14 LXIIl. STYLIDIE.^. [Slf/UJlim. 



times shortly proliferous at the base. Leaves all radical or iii a second tuft 

 at the end of the short stem, very narrow-linear, almost filiform^ obtuse or 

 acute, \ to 1 in. long, glabrous or sprinkled "with a few hairs. Scapes or 

 peduncles usually several, leafless, slender, 3 to 6 in. high, usually sprhikled 

 "With a few hairs at the base, the inflorescence glandular-pubescent. Flowers 

 very small, in loose, more or less corymbose panicles, all pedicellate. Calyx 

 a little more than 1 Hue long, the lobes short and obtuse, free or the 2 lower 

 ones united. Corolla "pink/' the tube longer than the calyx-lobes, the 

 lobes unequal, the throat with or without small appendages, the labelkun 

 without any. Capsule ovoid, 1 to 1-|- lines long. 



N- Australia. Gravelly banks of ihe Upper Victoria and Koper rivers, F, Mueller, 

 Queensland. Sources of Cape r-iver, Bowman, 



21. S. disperm-am, F. Mnell Fragm. iv. 93. Stock thick, crowned hy 

 a sort of hulb formed by the bases of old leaves. Leaves all radical, linear, 

 mucronate, ratlier ri^ad, 1 to 2 in. long, glabrous and smooth or with sca- 

 brous margins. Scapes glandular-pubescent, 4 to 6 in. high, leafless except 

 the bractSj branching from near the base into a broad, almost corymbose, 

 glandular-pubescent or villous panicle. Flowers shortly pedicellate^ very 

 suiall and numerous. Calyx-lobes free, as Ion"- as tlie tube. Corolla with 

 2 prominent, fringed, glandular appendages, which appear to be on each side 

 of the labellnm (in the. throat, F. Mueller). Capsule globular, about 1 line 

 diameter. Ovules 6 to 8 in each cell of the ovary, crowded near the top of 

 the dissepiment, but only 1 or 3 in each cell come to maturity. 



"W. Australia. Moist, gravelly places, Murchison river, Oldfeld, 



Series 4. Ani>kosace^. Slender annualsj with small, rosulate, radical 

 leaves, and few-flowered, loosely-corymbose panicles. Labellum long, 

 ascending. Stigma stipitate between the anthers. Capsule globular. 



22. S. calcaratmn, B. Br. ProcL 570. A slender annual, sprinkled 

 with glandular hairs, especially on the inflorescence. Leaves all radical, 

 rosulate, ovate or orbicular, 1 to 3 lines long, on short, slender petioles. 

 Scape usually 3 to 4 in. high, but sometimes not 1 in., simple and 1-tlowered 

 or !nore frequently branched at the top into a very loose, inTgular corymb 

 of 5 to 9 pink flowers, with small bracts under and sometimes on the 

 branches or long pedicels. Calyx-tube almost globular, about 1 line Ion J, 

 the lobes as long, free, oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube very short, produced 

 en the side opposite the labellum Into a slightly incurved spur, usunlly 

 nearly as long as the calyx-lobes, sometimes longer than them or very 

 short and reduced to a small protuberance. Corolla-lobes nearly eqnnl or 

 2 rather shorter; the labellum scarcely shorter, narrow, concave, ascending? 

 more or less denticulate at the end or rarely quite entire, and no appendages 

 to the throat. Stigma bearded and stipitate between the anthers. Capsule 

 nearly globular. — DC. Prod. vii. 335 ; Bauer, lUustr. 1. 15 ; S. androsaceurn, 

 Lindl. Swan Eiv. App. 29 ; S. Liudlef/amini, Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 390. 



Victoria. Grampians, F, Mueller. 



S. Australia. Near Echunga, F. Mueller, 



W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjohiing districts, R, Brown^ Oldjield, i^ 

 Mueller, and others, to Svvau Eiver; Drammond^ Ut Colh n. 511, 512. 513, 571, ^^^ 

 Coll. n. 279, 280 ; Preiss, n. 2245. 



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