^tyVidinm,'] lxtii. stylidie.e. 29 



small, the lobes nearly equal, the tliroat with small appendages, but none to 

 the oblong labellum. Capsule linear, 4 to 6 Hues long. 



W. Australia, Pastures between Providence Hill and M*Adam Kange, F. Mueller. 

 The specimens not in good foliage. 



70. S. luuscicola, F. MaelL Fragm, i. 153. Stems simple, erect, her- 

 baceous but rather rigid, 1 to 4 in. high, with a few scattered leaves, and 

 crowned by a spreading cluster of orbicular, membranous leaves on rather long 

 petioles, the lamina \ to above. 1 in. diameter, usually glabrous. Peduncles 

 several from amoni^st the terminal leaves and oxceedinir them, but flowerino: 

 irom near the base. Flowers sessile, in the axils of minnte bracts, formiuij 

 interrupted, more or less glandular spikes. Calyx-tube very slender, lobes 

 small, uarrou', the S lower ones more or less united. Corolla very small, the 

 2 larger lobes emarginate, the throat witliout appendages. Capsule very 

 narrow-linear, 8 to 10 lines lon^. 



^ N. Australia. In tufts of moss near springs and cataracts on the Upper Victoria 

 river, F. Mueller^ also from King's voyage in herb. R. Bruwn. This species has nearl) the 

 inflorescence of S, TcHginosuntj with a very peculiar habit and foliage. 



Series 12. Thyrsifokmes. Perennials, with a tufted or proliferous- 

 branched stock or stem, with radical or terminal tufts of leaves. Flowers in 

 an oblong or elongated thyrsoid panicle or raceme. 



^ 71. S, crassifoliutn J?. B)\ Prod, 571. Usually glabrous, except the 

 glandular-pubescent inflorescence. Stock short, thick and hard. Leaves 

 radical, dilated at the base, but not forming persistent bulbs, lanceolate or 

 almost linear, 4 to 6 in, long, including the long petiole, rather thick and 

 turning black in drying as in S, pycnodachynm. Scape 1 to 2 ft. long or even 

 more, including the long raceme-like panicle. Bracts small, lanceolate. 

 Peduncles very short, mostlv 2- or 3-flowered. Calyx-lobes short, acute, 

 Tree or shortly united in 2 lips. Corolla pink, without appendages or with 

 very small ones to the labellum. Capsule linear or oblong-linear, 5 to 8 

 lines long.— DC. Prod. vil. 335 ; Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 384 ; S. leptohotrys, 

 DC. Prod. vii. 783 ; Sond. 1. c. 384 ? ; Damjpiera ? inimdata, De Vr. in PI. 

 Preiss. i. 404. 



'^^ Australxd 



Vasse rivers, Collie 

 Fiats, Maxwell, 



72. S. pycnostacliyum, Lindl. Swan 2tiv. App. 29. Stock tufted, 



the persistent bases of the petioles forming a bulb. Leaves radical, from 

 obovate-spathulate to oblauccolate, mostly 3 or 4 in. long, including the long 

 petiole, more or less sprinkled with glandular hairs. Scape ascending, glan- 

 dular-pubescent or villous, 6 in. to neeirly 1 ft. high, the thyrsoid panicle 

 occupyiog about one-half. Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels very short. Calyx- 



La. King George's Soimd, R. Brown, Baxter and others, to Swaa and 

 ie, Drummond, Oldfield, Preiss, «. 1523, and others, eastward to Phillips 



lobes linear, free. Corolla without any appendages or only very small ones 

 to the labellum. Capside linear, 9 to 10 lines long, slightly contracted at 

 the top, but not seen quite ripe.— 5". tJiyrsiforme, DC. Prod. vii. 7S3 ; Soud. 



i« B. Preiss. i. 384. 



'^- Australia. Swan Ris-er, Drummond, \st CoU.n. 531. 



