely 3 hyaline scales to each flower. erianth none. Stamens 4, 
e 
fewer by abortion, pendulous and often laterally adnate to the 
Ni 
pericarp; testa thin; albumen somewhat mealy. Embryo small, 
obovoid or conical, at the end of the albumen furthest from the hil 
—Small tufted plants, mostly annuals, with li or filif i 
small densely tufted perennials with imbricate leaves. Flowers voy 
> In solitary terminal heads or spikes, rarely reduced to a smg 
ower. 
Besides the three Australian genera which are endemic, the Order includes = 
other, somewhat different in habit and inflorescence, ing over New Zealan ee 
Antarctic Ameri e whole Order been worked ith gre f the 
Georg Hieronymus in an elaborate me extracted from the twelfth vol. 0 io 
Abhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft of Halle. I thi rd 
that the inflorescence divides more natural genera e toni 
Characters adopted by Hieronymus, and I cannot agree wi considering : 
infi t bracts as a one-branched centrifugal cyme, 
loped, as in Centrolepis Banksii and. C. exserta, and in the lowest bract of Ap 
Drummondii, it appears to me to be clearly a centripetal secund spike. 
Flowers in a depressed head, surrounded by several (about 
6 : : s. Ovaries l.celled with 2 or 3 
styles, intermixed with Mime (1 to each ovary?) . . 1. TRITHURIA* 
Flowers in a flat spike, with several distichous bracts, the 
lowest 1 or 2 with 2 or more flowers entirely or partly 
males, the others with 1 hermaphrodite or female 
flower. Ovary I-celled, with 1 style . . . . . . 2, APHELIA. 
Flowers within 2 alternate bracts,i or more in eac 
; ite. Ovary with 3 or 
more lobes and cells in 2 rows very rarely 
reduced be or carpel 
| 3 superposed 
ced to 1 or 2, with 1 style to each lo 3. CENTROLEPIS. . 
