S/l/Udium.] ■ LXIII. STYLTDIE.E. 9 



appendages to the tliroat opposite the larger lobes, and very small ones 

 opposite to the smaller lobes; labclliim liiieardanccolate, with a feu ghui- 

 dular hairs. Ovary 1-celIed, ^vitU several ovules on a short, basal placenta. 



\^. Australia, Bnnnmond. 



Series 2. Pelttger.e.— Stock tufted or proliferous-braiu^hed. Leaves 

 radical, linear. Flowers in dense spikes or clusters, the bracts numerous, 

 and more or less produced below their insertion into a slvort spur or 

 appendage. 



7. S. junceum, R, Br. Prod. 5C9. Quite glabrous or with a very few 

 glandular hairs on the ovaiy. Stock at length thick and almost Moody. 

 Leaves radical, linear, acute, 1 to 1^ in. long, sometimes all withered away 

 at the time of flowering. Stem or scape erect and rush-like, and \ to \ ft. 

 high, or more or less iiexuose or twining, and then lengthening to 2 or 3 ft- 

 or more, leafless except the bracts. Flowers small, nearly sessile in a short, 

 dense, spike-like raceme. Bracts lanceolate, acute, with scarious margins, 

 produced at the base below their insertion, imbricate before flowering. Calyx- 

 lobes narrow and very acute, all free. Corolhi white, pink or pale yellow, 

 "witli small, glandular appetidages to the throat, the labellum lanceolate, 

 "Witliout appendages. Capsule ovoid, the calyx-lobes more decidnous than ia 

 most species, and with a prominent rib on each, side at the suture of the 

 valves. — DC. Prod. vii. 33i; Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 377; S. scariosum, DC, 

 Prod. vii. 783. 



W^. Australia. In very wet places common from King; George's Sound to Swnn 

 Eivcr, i?. Brown, Huegel, and others, Brummoiid, lat CoIL ?/. 539, "^rd Coll. n. 170, aiso 

 26, 41, 132j and in some sets 171, Freiss, n, 2264, To the eastward, near Lake Leven, 

 MaxiceU^ tliesespeciinens more elongated and turning, with rather larger flowers than any 

 others, although some of Bnimmond's are nearly as much so. 



8. S. guttatum, R. Br, Prod. 571- Quite glabrous, except a few 

 glandular hairs on the inflorescence. Stock tufted or very shortly proli- 

 ferous. Leaves all radical, narrow-linear, acute or obtuse, |^ to 1 in. long. 

 Scape \\ to 2 in. long, leafless below the inflorescence, bearing a cluster or 

 head of sessile flowers surrounded by nnd intermixed with numerous oblong- 

 linear, leaf-like bracts, which are shorter than the calyx-tube, and shortly 

 produced at the base below their insertion. Calyx about 2| lines long, the 

 lobes free, rather acute, as long as the tube. Corolla with appendages to 

 the throat and to the very narrow, acute labellum. Capsule narrow-oblong, 

 contracted at the top, about 2 lines long, but not seen quite ripe, and then 

 perhaps broader. — DC. Prod. vii. 33G ; Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 387; S. an- 

 drosaceuniy DC. Prod. 783. 



"Wr. Australia. From King George's Sound, B. Brown and others, to Vasse river, 

 Preiss, n. 2243, and Swan River, Brummond, \st CoIL n. 540, also «. 33 and 40, and 

 eastward to Cape Arid, MaxwelL 



9. S. repeus, Tl, Br. Prod, 571. Quite glabrous. Stock forming very 

 I slender proliferous branches, nnd often rooting at the tufts. Leaves at the 



base and ends of the branches densely tufted, linear, acute, under \ In. Ion?, 

 with a few also scattered alon;^ the branches, the floral ones or nearly all 



