Slylidium^ Lxni. stylidie-T. 



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scarious at tlie base. Scape 1 to 2 ft. long, glabrous below tlie inflorescence, 

 with a very few small scale-like leaves or brncts, tlie upper half occupied by 

 the slender, glanduliir-pubesccnt raceme. Flowers small, on sliort pedicels 

 or tlie lower ones 2 or 3 together on a short peduncle. Calyx, about 2 lines 

 long, the lobes free, lanceolate or linear, rather shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla '* Avhitish," the upper lobes nearly 3 lines long, the throat with suuill 

 glandular appendages, the labellum small, ending in a tine point, witliont 

 appendages at the base. Capsule nearly globular, \~ lines diameter.— DC. 

 Prod. vii. 333; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 370; S. leptostacJiyuni^ Lindl. Swan 

 Kiv. App, 28 ; Sond. I.e. 





^V. Australia. King George's Sound to Swan River, Jluegel^ Dnunmoud^ \si Coll. 

 n, 530 ; FreisSy n. 2233, 2234, Oldfield. The species has much of the aspect of S, diver- 

 sifolvoyij from which it differs in the presence of the scarious scales on the stock, in the less 

 hulbous appearance of the base of the leaves, aud iu the small leaves on the scape verj few 

 and not collected iu wliorls. 



2. S. pilosum, Lahilh PL Nov. HoU. ii. 63. L 213. Stock tufted, t\t 

 length thick but not proliferous, with lanceolate, scarions scales, 1 to 2 in, 

 long'j intermixed with the leaves. Leaves radical, broadly linear or lanceolate, 

 acute, nearly flat, of a firm consistence and glabrous, from 4 or 5 in. to 1 ft. 

 long, including the long petiole, which is not dilated at the base. Scapes 

 leafless, except the bracts, 1 to 2 ft. long, more or less clothed with long 

 spreading hairs, intermixed in the inflorescence with short glandular ones, 

 the upper moiety forming a long raceme, simple or shortly branched at the 

 base. Flowers rather large, all pedicellate. Calyx about 3 lines long ; 

 lobes shorter than the tube, free. Corolla-lobes 3 to 4 lines long, the throat 

 with clavate appendages; lahellum small, obtuse, with basal appendages. 

 Capsule ovoid, glaadular-villous, 4 to 6 lines long.- — R. Br. Prod. 567 ; DC. 

 Prod. vii. 332 ; Candollea pilosa^ Labill. in Ann. Mus. Par. vi. 453. t. 63 ; 



S. longlfollum^ 



Preiss, i. 371. 



>S'. plantaghieum, Sond. in PI. 



MT. Australia. Kiii^ George's Sound, Lahittardiere, R. Brown^ anJ others ; Preiss^ 

 «. 2298 ; Drummond, n. 79, ^nd ColL n. 263, ^tk ColL n, 350, also, perhaps, n. 351, in 

 which the raceme is shorter, hut it seems to belong to this rather than to S. rednplicatum. 



3. S, rednplicatum^ H, Br. Prod. oG8, Stock thicks rarely proliferous, 

 with broadiv lanceolate scarious scales round tlie leaves. Leaves all radical, 

 linear, acutely acuminate, narrowed into a long petiole not dilated at the 

 base, from ratlier Lroad and nearly flat to very narrow with revolute margins, 

 glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent, 3 or 4- in. to nearly 1 ft. long. 

 Scapes leafless, ^ to 1 ft. or rarely 1^ ft. long, with, more or less of spread- 

 ing hairs intermixed on tlie inflorescence witli glandular pubescence. 

 Flowers oiS.filomm but usually larger, of a yellowish-white or pale pink, in 

 a short loose raceme, sometimes reduced to 3 or 4 flowers, the lower ones on 

 long pedicels, sometimes numerous in a shortly pyramidal or almost corymbose 

 panicle. Calyx of S. pilosiun. Corolla-lobes more unequal, the 2 larger 

 ones from 6 to 9 lines long, connate to the middle. Capsule ovoid, usually 

 much smaller than in S, pilosum (3 to 3 lines long).— DC. Prod. vii. 332 ; 

 S. scJicenoides, DC. Prod. vii. 782; Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 372; S. Itbeijy- 

 num, DC. Prod. vii. 783 ; >S. carmjoliim, Lindl. Swan Eiv. App. 2S ; Sond. 



