StyUdium,'] LXiii. stylidie^. 25 



forming a little tuft, but not bulbous, raJical or at the top of a loosely- 

 slieathed stem of 3 or 4 lines, linear, flaccid, 2 to 4 lines long. Scapes 2 to 

 4 in. hig-h, brancliing upwards into a loose, irregular, almost coryinbose 

 panicle. Flowers all pedicellate. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes 

 narrow, much shorter than the tube, the 2 upper ones sometimes united. 

 Corolla twice as long as the calyx-lobes (without appendages?), the tube 

 very short. Capsule narrow, about 3 lines long. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Brummond, Isl Coll. n. 518, 519, 523 (often mixed 

 with S. petiolare)^ Preiss, n. 2248 (the specimen seen in Herb. F. Mueller, a very reduced 

 slender form), Tone river, OUrfiefd. 



56. S, capillare 2i. Br, Prod, 570. A little slender, glabrous annual. 

 Leaves radical, rosulate, like those of S. bracJiyphyllum. or more spathulate, 2 to 

 3 lines long. Scapes capillary, 1 to 2 in. high, bearing 1 or 2 pedicellate 

 flowers. Calyx-lobes free, very narrow. Corolla small, the 2 larger lobes 

 more united, with appendages to the throat but none to the labellum 

 (S. Brotcn). Capsule long and linear. — DC. Prod. vii. 335. 



Queensland- Endeavour river, Banks and Solander. 



57. S. rotundifolium^ R, Br. Prod. 571. Glabrous, except a few 

 glandular hairs on the iiiHorescence. Leaves radical, rosulate, obovate or 

 orbicular, shortly petiolate, 2 to 3 lines long. Scapes filiform, 6 to 8 in. 

 high, with a few, miuute, scattered, narrow leaves, loosely corymbose at tlie 

 top. Flowers small, shortly pedicellate or nearly sessile. Calyx-lobes 

 united in 2 short, broad, entire lips. Corolla-lobes nearly equal, entire or 

 emarginate, without appendages to the throat. Capsule linear, 5 to 8 lines 

 long.— DC. Prod. vii. 335; F. Muell. Fragm. i. 151. 



N. Australia. Plains at the foot of M'Adam Range, F. Mueller ; Hunter's River, 

 York Sound, A. Cunninz/ham. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, BanJcs and Solander; Shoal water Bay, R. Brown, 



The species is very near S. uliginosurn^ but the flowers are not so closely sessile, and the 

 capsule much louger. 



5S. S. schizanthum, F. Mnelh Fragm, \. 153. A slender annual, with 

 rosulate, radical leaves^ closely resemhling S, rotnndifoUum in foliage, inflo- 

 rescence, and in the slender, linear capsules, but the calyx-lobes are linear 

 and free, at least the 3 upper ones, and the corolla-lobes are larger and more 

 deeply bifid, the 2 larger ones more divided, and uuited at the base into a 

 kind of lower lip. Capsule above | in. long. 



K. Australia. Moist pastures on the Victoria river, F. Mueller, This species has 

 the calyx and corolla nearly of S. uUghiosum with the capsule of S. rotundifoliim. 



59. S. lobuliflorum, F. MuelL Fragm, i. 153. A slender, erect 

 annual, with the habit o'i S. scJiizanthum, but rather more rigid and minutely 

 glandular^pubescent from the base of the scape. Leaves petiolate, rosulate, 

 broadly obovate or orbicular, ^ to |^ in. long, glabrous, rather firmer than in 

 8. schizantJimn, Scapes about 6 in. high, branching in the upper part into 

 a loose, almost corymbose panicle. Flowers nearly sessile in the forks or 

 terminating the branches. Calyx-lobes linear, much shorter than the slender 

 tube, the 2 upper ones more or less united, the others free. Corolla with 

 the 2 larger lobes bifid. Capsule linear, \ in. long or rather more. 



