Fillarsia.'] Lxxvui. gentiane^. 377 



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with 2 ovate stigmatic lobes; in otlier flowers the style is long liuear-subu- 

 late and undivided, but in tliese I do not find any perfect ovules. Cnpsule 

 opening at the top in 4 valves. Seeds small, somewhat compressed, smooth 

 or minutely granular.— Nees in PI. Preiss. i. 364 ; P. Muell. Fragtn. vi. 140 ; 

 Sicatia parnas-sifoUa, Labill. PL Nov. IIoU. i. 72. t. 97. 



W. Australia. Swamps about King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brotm, 

 Preiss, n. 1957, //amy, and others ; extending eastward to Goose Island Bay, R. Broicii, 

 and Cape le Grand, Maxwell. 



Brown had originally confounded this with some of the slender specimens of the eastern 

 y. renlformis, but his'herbarium shows that he subseqaeutly recognized the distinction. 



7. V. violifolia, F. Mnell. Fragm. vi. 138. A dwarf plant which may 

 possibly prove to be a very much reduced form of V. parnas-vfoUa. Leaves 

 all radical, mi almost filiform petioles, ovate orbicular or reniform, from 

 under \ iu. to nearly 1 in. diameter. Flowering stems leafless or with a 

 single leaf, bearing but very few flowers or only a single one. Flowers small, 

 yellow, with very acute calyx-lobes and entire"corolla-lobes as in V. parnassi- 

 /o?w, and the base of the calyx similarly obcoiiical. Capsule acute, 4- 

 valved. Seeds few, smooth. 



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Tweed river, Oldfeld; Don river. Maxwell. 



8. V. lasiosperma, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 137. A tall erect plan re- 

 sembling V. parnassifoUa and V. aU/iJlora. Leaves all radical on long 

 petioles, ovate, entire or sinuate-toothed, usually narrowed at the base, i to 

 ^ in. long, usually much thicker than in F. paruassifolm, and the thick 

 petiole more dilated at the base. Flowering-stems attammg 2 to 6 it., witli 

 the loose panicle and white flowers of F. albiflora, but the corolla larger and 

 the lobes, besides the beard or fringe at the base, have on their inner surface 

 a longitudinal raised keel or wing. Style short or long, the stigmatic lobes 

 usually smaller than in V. albiflora. Capsule ovoid-globular, opening m 4 

 short valves. Seeds compressed and concave when diy with a somewhat 

 prominent border, but swelling out when soaked, hispid with short rigid 

 hairs. 



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W. Australia. Swamps near King George's Sound, F. Mueller. 



, 9. V. albiflora, F Muell. Fragm. ii. 21, vi. 138. A tall erect plant 

 riosely resembling A parnamfoUaS^^ usually stouter, the leaves broadc 

 and the flowers white. Kadical leaves on long petioles, orbicular or almost 

 remforra, entire or sinuate-toothed, broadly cordate or truncate at the base 

 ["ostlyl to 2 in. diameter. Stems attaining 2 ft. or more, leafless bes es 

 the small bracts, or with a single petiolate leaf at the first branching. 

 Rowers in a large loose panicle as in F. farnasnfoUa, and of the same size 

 or rather smaller. Calyx obtuse or scarcely obconical at the base, the seg- 

 ments acute, from 2 to nearly 3 lines long. Corolla-lobes bearded mside at 

 the base, but without the longitudinal central wing of F. lasiosperma. Lap- 

 ^iJe as long as or longer than the calyx, opening at the top m 4 va ves 

 Style rather short, with ovate acute stigmatic lobes. Seeds ovate, minutely 

 ganularor muricate, the tubercle at the hilum very small.- ?^. reui/omm, 

 ^ees in Pi. Preiss. i. 364, not of R. Br. 



