24 LXiii. STYLIDIEX. ' [Sti/Udium. 



Queensland- Shoalwater Bay, B, Brown. This may prove to be a very slender, 

 usually diffuse variety of S. tenellam^ Swartz. 



53. S, fissilobum, ¥, MuelL Fragm. i. 154. A weak, filiform annual 

 of I to \\ ft., paniciilately branclied at the top, glabrous or with a few small 

 glandular hairs on the iuhorescence. Leaves very small and scattered, the 

 lower ones more approximate but not rosulate, 1 to li lines long, all linear- 

 subulate. Panicle loose and somewhat corymbose. Flowers sessile. Calyx- 

 tube long and filiform, the lobes linear-lanceolate, often partially united in 2 

 lips. Corolla twice as long as the calyx-lobes, the larger lobes bifid, with 

 appendnges both to the throat and labt^llum {F. Mueller). Capsule narrow- 

 linear, f to 1 in. long, very slender and beak-like at the end. 



N- Australia. Grassy, inundated places on the Victoria river, hetwccn Mam Camp 

 and Steep Head, F. Mueller, 



53. S. alsinoides, R. Br. Prod. 573. A glabrous and weak but 

 usually erect and branching annual of \ to nearly 1 ft. Leaves alternate or 

 scattered below the inflorescence, shortly petiolate, broadly ovate, 2 to 4^ lines 

 long, obtuse and thin, the upper ones passing gradually into the narrow, 

 acute, sessile floral leaves or bracts, which are almost always opposite. 

 Flowers sessile in one axil of each pair of bracts. Calyx-tube linear, nearly 

 \ in. long, the lobes narrow, not 1 line long, the 2 lower ones more or less 

 united. Corolla very small, the lobes united at the base in pairs (without 

 appendages?). Capsule linear, 8 to 9 lines long. — DC. Prod. vii. 337 ; ^^ 

 Muell. Fragm. i. 151. 



W. Australia- Victoria river towards Stokes Kange (starved, with uarroAV leaves) and 

 "Wickham river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solauder, A. Cunningham ; Lizard Island, 

 M'G'dlivray ; Rockingham Bay, Ballachy, 



S, mitramcmoidesy F. Mnelh Fragm. i. 150, from Palm Island, Victoria river, Flood, 

 seems to be a small, starved specimen of S. alsiyioides ; the bracts, as in the typical form, 

 are mostly opposite. 



54. S. tenerrimum, F. MuelL Fragm, i. 150. A little glabrous 

 annual, with weak, filiform, simple or slightly-branched stems of 1 to 3 in. *| 

 Leaves scattered, lanceolate, acute, narrowed at the base, 1 to 1^ lines long, If 

 the lower ones not more approximate and usually smaller. Flowers small, 

 on rather long axillary and terminal pedicels. Calyx about 2 lines long, the 

 lobes free, shorter than tlie tube. Corolla small, white, the lobes entire, with 

 a dark spot at the base of each {F. Mueller). Capsule narrow-oblong or 

 linear, contracted at the base, 2 to 3 lines long:. 



rj, Australia- Margins of swamps between M'Adam Kangc and Providence Hill, F- 

 Mueller. 



Seriks 11. CoRYMBULOs^. Sleudcr annuals or small perennials. 

 Leaves radical or at the ends of the short stems, rosulate or tufted. Scapes 

 leafless except the bracts, rarely exceeding 6 in. Plowers corymbose or 

 sessile in the forks or along the scape or its branches, or solitary. 



II 7 55. S. brachypliyUxun, Suud. in Pi. Freiss. i. 3S6. A slender (annual?), 

 / glabrous except the slightly glandular inflorescence. Leaves rosulate or 



