Centrolepis.] CXLI. CENTROLEPIDEX. 208 
Pepe. a brag about 4 in. Outer bracts with a 
About 2i inner scales, Carpels 6 to 
i 6. C. muscoides. 
Scape and leaves under ii in. Outer bracts scarcely 
acuminate. An inner scale. Carpel 1 . . . 7. C. monogyna. 
Spikes ovate or broad, containing more than 4 flowers, 
the outer brac a 
flower, usually ve ed prominen 
mad de scapes $ to $ in. Flowers 4 to 6in the 
Carpels us ually fewer than 6. Southern plant. . 8. C. 
Carpels usually more than 6. Tropical plant . 9. C. p 
a ay i l to 2 in. Flowers 4 or more in each 
pulvinata. 
usilla. 
Outer e with long leafy points. Carpels usually 
outhern and western species 10. C. aristata. 
ese ricis Metis e uminate. —- usually 
Southern and sequi specie . 11. C. Drummondiü. 
Outer [at scarcely poin Flowers numerous. 
Spik Carpels 10 to 20, Propioa] speci 12. €. Banksii. 
Pikes usually ovate or broad, the er bracts hispid 
0 With long spreading hairs. Inner scales t ps rominent. 
uter bracts scarcely BS msg o wi ith à wns usually 
Carpels usually 3. Styles free or nearly so 0, poco 
0 arpels 6 or more. Styles uni ited to above Che middle, Hi; C. pilos 
uter bracts spreading with short points 
Carpels abo d 6. Mri kn mia: species - 15. C. strigosa. 
Carpels m s . Flowers very numerous. 
Hiero Topical s Spec . 16. C, exserta. 
Par is s, Centrol, E retains drug name of Air um for the New Zealand A. 
piam, ww £., which I think Hooker had more correctly at first published as a 
rdia of wh ich it has the characteristic habit, and from which it espe sere: in 
ls of Centrolepis which I do no find, the ovary is not lobed but 2- to 4-ccllod 
with 2 to 4 styles. "The c apsule i 
. ein G. australis opens loculicidally in 2 valves; in G. 
pallida Y found it 1-celled ad l-seeded by a peti ace : 
bated” humillima, F. Mue ie Herb.—A minute moss-like densely 
d plant, quite glabrou Seapes scarcely any within a few 
recurved leaves, bee 3 lines long, with broad a 
Fi 
irs one only, almost sessile within the leaves, rather broadly linear 
closely embracing the flower, tapering into a recurved point not 
"Iceeding the leaves. Flower 1 o only, with a scarious complicate scale 
"PPosed to the bract and ne the stamen. Ovary of 3 or 4 
Fee the styles united at 
W. Australia, Salt lagoons north of Stirling Range, F. Mueller. 
une Polygyna, Hieron. Centrol. 96.—Though slender and some- 
Lea Very small this species is more rigid than its nearest allies. 
oie capillary, usually in t 
kae about 1 in. long, though oceasionally more than twice or 
oy halt as much, of a Poder dui colour as well as the floral 
