13 Lxni. STYLiDiE^E. [Sffflidium. 



1 to IJ in. long, more crowded and spreading than in >S'. violaceum, broader 

 and flatter than iu S. spinulosum. Scapes slender, 6 in. to nearly 1 ft. liigli, 

 the raceme loose, mostly simple, but tlie pedicels bracteate at or above the 

 middle, and sometimes 2- or 3-flowcred. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes free, 

 obtnse. Corolla "yellow or nearly wliite," the ]ab<dlum witli appendages, 

 the throat usually w*ithont. Capsule ovoid, in the ordinary form 2 lines long. 

 —DC. Prod. vii. 333 ; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 373. 



"W. Australia. King Georg^e's Sound and adjoiniu"; districts, R. Broivn^ A. Ciinmvj- 

 hmn^ and others, Preiss, n. 2275 ; Brummond, n. 46, 49, 120, 132j 3r^ ColL n. IGS. 



Var. ? snhhdhosum. Stock thicker, almost bulbous from the persistent bases of old 

 leaves. Leaves usually ciliate, with a few long glandular hairs. Raceme more stout. 

 Capsule ovoid-oblong, 3 lines long. Swau River, Drummond, \st ColL aud Zrd ColL «. 

 172. S, squameUositm, DC. Prod. vii. 782, Sond. iu PI. Preiss. i. 377, is probably this 



variety. 



This and the two following species, which may be really very distinct and readily recog- 

 nized in the fresh, state by the colour aud form of the corolla, are very difficult to charac- 

 terize from dried specimens. 



15. S. violaceum, R, Bi\ Prod. 569. Quite glabrous or with a fe\v 

 glandular iiairs ou the calyx and pedicels. Stock simple or tufted, but more 

 slender than in S. Cfjesjntomm, and somelimes proliferous or slightly elongated 

 below the terminal tuft. Leaves narrow-linear, obtuse or rather acute, but 

 without fine points, erect or sliglitly spreading, 1 to 2 in. long. Scape often 

 above 1 ft. long, with or rarely without small, scattered, bract-like leave?. 

 Haceme loose, 2 to 6 in. long, simple or compound, the peduncles bearing 

 above the middle a small bract, and somelimes 2 or 3 pedicellate flowers. 

 Flowers small, violet-purple or rarely "variegated or yellow" (Prem). 

 Calyx-lobes free, as long as the tube. Corolla with small appendages to the 

 throat, but none to the labellum, Capsnle small, ovoid-globular. — DC 

 Prod. vii. 334 ; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 377 ; Bauer, lUustr. t. 5. 



"W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, S, Broicn aud many 

 otlicrs, Drammond^ %rd ColL n. 173, 174, 175, and Suppl. n, 79, 81, 82. It is possible 

 that the specimens said fo have varie<^atcd flowers may be hybrids. 



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16. S. luteum, 7?. Br, Prod. 5 70. Verj' near S, tWr/c^zm, with nearly 

 the same habit and foliage, but rather more slender, and the inflorescence 

 and sometimes also the base of the scapes and foliage more or less glandulur- 

 pubescent; the minnte leaves on the scape sometimes but not always col- 

 lected into 1 or 2 miimte whorls, thns connecting this series with the next, 

 £he flowers yellow and sometimes rather larger than in S, violaceum, the cap- 



sule also larger and glandular-villous.— DC. Prod. vii. 334. 



"W. Australia. King George's Sound, i?. Brown, M'Lean, Brummond, n. 112, ^• 

 Mueller. "When the minute tvhorled leaves on the scape are present, this species may ^^ 

 distinguished from S. amremfm by the nnrroiv leaver, from S.Bnuiouianum by the uiinute- 

 ness of the whorl. It will, however, probably prove to be not specifically distinct from S- 

 violaceum, and possibly the larger-fruited specimens wliich I have here included, may be 

 rather referable to 5*. c(Tspi(osnm, but the limits of this species can only be determined by 

 the csauiiuation of fresh flowers. 



17. S. piliferum, 7?. Br. Prod, 569. Glahrons or with short glandu- 

 lar hairs on the inflorescence, and sometimes on the margins of the leaves. 

 Stock tufted, not proliferous. Leaves all radical in a dense tuft, which is 



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