Andtrsonia.'] LXVir. epacride.e. 2") 3 



Filaments broad and flat, glabrous or bairy ; aiitbers nnrrow-b'neav, nduate 

 nearly to the base. Hypogynous scales veiy small. Ovules several, but 

 usually only one in eacli cell ripening. — Sprengelia involucrata, F. Mucll. 

 Fragm. vi. 62. 



W. Australia, Brummond, n. 105, 108, 111, ind Coll. n. 256, 257 ; Sussex district, 

 hms, K. 263. 



6. A. homalostoma, Beuth. Low and diffuse or more frequently 

 erect, and often above 1 ft. bigh. Leaves spreading and sometimes squar- 



rose, acuminate and acute, straight or twisted, rarely above 3- in. long ; the 

 floral ones broad, acuminate, about as long as the flowers. FloAvers small, 

 pink, in dense terminal globular heads or oblong spikes, sometimes I in. 

 long, each one sessile within a floral leaf. Bracteoles keeled, acuminate, 

 shorter than the calyx. Sepals broadly lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the 

 scarious margins entire or ciliate, about 2 lines long. Corolla often slightly 

 exceeding the calyx, the lobes nearly as long as the tube, densely bearded at 

 the base with hairs closing the throat, otherwise glabrous. Filaments slightly 

 flattened ; anthers short and broad, attached in the middle. Hypogynous 

 scales narrow. — Homalostoma simplex, Stschcgl. in Bull. Mosc. 1859, i. 2.1. 



W 



and adjoining districts,^. Cunningham, Baxter, Ol'ljield, Maxwell; Hay nver, J'. Mueller. 

 ine habit is sometimes that of A. involucrata, but the flowers are very different. 



^ 7. A. sprengelioides, R. Br. Prod. 554. An erect shrub, eitlier 



densely branched, coryndjose, and under 1 ft., or sometimes taller and 

 oosely branched. Leaves crowded, spreading, broad and concave at the 

 base, contracted into a long point, undulate or twisted, 3 to 5 lines long, the 

 floral ones broader with shorter points. Flowers pink, in short, dense, ter- 

 minal heads, each one sessile within a floral leaf. Bracteoles leaf-like, keeled, 

 much shorter than the floral leaf. Sepals much longer than the floral leaves, 

 varying from scarcely 3 to above 4 lines, more or less convolute when dry, the 

 margins ciliate or not. Corolla nearly as long as the calyx, the lobes much 

 shorter than the tube, recurved at the end and slightly bearded. Fdamenfs 

 somewhat flattened, glabrous or hairy ; anthers oblong-linear, attached below 

 he middle. Hypogynous scales short, broad, and truncate, or united in a 

 truncate or shortly-toothed cup. Style slender, glabrous or minutely pubes- 

 cent.-DC. Prod. vii. 766; Bot. Mag. t. 1645; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 263; 

 f sprengelioides, A. Lehmanniana, A. patens, and A. Frasen,^ Sond. m 1 1. 

 ^'•eiss. 1. 330, 331 ; Sprengelia Andersoni, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 64. 



^\^' ;;^^«t«-=^lia- King George's Sound, R. Brown, Fraser, etc., and thence to Swan 



}^;\fru^n,ond, 1st Coll. n. 4%, also n. 104. 109, Zrd Coll. n. 184 192 ; Tj^,n 

 &r V o^ many others ; eastward to Point Malcolm and Cape And, Maxwell I he 

 "«=al.ty. N. S. Wales, given by Sondcr for A. Fraseri, is owing to an error in the label. 

 _Var. pulescens. Upper leaves pubescent, the points shorter, less spreading or incur^^d. 

 .f-P^^escens, Sond. in PL Preiss. i. 331 ; Swan River, Brummond \d Coll. n. 495. 

 iTth , ff ■'^"^ *^ ^''""ents as shorter and broader upwards, but that is in the bud only ; 

 ^ old flowers I find them the same as in the other forms. 



8- A. latiflora, F. Muell. Fragm. v^. Gl. An erect shrub, with long 

 branches. Leaves in the typical form squarrose, shortly acuminate and 



