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leafless except the minute bracts. Flowers small, on slender pedicels. Calyx 

 scarcely 2 lines long, the lobes free, narrow and very small. Corolla scarcely 

 twice as long as the calyx-lobes ; the labellnm with 2 small appendages, but 

 none to the throat. Capsule oblong- clavate, 2 lines loug. — DC. Prod. vii. 

 33ii F. MuelL Fragra. i. 148. 



W. Australia, Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R, Brawn ; moist, shady places 

 at the sources of Weutworth river, and near M'Adam range, F, Mueller. 



leptorhizuxn 



Apparently annual, 



but the slender stem sometimes 1 to 3 in. long, bearing a few leaves below 

 the terminal tuft or rosette, qnite glabrous as well as the leaves, or sprinkled 

 with a few short glandular hairs. Leaves rosulate, from oblanceolate to ob- 

 ovate or spathulate, obtuse or mncronate-acute, thin and membranous, often 

 almost glaucous, ^ to 1 or rarely 2 in. long, including the petiole. Scape 

 slender, leafless, except the minute bracts, from 2 or 3 in, to 1-|- ft. long, 

 glabrous or glandular hairy. Flowers small, in a slender, very loosely- 

 branched panicle or raceme along its branches, with or without one in the 

 fork, all on rather long slender pedicels without bracteoles. Calyx-lobes free, 

 narrow and small. Corolla-lobes unequal (the 2 uppermost more united ?), 

 the labellnm with 2 appendages, but none to the throat, or, according to F. 

 Mueller, the appendages to the throat and not to the labellnm. Capsule ob- 

 long-clavate, 2 lines long. — S, semi^artitum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 147. 



Tff, Australia. Grevillc's Island, Regent river, N. Coast, A. Cunnivgliam (ia Herb. 

 R. Br.) ; dry pastures ou the Victoria river aud between M'Adam Range and Providence 

 Hillj F, Mueller; Port Essington, ArmstrOTig. The glandular hairs on the staminal 

 column mentioned by T. ^lueller appear to be very inconstant, sometimes rather copious, 

 sometimes very few or none. 



Var. pilosrnn. Leaves, scapes and inflorescence glandular-hairy. — Van Diemen's Gulf, 

 N.W. Coast, A, Cunning Jiam, 



. 28. S. assimile^ R. Br, Prod. 569. Glabrous, except the glandular 

 pubescent inflorescence. Stock tnfted, rather thick. Leaves all radical, 

 oblong-spathulate to almost linear, very obtuse, thick and turning black 

 when dry, often glaucous underneath. Scapes solitary or several together, 

 from 3 or 4 in. to nearly 1 ft, high, divided from below the middle into a 

 loose, pyramidal panicle. Flowers small. Calyx-lobes free. Corolla "with 

 appendages to the labellnm but none to the throat." Capsule ovoid, rather 

 narrow.— DC. Prod. vii. 333; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 377. 



%V. Australia, King Geor;?e's Sound and adjoining districts, 7?. Brown and others, 

 Brummondj ^t/i Coll, n. 346 a7id SappL n, 80, Freiss, n. 2272 ; ritzgeralJ Ranges, Espe- 

 rance Bay, and Cape Paisley, MaxwelL 



29, S. rupestre, Sond. in PL Pre'm. i. 373. Very closely allied to 



S, spathidatumy with the same pubescent, spathulate leaves, simple inflores- 

 cence and flowers, but the stock is always proliferous-branched, the leaves 

 much smaller, not exceeding \ in. in length, in dense, rosulate, terminal 

 tufts, and the racemes very loose, usually reduced to 2 or 3 flowers on long 

 pedicels. — S, glaucum^ E. Br. Prod. 5G9, not of LabilL; S, glauaan, P^^ 

 Browiieiy DC. Prod. vii. 334; S. Lehmanniajium, Sond. in PI. Preiss. i. 375- 



"W. Australia. King George's Sound, Baj-fer, Preiss, n, 2261, azid eastivard to Ct^V^ 

 Biche, Preiss, n, 2262, Drummond^ blh Coll. n. 352 ; Lucky Bay, R. BrowJi ; Cape Arid 





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