6 Lxiir. STYLIDIE.E. \Stylidium 



Leaves very small, narrow. Flowers pedicellate .... 55. S. Irachyphyllum. 



(See also 77. /Sf. bulbiferum and 78. S. breviscapum, whicli tave the infloresceace some- 

 times almost corymbose^ but a proliferous-branched stock.) 



Seuies XIL Thyrsiformes. — Terennials with a tufted or prollferous-hranched doch 

 or stem, with radical or terminal tufts of leaves. Flowers in an ohlong or elonfjated 

 ihjr sold panicle or raceme. 



Stock hard, at length horizontal. Leaves radical^ elongated, thick, 



oblaiiceolatc or spathulate. 

 Scape 1 to 2 ft. high, glabrous at the base. Inflorescence long 



and narrow. Capsule 5 to 8 lines long .- 71. ^. crassfoUuM. 



Scape 4 to 1 ft., glandular-pubescent or villous. Inflorescence 



thyrsoid. Capsule 9 to 10 lines long ^2. S. pyowstachf/im. 



Stock tufted. Leaves linear. 



Leaves rather broad, with a very fine joint. Inflorescence glan- 

 dular-pubescent. Capsale 4 to 6 lines long 73. S, ptihlr/emm. 



Leaves narrow -liaear, obtuse or shortly pointed. 



Inflorescence nearly glabrous. Capsule 3 lines long • . . 74. S, canaUculalam. 

 Inflorescence glandular-pubescent or villous. Capsule 4 to 6 



lines 75. 5'. leptopJi^Uiat^- 



Stock or stem proliferous-branched. Leaves narrow-linear. 



Inflorescence thyrsoid, many-flowered. Upper leaves 1 in. long 



or more 76. S. dichotomum. 



Inflorescence short, few-flowered or compact. Leaves under 

 ^ in. long. 

 Flowers few, loosely racemose. Capsule long, linear . • . 77- S. hnlhiferum. 

 Flowers in a compact cluster. Capsule lanceolate -linear . , 78- S, dreviseapum. 



Inflorescence narrow-racemose. Branches of the stem slender. 



Leaf-tufts woolly at the base 70. 5, ef/Jandulosmn.' 



Sect. III. Rhyncliauginm. — Capsule lanceolate or linear^ contracted into a slender 

 beak. Peretinials. Leaves linear^ scattered along the stemy the upper ones usualhj 

 forming a termbiaX tuft. 



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Both cells of the capsule equal and fertile 80. S» fascicitlatum. 



Upper cell of the capsule scarcely half as broad as the more per- 

 fect one. Capsule much falcate. Raceme usually simple. 

 Raceme several inches long. Beak of the capsule short . , .81. S.falcatum. 

 Raceme sessile, scarcely exceeding the leaves* Beak of the 



capsule long 82. S. rhgnchocarpum^ 



Upper cell of the capsule reduced to a filiform rib . . • . . 83. S. adnatunu 



(52. S.fissilohum, a slender annual^ with very small leaves, has also the linear capsule 

 more or less distinctly beaked.) 



Sect. I. ToLYrA>;Giuii, EadL — Capsule globular, ovoid, obovoid or 



oblong. 





Series 1. ^Sqitamos^e. — Stock tufted, very rarely proliferous, tlie radical 

 leaves lulermixed with lanceolate, scarious scales, often enclosing tlie young 

 shoots, and which appear to be abortive petioles. Scapes leafless or with 

 a few small, scattered bracts. 



1. S. camosum, Benth, in Hiiefj, Bium. 71- Stock tufted, at length 

 thick, but not proliferous, with a few liuear-lanceolate, acumiuatc, scarioiis 

 scales both ontside and inside the leaves. Leaves all radical, from obovate 

 to narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, rather thick and glabrous, from \ in. to above 

 1 in, long, besides the long petiole, which is more or less dilated and 



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