CXLI. CENTROLEPIDEJ. 199 
1. TRITHURIA, Hook. f. 
Flowers very numerous, in a terminal head, sessile within a few 
imbricate spreading bracts, probably hermaphrodite, with 1 stamen and 
vary each, but the stamens and ovaries so closely packed as to 
inner scales. Stamens 
— 
C The genus is limited to southern Australia, and seems in some mea 
entrolepider @ with Eriocaulee. The that of the latter, but the 
absence of perianth or inner scales would place it rather with Centrolepidee, 
Bracts lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acuminate. Fruits 
B and seeds ovoid 
Tacts aer noetlale;» acuminate, Fruits and seeds 
narrow-oblong . . 2. T. occidentalis. 
l. T. submersa. 
mersa, Hook. > Fl. Tasm. ii. 79. t. 138. — Leaves radieal, 
r 
about one line long, thin and pale with a darker central nerve, ot ies 
e 
l oe ae side the ers. Stamens with the anthers emily as 
etyl racts ; ovaries much shorter though shortly stipitate, the 
iL, m à long ruits mostly 3-angled, but some flattened with 
e 
sud dges thickened, very little more than + line long.—Junecella 
inica, F. Muell. Second Gen. Rep. 16 (name only). 
Victoria, Mount Emu C 
reek, Axe and Hopkins Rivers, F. Mue 
ime C. S. fam of a Lagoon near Mecwands Harbour, eae South Esk 
tuart 
2: occidentalis, near the longer-seaped speci- 
em of T. submersa, gei M Scapes filiform, about 1 in. 
ius. Leaves shorter and capillary. Head of the same size, but the 
Minis indar lano eolate or almost linear and acuminate. Flowers still 
uw ne rous and enitn hs ovaries and carpels narrower. Seed 
“oblong, about 1 5 line | 
W. Australia, Rie n. 689. 
2. APHELIA, R. Br. 
~ (Brizula, Hieron.) 
Wers unisexual or polygamous, sessile and solitary wi 
chons bracts, or 2 or pia Saaks usually males within = Dicet 
