Aphelia. | CXLI. CENTROLEPIDES. 201 
scarcely 13 lines broad. Bracts lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, 
ciliate on tke margins but not keeled and glabrous on the back, the 2 
lower ones scarcely different from the others, each with 2 or 3 male 
owers of 1 stamen each with a narrow scale; the other bracts (12 or 
more) with 1 female flower each, with a very small scale. 
W. Australia, Drummond, suppl. n. 84. 
3. A. gracilis, Sond. in Linnea, xxviii. 227:—Scapes i to 1 in. 
high. Leaves as long. Spike ovate, about 2 lines long, the lowest 
W long scale amen; the cther bracts 5 to 9, ovate, 
thinly scarious, more or less hirsute, enclosing each a single ovary, 
without any scale or the scale ve e and redu to a 
notch on the receptacle.—F. Muell. Fragm. v. 204; Brizula gracilis, 
Hieron. Centrol. 92 ; 4. Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 75, t. 138. 
^ Victoria. Darebin Creek, F. Mueller ; Skipton, Whan ; near Mount William, 
wiwan. 
asmania. Formosa, Gunn; South Esk River, F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Onkaparinga, F. Mueller. 
but narrower than in A. pumilio, the dorsal keel scariously 
dentieulate, each enclosing a single ovary in a rather broad 
seale.— Brizula Drummondii, Hieron. Centrol. 92. 
W. Australia, Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. and n. 933; Tone and Vasse 
Rivers, Oldfield, 
8 5 A. pumilio, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxviii. 226, Fragm. v. 204.— 
Pr alt to $ in. high and leaves not longer. Spike erect, broadly 
„us Margins, acuminate, containing usually 2 male flowers, each of 
10 ee stamen enclosed at the base in an oblong scale ; upper bracts 
» to 16, complieate, scarious, with short appressed hairs, the margins 
= ag dilated and rounded at the base, each containing one ovary en- 
[em m a broad complicate scarious scale.— Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 76 ; 
"zula pumilio, Hieron. Centrol. 93. 
lang toria, Lower Yarra and neighbourhood, F, Mueller and many others; Vort- 
Alit ; Live Vale, Robertson. : = ind 
Tasmania, eshunt, Archer (I have not seen this specimen). 
S. Australis. Mount Gambier, Rivoli Bay, F. Mueller. 
