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LXUI. STYLIDIE.E. \_Slylidiam. 



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1. c. 372 : S. pilosum, Sond. I. c. 371 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1 S42, t. 41, not of 

 LabilL; ^S'. offine, Sond. I.e. 371; S. Brmmnondii, Grah. in Edinl). New 

 PIiiL Journ. xxx. 208, and in Maund. Botanist, v. t. 213. 



"W- Australia. From King George's Somid to Swan Eiver, Baxter, Collie, Oldfiehl, 

 Freiss, n. 22^1, 2292, Briimmond, n. 7, 525, 526, 2nd Coll, n. 276 ; and eastward to 

 Luclcy Bay, R. Brown ; and Cape Le Grand and Cape Arid, MaxwelL—'Vht Swan Elver 

 specimens are usually larger, and hare often broader and flatter leaves ; those, from the 

 eastern drier parts of the area are nsually smaller, with narrower, more revolute, almost 

 terete leaves, and fewer larger flowers, Lut exceptions are found to both. In some eastern 

 specimens there is a tendency to prolifieation of the stock. Some of the smaller specimens, 

 ■when reduced to very few llowcrSj have almost the aspect of S. hirsidnm, but with much 

 larger flowers. 



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4. S. scabriduin, LhidL Swan Biv, App. 28. Very closely allied to 



tlie pubescent forn:is of S, reduplicatam^ and perhaps a variety of that species. 

 It is a smaller plant, the leaves rarely above 3 in. long, with shorter points 

 and always pubescent; the scape sometimes not exceeding the leaves, rarely 

 twice as long, with a loosely corymbose panicle, the pedicels and calyxes 

 often very hirsute, the bracts and calyx-lobes narrow-linear or subulate ; the 

 flowers smaller than iu 8. redapUcatum, aud the capsule shorter. — Sond. in 

 PL Preiss. i. 372 ; S. laxiflorum, DC. Prod. vii. 782 ; S. leptocahjx, Sond. iu 

 PL Preiss. i. 373. 



"W". Australia. Swan River, Brimwond, 1st Coll. n, 532, 533; Princess Eoyal 

 Harbour, Preiss, n. 2289 {So7ider) ; also Drmnmond^ n. 402, 



5. S. hirsutum, R. Br. Prod. 568. Stock tufted, not so thick as in 



S. rednplicatum, with narrow-lanceolate, scarious scales amongst the leaves. 

 Leaves narrow-linear, acutely acuminate, sometimes all under 2 in., some- 

 times 6 to 8 in, long, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Scapes 6 in. to 

 above 1 ft. high, leafless, with spreading hairs often intermixed on the inflo- 

 rescence with glandular pubescence. Flowers nearly sessile, forming a dense, 

 oblong, spike-like raceme, rarely above 1 in. long atid very hairy- Calyx 

 about 3^ lines long, the lobes free or the 2 lower broader ones united at the 

 base. Corolla pink or red, the larger lobes nearly equal, the throat appen- 

 dages conspicuous ; labellum lanceolate, with crisped margins and short 

 appendages or sometimes none. Capsule ovoid, from 3 to 4 lines long. 

 DC. Prod. viL 332; Sond. in PL Preiss. L 372 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3194. 



V/, Australia. Kin^r George's Sound nnd adjoining districts, i?. Brown and olhen, 

 Dr7i7nmond, n. 113, Zrd CoiL n. 166, Wi (7^//. 353 (or 339?), Preiss, 7U 22W; also Swan 

 Kiver, Drummond^ 1st ColL 



6. S. crossoceplialura, F. Mnell. Frafjm, vi. 5. Stock tufted, with a 

 few long lanceolate scales intermixed witli the leaves, cither entirely scarious 

 or with a leaf-like centre. Leaves radical, narrow-linear, acute or almost 

 obtuse, scabrous-pubescent like those of S. ^cabridam, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 in. 

 long. Scapes simple aud leafless, quite glabrous, longer than the leaves. 

 Plowers sessile, in a short, dense, depressed head, surrounded by lanceolate- 

 acuminate bracts, about \ in. long, very tiue-poiuted, with ruthci' broad, 

 scarious, slightly-ciiiate margins. Flowers only seen in bud, and then not 

 so long as the bracts. Calyx-lobes linear, acuminate, with scarious margins, 

 the 2 lower ones united to the middle, the others free. Corolla w^ith broad 



