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sliortly produced at tlie base below their insertion, and often with scarious 



Flowers small, intermixed with the leaves or bracts of the ter- 



margins. 



mlnal tufts, on slender pedicels of 2 to 4 lines. Calyx -lobes free, very acute. 

 Corolla red or white, with appendages to the labellnm and not to the throat 

 in the specimens examined, but just the contrary as observed by Brown. 

 Capsule narrow ovate, 1 line long.— 

 in PL Preiss. i. 381. 



DC. Prod. vii. 336 j S. radlca?is, Soud. 



■ "^V. Australia. King George's Sound, 7?. Brown and others, to Swan River, Preiss^ n, 

 2290, 2300, aUo Brummond, %id ColL n. 272, 273, Zrd ColL n, 171. 



SEraEs 



3, LiNEARES. — Leaves linear or rarely linear-lanceolate, all 

 radical or in a tuft at the end of a short, proliferous stem, without iuter- 

 mixture of scarious scales. Scape leafless, except the small bracts of the 

 inflorescence, and sometimes a very fevr, small, bract-like leaves scattered 

 below the inflorescence. 



10, S. graminifolium, Sicartz ; DO. Prod. vii. 333. Glabrous or 

 nearly so, except the glandular-pubescent inflorescence. Stock tufted or 

 shortly proliferous, rarely lengthening to 4 or 5 in. Leaves linear, rather rigid, 

 acute or obtuse, nearly flat, varying much in breadth, the margins entire or 

 with minute, cartilaginous denticulations, dilated and more or less scarious 

 at the base, sometimes not exceeding 2 in., in luxuriant specimens 6 to 9 iO' 

 long. Scapes from |- to 1^ ft., the upper -J to |- occupied by a narrow, 

 simple raceme or interrupted spike. Bracts small. Flowers nearly sessile 

 or shortly pedicellate. Calyx 3 or 1 lines long, the lobes broad and obtuse, 

 nuited nearly to the top into two lips. Corolla-lobes nearly equal, the 

 labellum rather long, obtuse, the appendages variable. Capsule ovoid- 

 oblong, i to nearly \ in. long.— 11. Br. Prod. 568 ; Labill. PL Nov. HoU. ii. 65. 

 t. 215; Hoolc. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 235 ; Bot. Reg. t. 90; Bot. Mag. t. 1918; 

 Candollea ^ernilatn^ Labill. in Ann. Mus. Par. vi. 454. t, 64; Shjlldmi^ 

 serrulatnm, Rich, in Pers. Syn. ii. 210 ; Veutemtla major ^ Sm. Exot. Bot. ii* 

 13. t. 66; jS". canaViculalum^ Poir. Diet. Suppl. v. 413. 



Queensland, Moretou Bay, A. Cunmngham. 



N. S. Wales. Common in grassy lands Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R, Brown^ 

 Sieher^, 253, and others; northward to Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; ^e^^' 

 EnglanT, CT^tuart ; and southward to lUawarra and Twofold !?ay, A. Cannhiyhanu 



Victoria, rrom Port Phillip to the Australian Alps, F. Mueller and others ; Portlau4 

 Allitt ; Glenelg river, Robertson ; Wimmera, Pallachy. 



Tasmania. Very ahuudaut throughout the colony, from the level of the sea to afl 

 elevation of 4000 ft., J. B. Hooker, 



S. Australia. Port Adelaide, Blandovjsli/ ; foot of ilount Barker, Whiilaher ; Iof*7 

 Range, F. Mueller. 



_^^ S. armeria, Lahill. PL Nov. floll. li. G6. t. 216 ; DC. Prod. vii. 333 ; Lem. Jard. Fleur. 

 ill. t. 286 ; Candollea armeria, Lahill. in Ann. Mas. Far. vi. 455, is the same plant with 

 rather hroader leaves, S. 7nelastacht/s, R. Rr. Prod. 568 ; DC. 1. c. 333, separated at first 

 on account of the leaves being almost entirely \vIthout the minute denticulations, is uofdis- 

 tinguishable even as a variety, the leaves varying in this respect on the same specimen. 



S, mnbellatum, Labill. PL Nov. Hull. ii. GG. t. 217; DC. Prod. vii. 332 ; CandoU^^ 

 7m5ella(a,LD}nll in Ann. Mus. Pai*. vi. 456; S, pohjstachjum. Rich, in Pers. Syn. ii. 210, 

 is probably, as suggested in Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. i. 235, an accideatal monstrosity of 

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