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DracojJii/llum.] Lxvil, epacuideji. 2G3 



tube oblong- cyliudrical, sliglitly contracted at tlie tliroat, 4 to 5 lines long; 

 lobes short, recurved. Filaments exceedingly slender, adnatc to tlic corolla- 

 tube. Anthers ovate or oblong. Hypogvnous scales small, truncate.— DO. 

 Prod. vii. 769 ; F. Muell. Pragm. vi. 65 ; Bot. Mag. t. 326i ; GuUlem. Ic. 

 Fl. Austral, t. 1 ; Eeichb. Icon. Exot. t. 108 ; ■:Epacns secunda, Poir. Diet. 

 Siippl. ii. 556 ; Prionotes secunda, Spreng. Syst. i. 631. 



N. S. "Wales. Port -Jackson to the Blue Mouutaius, R. Brown, Sieher, n. G9, ami 

 many others ; Illawarra, A. Cumiingliam, Backhouse. The filameuts arc rep-—*"^ '" **'° 

 Bot.' Mag. as free, I have always found tliem aJiiate to the corolla-tube. 



3. D. squarrosum, R. Br. Prod. 556. An erect slender shrub of 5 

 to 6 ft. or rarely taller, not much branched, the young shoots usually and the 

 inflorescence always more or less pubescent. Leaves very spreadmg or re- 

 curved or rarely more erect, narrow-lanceolate, tapering into a subulate pomt, 

 the margins often softly ciliate, usually about 1 in. long, but in some speci- 

 mens scMcely above \ in., in others nearly 2 in. Flowers in dense cyhmlrical 

 sessile terminal spikes of about 1 in., each one sessile within a floral leat or 

 bract between 2 bracteoles, the lower bracts sometimes elongated and leat- 

 like, hut usually all ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, ciHate, persistent as long 

 as or longer than the calvx ; bracteoles lanceolate, acummate, keeled, shorter 

 than the calyx. Sepals" lanceolate, acutely acuminate, cihate, 3 to 4 lines 

 long, often pubescent. Corolla-tube cylindrical, pubescent nearly as long as 

 the calyx ; lobes broadly obovate, horizontally spreading about half as long 

 as the tube, with longitudinal ridges at the base almost closmg the orihce ot 

 the tube. Filaments adnate to above the middle of the tube; an hers 2- 

 lobed at the base. Hypogyuous disk very short, truncate Ovary pubescent. 

 -Sphenoioma sqnarrosum, G. Don, Gen. Syst. lii. 785 ; DC. irocl. mi. / U , 

 Sond. in PI. pfeiss. i. 336; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 66; Epacn-s squar^osa, 

 Poir. Diet. Suppl. ii. 556. 



-r. Australia. Wet places, King George's Sound and adjoining ^.^tncts^^J J^'^^^^, 

 er, Drmnmond, Ud Coll. n. 242, Prehs, n. 445, Oldfield, Maxicell, F. Mueller. 



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4. D. Dnimmondii, Beidh. A stout species probably tall. Leaves 

 spreading, lanceolate, tapering to a pungent point, the margins soft J c^'^^t^' 

 at least when young, H to 3 in. long, the upper ones small and app.e-ed, 

 Riving the last 1 or 2 in. of the flowering branch the ^PP^'^^'r^^;^.^ ?'" 

 duucle. Flowers rather large, in an ovate-oblong dense simple spke ot i n 

 or rather more, eacli one solitary within the bract and ^^s.de. B.acts 

 broadly lanceolate, very acute, ciliate, the upper ones ovate «^J; ^""«"^^^^^^ 

 Wcteoles much shorter, complicate. Sepals 4 lines long, rathe load 

 '^cute. Corolla-tube glabrous, as long as the calyx ; lobes very 1> ««f >J^f^^ ^ 

 ^f long as the tube, with very prominent lougitudmal ridges at the ba e 

 dosing the orifice. Filaments less adnate than in D. sqmrrosum ; anthei. 

 2-lobed at the base. Hypon-ynous scales small. Ovary glabrous. 



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branching shrub of 3 to 4 ft., closely allied to B. cajpitaUm, '-^"^ Per'KiF/ 

 ^ariety. Leaves linear-lanceolate, crowded, erect or n^'-e^'!^;'^S'"'J„ !'';;'„; 

 \ to 1 in. long up to the base of the spike, without the intervention of any 



