30 LXiiT. STYLIDIE/E. , [_Slylidiim. 



73. S. pubigerum, Sond. in FL Preiss. i. 383. Glabrous or nearly 

 so, except the yellowisli glandular-pubescent or villous inflorescence. Stock 

 densely tufted or very sliortly branched. Leaves radical, linear, flat, and 

 often dilated upwards, rather rigid and curved inwards, ^ to 1 in. long, 

 ending in a long hair-like point. Scapes 3 to 6 in. high, including the ob- 

 long thyrsoid panicle of 1 to 3 in. Bracts, small, narrow, and acute. 

 Flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx about 4 lines long, the lobes obtuse, not 

 half so long as the tube, more or less united in 2 lips. Corolla-lobes nearly 

 equal, without any appendages to the throat or labellum. Capsule linear, 5 

 or 6 lines long, but not seen quite ripe. 



"W. Australia. Swan Eiver, Drummond, Ist Coll. n. 543, 546, also n. 25 ; Freiss, 

 n. 2278. With tlie exception of the linear ovary and capsule, the species much resembles 

 S. ciliatiun, 



74. S. canaliculatum^ LinclL Swan Riv. Jpp, 29. Glabrous, except 

 a very few small glandular hairs sprinkled on the inflorescence. Stock 

 densely tufted, not proliferous, the base of the petioles somewhat bnlbous. 

 Leaves narrow-linear, scarcely pointed, rather flaccid, 1 to 2 or rarely 3 in. 

 long. Scape \ to nearly 1 ft. long, the panicle 1 to 3 in. long, loosely 

 thyrsoid, most of the peduncles or branches 3-flowered. Bracts small, 

 linear. Plowers all pedicellate. Calyx 2\ lines long, the narrow acute lobes 

 as long as the tube and free. Corolla with very small appendages to the 

 throat, the labellum narrow, acuminate, without appendages. Capsule ob- 

 long-linear, about 3 lines long. — S. thesioides^ DC. Prod. vii. 783; Sond, 

 in PL Preiss. i. 383. 



W- Australia. Svvau River, Drummond, \st Coll. n. 538, also n.28; Preiss, n^ 

 2257, 2258. 



75. S. leptophyllum. DC. Prod. vli. 783. Stock densely tufted. 

 Leaves narrow-linear, flaccid, 1 -I to 3 or even 4 in. long, shortly mucronate, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Scapes 6 to 8 in. high, usually hirsute with spread- 

 ing hairs from the base. Panicle thyrsoid or narrow and raceaie-like, glan- 

 dular-pubescent, the hairs often yellowish. Bracts narrow, small. Flowers 

 very shortly pedicellate. Calyx about 3 lines long, the lobes free, narrow, 

 obtuse, rather shorter than the tube. Corolla without appendages to the 

 throat. Capsule linear, about 4 lines long. — Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 384. 



"W. Australia. Swan River, Bnmmond, 1st Coll., Preiss, ». 2254. Scarcely differs 

 from S. dicholomum, except in the short not proliferous stock. 



Yar. mucronifoHum^ Leaves rather shorter, with a fine point. — Blackwood river. Old' 

 field; Sterlinjr and Plantagenet ranges and Philhps tw^t. Maxwell. 8. mucronifoliunf 

 Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 383, from Plantagenet, Preiss, n, 2256, i&, from the description, 

 evidently this variety, hut I have not seen tLe specimen. 



76. S. dichotom-iim, DC. Prod, vii. 783. Very closely allied on the 

 one hand to >S'. leptopJiyllum, on the other to S. bulbifenm, differing from 

 the former chiefly in the proliferous-branched stock, often 2 to 3 in. long, 



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crowded at the base and ends of the branches and scattered between the 

 tnfts, attaining sometimes 1 in. or more, narrow-linear and acute. Scapes 

 2 to 4 in. high, glandular-pubescent. Panicle or compound raceme more or 







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