206 OXLI. CENTROLEPIDER. [ Centrolepis. 
close together and glabrous as in that species but somewhat epic 
owers 
0. C. aristata, Rem. et Schult. Syst. i. 44.--Leaves linear, some 
times "e short and fine isin often a - of them nearly 5 line broad 
or by the side of each arn with a few apparently additional ones. 
Carpels of the ovary few, varying from 3 or 4 to 6 or 7.—Hook. f. 1) 
Tasm. S s 6, t. 138 ; Hieron. cons 99; Desvaucia aristata, R. pr. 
Prod. 2 
Certe Sree tson, ves ER -— rA William, Sulli wan. id 
Abun in soil near Georgetown and Launceston, 
day i “South — River, n St Shs 
ao anie, Bugle Range, etc. F. Mueller d 
"tecto dh g George's Sound, R. Brown, F. Mueller and others; à? 
SR m Swan River, Drums, Oldfield. 
Var? pygmea, F. Muell. A little bres wind pre plant of 3 in. m 
flowers or none at all in the lower bract and 2 or 3 in the upper el but inte temi C 
with hyaline scales as in the ic ve 0. erit connecting this pocas th- 
alepyroides to which perhaps the present variety is more aptly referrible.— " 
port, Tasmania, Story. 
Hn. œ. Drummon dii, Hieron. Centrol. 98.--Leaves very fine 
mostly about i in. Seapes capillary, 1 to 2 in. high. Spike oblong. 
glabrous. Floral bracts oe about 2 lines wat shortly acumina 4 
rs 
. a . SS 
pulchra, Hieron. Centrol. Descauzia Urvillei, Steud. Syn. P. 
‘Glam. ii. 267; Centrolepis Crt, Hieron: Centrol. 100. 
W. Australia. King George's Soun n River, dpt. ist coll. and ™ 
930; Preiss, n. 1809, D' Urville, F aites, pes 4, Muir and o 
Desvauxia brevifolia, Nees in PI. po ii. 70 (eiiis pu Hie yr 
Centrol. 98), from King George's So woes n. 1749, which I mper 
from Nees's description as corrected by H bisnien iie £ from C. 
mondi. 
