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ceptible on the young ones. Leaves narrow-linear, acute or mucronate, 

 usually glabrous, crowded in dense tufts at the base and ends of the branches, 

 with scattered intermediate ones. Eacemes from 2 to 4 in. or rarely 5 or 6 

 in. long, including the very short peduncle, pubescent, but scarcely or not at 

 all glandular, simple or nearly so, the pedicels all short, the low-er ones 

 rarely 2- or 3-flowered. Calyx-lobes free, narrow, not half so long as the 

 tnbe. Corolla small, white with purple spots, the throat without appendages. 

 Capsule oblong-linear, about 3 lines long. 



Queensland. Arid hills between the Suttor, Belyaudo, Mackenzie, and Burnett rivers, 

 F. Mueller ; Alice river, Mitchell; Dogwood Creek, Leichkardi. 



N. S. ■^Vales. Darliag Downs, Woolls ; N.W. interior, probably on the Bogan, 

 MitcheU., 1st Ej-pedition (1831). These specimens were determined as a new sj)ecies by 

 LuuUey and distributed as ^. laricifolium, Lmdl. (not of Rich.), but never described (tlie 

 S. laricifoUum attributed to Lindley, in "Walp. Rep. ii. 704, being a misprint for S.carkifO' 

 Hum) \ without the basal woolly tufts the specimens are not unlike those of S, iaricifoliuniy 

 Rich., but readily distinguished by the short pedicels, narrow capsules, and almost total want 

 of glandular hairs. 



Sect. III. Rh\nchangium. Capsnle lanceolate or linear, contracted 

 into a slender beak. Perennials. Leaves linear, scattered along tlie prolife- 

 rous-branclied stock or stem, the npper ones usually crowded into terminal 



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80. S. fasciculatum, i?.5r. P/W. 572. Glabrous or tlie inflorescence 

 glandular-pubescent. Leafy stems usually elongated, sometimes attaining 1 

 ft., simple or slightly proliferous-branched. Leaves scattered along the 

 stems, the npper ones collected in a terminal whorl-like tuft, linear, acute or 

 almost obtuse, narrowed below the middle, the longer ones from 1 to 2 in. 

 Spike-like panicles or compound racemes varying from almost sessile and 3 

 or 3 in. long to pedunculate and 10 in. long, the flowers more or less clus- 

 tered along the rhachis on very short peduncles or almost sessile. Bracts 

 small, lanceolate or linear. Calyx-tube long and linear, the lobes small and 

 free. Capsnle membranous, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, straight or 

 slightly falcate, but both valves perfect and nearly equal, ending in a slender 

 beak, \ to nearly -J in. long, including the beak. — DC. Prod. vii. 337. 



VT. Australia. King George's Sound, if. Brown, also Dmmmond, n. 128, and 2wfl 

 Coll. n. 270, the typical form with short proliferous stems and short iufiorescence. — ^* 

 cicatricosum. Scud, in PI. Proiss. i. 300, is probably the typical S, fasciculatfim. It can- 

 not be S.adnatum^ Sdx. propinquum, for the capsule is described as " suba^quivalvis." 



Nox, elongaium. Stems elongated ; racemes 6 to 10 in. long. — Flinders Bay, Colh^7 

 also Brnmmond^ n. 127 and 2nd ColL w. 260 (in some sets). 



Tlie species differs from S. adnatum only in the capsule. 



SI. S, falcatnmj It. Br. Trod, 572. Very near 8, fasciciilatnm,y^\^^ 

 tlie same linear leaves and elongated or proliferous stem, leafy below tb^ 

 terminal tuft; but the stem as well as the rhachis of the inflorescence ^^ 

 pubescent. Kacerae 4 to 6 in. long, shortly pedunculate or nearly sessile, 

 simple or nearly so, the pedicels very short, and all 1-flowered or very rarely 

 2-flowered. Capsule lanceolate, falcate, curving downwards, the upper cell 

 and valve much narrower than the lower one and semi-abortive, the beas 

 short but slender. — DC. Prod. vii. 337. 



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