ShjUdumi.'] Lxin. styltt>ie.i:. • 33 



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King George's Sound, R. Brown, Oldfield. 



S. Zessoni, DC. Prod. vii. 337, from the incomplete diagnoses given, and Sond, in PL 



Preiss. i. 388, from the more detailed character, seems to he this si)eeics, as sugrgested by 



Sondcr. 



rhynchoc 



This may be a 



vanety or ^. jaicatam correspoudmg to the abbreviated form of S.faHcicula- 

 turn and S, adnatnm, but I have seen no intermediates. Leafy stems rarely 

 above 6 in. long, proliferous-branched, with the linear leaves of the allied 

 species. Spike compound but reduced to a sessile cluster, concealed in the 

 tt^rminal tuft of leaves from which the summits of the flowers alone ])rof rude. 

 Capsule falcate as in S, falcalum^ with the upper cell narrow and the lower 

 one broad, but the slender beak is much longer tlian in tliat species. 



W 



Drummond^ \st ColL n, 542, also ;/. 128. 



83. S. adnatum, JR. Br. Prod, 572. Glabrous, except the more or 

 less glandular inflorescence. Leafy stems simple or proliferous-branelied as 



/ 



1 ft. louiT. Leaves 



scattered along the stem, the upper ones crowded in a tenninal whorl-like 

 tuft,, linear but sometimes all very narrow, in other specimens all rather broad, 

 and from ^ to 1| in. long. Spike-like panicles or compound racemes dense, 

 tisnally rather short and nearly sessile, but sometimes as long as in the long 

 variety of ^S'. fa^ciculatnm, FloAvers, as in that species, in nearly sessile 

 clusters along the rhachis. The sole ditierence is in the capside, which is 

 lanceolate or linear, and beaked as in that species, but usually narrower and 

 niore falcate (curving upwards), and the upper cell is entirely abortive, the 

 valve being reduced to a filiform rib on the upper side of the lower perfect 

 cell. The length varies from about \ in., including the rather long beak, to 

 i^early 1 in., ^including the short beak.— DC. Prod. vii. 337; 8. fascicnla- 

 ium,Uii(\\. inBot.Eeg. t. 1459; Arn. in Bot. Mag. t. 381G,not of R. Br. 



"W- Australia. Goose Island Bay, R. Broian ; King George's Sound and adjoining 

 districts, Oldfield and others, Bnmmond, n, 139; Salt Lake, Middle Island, MajrwelL 



these all belong to the commoner form with narrow leaves, the inflorescence from 3 to near 

 10 in. long. 



var. ahhreviatiim. Leaves narrow or hroad. Infloresceuce rardy ahove 2 in. long and 

 ^ery ^^Xi%'t,~S. 'propinquum, R. Br. Prod. 572; DC. Prod. vii. 337 (with narrow leaves) ; 

 «• adnahim, var. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2598, Bot. Reg. t. 914 (with broader leaves).— King 

 ^f'or-ti's Sound, E. Brown and others. 



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2. LEVENHOOKIA, E. Br. 



(Coleostylis, Sond.) 



Calyx-lobes 5. Corolla irregular, 4 lobes nearly equal, more or less con- 

 tracted at the I)ase into claws, the 5th or labellum usually shorter, with a 

 ^ery concave or hood-shaped lamina, enveloping the top of the column or 

 ^^f^stically thrown back. Column short and erect, adnate at the base to one 

 side of the calyx-tube. Stigma 2-lobed or undivhied. Ovary 1-celIed, with 

 ^ basal placenta more or less connected with the sides by a short, incomplete 

 ^i^sepiment. Capsule globular, crowned by the calyx-lobes. Seeds few.— 

 ^all, erect, simple or corymbosely-branched annuals. Leaves small, alter- 

 nate, not vosulate. Flowers crowded in »hort racemes at the ends of the 



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