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slender, simple or branched, erect or flexuose, \ to 1^ ft, high, entirely 

 covered with closely-imbricated, scale-like leaves. These are ovate, mucro- 

 nate or aristate, witli more or less scarious margins, ^ to 1 line long, the 1 

 upper ones narrower and more acuminate. Eaceme terminal, sessile, simple | 

 or scarcely compound, i to 1 in. long ; the almost sessile flowers intermixed ' 

 with scale-like bracts similar to the leaves, but more acuminate, wdth usually 

 a few woolly hairs on the rhachis and a few glandular ones on the calyx. 

 Calyx 1^ lines long ; the lobes obtuse, free or nearly so, rather longer_ than^ 

 the tube. Corolla-tube longer than the calvx-lobes, but not always twice as 

 long ;' the throat with small appendages ; the labellum ciliate. Capsule ap- 1 

 parently ovoid, but not seen ripe. — DC. Prod. vii. 337- ^ 



^V_ Australia. Kibg George's Sound, 'BaxieryHuegel^ towards Cape Riche, TZ^rr^, 

 MaxwelL 



46. S. adpressum, BentJi. Stems simple or slightly branched, in our 

 specimens 2 to 3 in. high, covered with the small imbricate leaves. These 

 are lanceolate, concave or triangular, rigid, acute or mucronate, about 1 hi^^ 

 long, glabrous or scarcely ciliate, less closely ap pressed than in the preceding 

 . two species. Peduncles terminal, glandular-hairy, 2 to 3 lines long, bearing 

 a short compact raceme or head of 3 to 6 small flowers, surroimded by ale\i^ 

 small rigid bracts. Calyx glandular-hispid, the lobes acute, free or nearly 

 so, rather longer than the tube. Corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx-lobes, 

 the appendages apparently as in S, imbricatam^ but not seen very distinctly. 

 Capsule ovoid, small, but not seen ripe, 



W. Australia, Brummond, 2fid Coll. n, 38, ^rd CoIL n. 182 (In some sets). 



Sect. II. NixUANGirM, Endl. Capsule linear or very narrow-oblong. 



Sehies 10. Tenell^. Slender annuals. Leaves small or thin, alternate 

 or scattered, the lower ones sometimes more crowded, but not disiinctly 

 tufted or rosulate, 



47. S. despectum^ B. Br. Prod, 571. A little erect glabrous annual 

 of 1 to 3 cr 4 in., sometimes very slender, sometimes rather firmer and 

 branching in the jpoer part. Leaves small and scale-like, few and scattered^ 

 not rosulate or rarely a few longer narrow ones gathered to'^'-ether in a little 

 loose tuft near the base, ''he others varying from ovate and under 1 b^^ ^^ 

 lanceolate or linear and 2 o: 3 hues long. Flowers pink, few, shortly p^*^^' 

 cellate, forming an irregular coi-j-mb. Calyx about 2 lines long, the lo[^^^ 

 very short, the 2 lower ones m?re or less united. Corolla scarcely exceeding 

 the calyx-lobes, without appenda-^ies to the throat. Cap5\de linear, 3 H»^^ 

 long.— DC. Prod. vii. 336;- Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 235 ; S iuundatum,'^' 

 Br. Prod. 571 ; DC. Prod. vii. 336 ; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 38 



Victoria. On the Yarra aud Mouat M'lvor, F. Mueller ; Mount Emu, Whan. 



Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; Western Plaius, Backhouse ;' Q^^or^^"^^^' 

 Gunn ; King's Island, M'Goican. 



S. Australia- Mount Muirhead and St. Vincent's Gulf, jp. Mueller. 



•V/. Australia, King George's Sound, It. Brown, F, Mueller ; Gordon, Murray, ai»f 

 Tweed rivers, Oldfield, TTie latter specimens belong to a lou^*, slender variety- Br^^^'^^ 

 and Mueller's King George's Sound specimens have the same habit as the Port Dalryiop'^ 



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