S/7/lidiim,] LXiii. styltdie^. 21 



dular-pubescent. Panicles terminal, loosely branclied, copiously glandular- 

 pubescent, pedunculate or the lower branches proceeding from the base. 

 Pedicels short. Calyx-lobes shorter than the ovary, free or shortly united in 

 2 lips. Corolla without appendages to the throat, but with linear ones to 

 the labellum. Epigynous glands more prominent than in most species. 

 Capsule ovoid, rather narrow, nearly 3 lines long. — S, fruticosKm, R. Br. 

 Prod. 570; DC. Prod. vii. 335. 



IV. Australia. Lucky Bay, Brown, Baxter, 



folium 



An undcrshrub "svith 



elongated leafy branches, rarely exceeding 1 ft. wnthout the inflorescence, 

 quite glabrous or the inflorescence sparingly glandular-pubescent, and some- 

 times a few hairs sprinkled on the foliage. Leaves scattered but rather 

 crowded along the branches, not collected in terminal tufts, narrow-linear, 

 mncronate, usually ^ to 1 in. long, not leaving the adnate bases of those of 

 S. glandulosum. Panicle or raceme loose, pedunculate, often above 6 in. 

 long. Pedicels longer and the ovary more attenuate at both ends than in S. 

 glandulo^mn. Calyx-lobes free, shorter than the ovary. Corolla with 

 appendages to the labellum, but usually without any to the throat. Capside 

 oblong-turbinate, 4 to 6 lines long. — DC. Prod. Vii. 335 ; Juss. in Ann. 

 Mus. Par. xviii. 19. t. 3 ; Hook. Exot. PI. t. 32 ; Bot. Reg. t. 550 ; S. 



tmnifolmm, E. Br. Prod. 570; Link et Otto, Pi. Sel. t. 26; Bot. Mag. t. 

 2249. 



W. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue ;^^ountains, B. Brown^ Sieher, n.Yl2, aud 

 others; northward to New Eugland. C, Stuart; southward to \M^\\^vv%^kep7terT; the 

 latter luxuriant specimens with leaves 1 to 2 in. long. 



Sekies 9. Imbuicat.e. Stems slender, branching but hard, covered 

 with small imbricate, almost scale-like leaves, not collected in terminal or 

 radical tufts. 



44. S. Preissii, F. MnelL Fragm, iii. 132. Stems simple or dichoto- 

 inously brauchcd, often flexuose, rarely above 3 in. high, completely covered 

 with the closely-imbricated, scale-like leaves. These are ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, I to f line long, with broad scarious, more or less ciliate margins and 

 tips. Flowers 2 to 4, sessile within the last leaves, surrounded by scarious 

 transparent bracts. Calyx 1^ lines long, the lobes broad and very obtuse, 

 ^uch longer than the tube, free or nearly so, but very much imbricate, the 

 ends scarious and streaked with red. Corolla-tube shorter than tlie calyx- 

 jobes, the throat without appendages, but the labellum fringed with long 

 ^airs. Capsule not seen, — Forsteropsis Preissli, Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 393. 



W. Australia, Brnmmond, Wi ColL ?2. 347 ; Cape Riche, Preiss, n. 438 ; from the 

 -t^itzgerald Range to Cape le Grand, Maxwell This and the two following species have a 

 ,^«T peculiar habit, and Sonder proposed the present one as a distinct genns, characterizing 

 It by the ovary and capsule 1-ceIled, with a central placenta. The ovary appears to me, 

 however, to be in fact 2-celled, but the very thin dissepiment splits very readily on each side 

 of the placenta, which is thus left free as the capsule dries, but this is the ciise with several 

 other Stfflidia; and the structure of the flowers, as well as of the fruit of Forsteropm, ap- 

 pear to mc to be entirely those of Stfflidium, 



■^^' S, imbricatxun, Benth. in Kueg, Enum. 73. Stems hard but 



