leucopOffOU.] LXVII. EPACRTDE^. 211 



spreading. Bracts very small ; bracteoles not half so long as the calyx, all 

 obtuse. Sepals scarcely above 1 line long, dry, obtuse or rarely with a 

 minute not pungent point. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx ; lobes 

 as long as or rather longer than the tube, sometimes cohering at the base so 

 as to look like part of the tube till the flowering is advanced. Anthers 

 attached above the middle, obtuse, without sterile tips. Hypogynous disk 

 shortly lobed, readily separating into distinct scales. Ovary 5-celled; style 

 slender.— i. suhulatus, F. Muell. Pragm. iv. 103; Styplielia siibnIifoUa, F. 

 Muell. Fragm. vi. 33 ; L. oblong ifolius, Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 323 (with 

 rather broader leaves), 



W. Australia. Eottenest Island, A. Cunningham ; towards the Great Bight, Max- 

 tcell; also iu Drummoiid's and Preiss*s collections. The flowers are generally solitarj' or 2 

 together in Cuniiiiigham's, Preiss's, and Maxwell's specinicTis, often 3 to 5 in Drummoud's 

 (which are in bud only). Maxwell's have the leaves more closely revolute than the others. 

 All ^x^v^Yj ndhx L. jjropiytqmfs, and perhaps a variety, with shorter, more sessile, more 

 revolute, and more pungent leaves, the bracteoles and sepals, on the contrary, much more 

 obtuse, 



75. L. AUittii, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 103. A rather stout, rigid, gh- 

 Ijrous shrub, about 1 ft. high and not much branched (Oldfield). Leaves 

 sessile, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, with a short, almost pungent 

 point, the margins much revolute, mostly about ^ in. long. Peduncle s_axillarj% 

 short, at length recurved, bearing 3 to 4 flowers, shortly pedicellate within the 

 small bracts. Bracteoles broad, obtuse, not half so long as the calyx. Sepals 

 scarcely above 1 line long, dry, obtuse. Corolla nearly 4 lines long, the 

 lobes as long as the tube. Anthers obtuse, without sterile tips. _ Hypogy- 

 nous disk obscurely lobed or crenulate, readily separating into distinct scales. 

 Ovary 5-celled; style dongated.Sti/pkeUa AlUttii, P. MueU. Fragra. vi. 34. 



W.Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield. Differs from I. racCTn^^ow* chiefly in 

 the breadth of the leaves. 



76. L. racemulosus, BO. Prod. -vii. 747. An erect, rigid shrub, 

 sometimes low, with almost simple, erect stems, sometimes several feet high 

 aifl branching, usually glabrous. Leaves liuear or linear-lanceolate, rather 

 J^gid, with a short, usually pun«-ent point, the margins revolute, 3 to 1 m. 

 long- Peduncles axillary, very short, often at length recurved, bearing 2 to. 

 5 flowers, shortly pedicellate within the small bracts. Bracteoles not one- 

 third so long as the calyx. Sepals scarcely 1 line long, dry, rather narrow, 

 but not acute. Corolla-tube fully 2 lines long, or, including the erect base 

 ot the lobes, which have the appearance of a continuation of the tube, 3 mes 



ong, the lobes oidv shortly spreading above that. Anthers attached above 

 the middle, obtuse, 'without sterile tips. Hypogynous scales ovate, acumi- 

 nate. Ovary 5-celled ; style elouo-ated. Fruit hard, globular, about 2 lines 

 diameter.— Sond. in PI. Preiss. i.^312 (excl. the var. /3) ; Styplielia racemu- 

 ^ow. F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 33. 



1 Tf,- Australia. Swan River and thence to King George's Sound, Fraser, Brvmmmd, 

 ]^, Coll., Ind Coll. n. 267, Preiss, n. 369, and several others ; between Swan and il. r- 

 fhison rivers, Oldjield. The long falcate fruits descrihed by F. Mneller from some of Uld- 

 "«^W 3 specimens (all probably from one bush) appear to me to be monstrous ; the Haia 

 portiou contains the 5 consolidated abortive cells, and the lateral cavity on the convex side 



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