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Brants large, broad, connate. 



Sepals 5, lanceolate, nearly distinct 1. T. pandunfomk 



Sepals 5, ovate, connate at the "base .*..•.,... 2. F. connata. 



Sepals 3, orbicular-cordate 3. V, perfoHata. 



Bracts distinct or very shortly united at the base. 

 Sepals 5, united in a campanulate, 5-lobed cup. 



Stock tufted. Leaves all radical 4. F. trinervis. 



Stem erect, leafy 5. F. macrophylla. 



Sepals 5, distinct or nearly so. 



Flowers rather large. Sepals obtuse, 4 to 6 lines long. Co- 

 rolla frequently spurred. Capsule not exceeding the calyx - 6. V.paradoxa, 



riowers small. Sepals acute, about 2 lines long. Corolla not 



spurred. Capsule exceeding the calyx 7. F, cycitopotamica, 



Sepals 3^ distinct or nearly so. 



Upper lubes of the corolla deeply separate. Scapes longer than 

 the leaves. 

 Glabrous. Sepals broadly cordate, almost orbicular , . , 8. F. lytaia. 

 Glabrous. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, obliquely cordate and * 



shortly decurreut . . ' 9. F. macrocaJyx. 



Villous. Sepals broadly ovate, not cordate 10. V. ptihescens. 



Glabrous. Sepals oblong -lanceolate • 11. F. spathulata. 



Corolla-lobes all nearly equal. Scapes shorter than the leaves 12. F. 7/iontana. 



1. V. panduriforxnis^ A. Cunn. Herb. ' Glabrous and glaucous. 

 Kadical leaves petiolate, obovate, tootlierL Scapes or stems very tall, less 

 forked tlian in other sp^^cies, with several pairs of large, broad, connate 

 bracts, entire or scarcely toothed, each one 1 to 2 in. diameter. Flowers in 

 dense cymes in one a:sil of each of the upper pairs of bracts (only one fort 

 of the primary inflorescence elongated) or the terminal cyme regularly dicbo- 

 tomous. Sepals 5, lanceolate, nearly equal, about \ in. long, free orsligMlv 

 connate at the base. Corolla not seen. Capsule about as long as thecalyi- 

 Seeds about 4 lines diameter, including the broad transparent wing. 



N- Australia. Goodenough Bay and Point Cunningham, N.W, coast, A. Cunning' 

 ham. The specimens seen of this and the two following species are very incomplete ; tte 

 radical leaves of F. pan dur if or mis are desciibed from the drawing of a plant formerly raised 

 in Kew Gardens from Cunningham's seeda. 



2. V, connata^ F, Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ, viii. 162, and in Trans- 

 Phil. Soc, Vict. i. 18. Glabrous and glaucous. Eadical leaves petiolate, 

 obovate-obloug and toothed {Herd. Hook.) or oblong-spathnlate and entire 

 (Herb. F, 3IuclL), 2 to 3 in. long. Stem tall, dichotomous, with large broad 

 connate entire or toothed bracts at the forks. Sepals 5, ovate or omte- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the outer one fully 4 lines long, the others smaller, 

 usually connate at the base. Corolla 7 to 8 lines long, the lower lobes not 

 winged (or the wings destroyed in the specimens seen?), the upper oaes 

 winged on one side and sliglitly ciliate. Capsule about 3 lines diameter. 

 Seeds about 1 line diameter, including the wing, 



N, S. "Wales. Scrubby sandhills towards the junction of the Murray aud Murruni- 

 bidgee, P. Mueller, 



, Australia- Between the Bonnej river aud Mount Morphett, M'Douall StuarU ' 

 single specimen in Herb. F. Muell., with the calyx-lobes much more connate than in th^ 

 typical specimens. 



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