. Triehinium.] XCVII. AMARANTACER, 223 
orbicular, very obtuse, soft and thick, about 1 to 13 in. diameter. Spikes 
| adi conical, becoming cylindrical, 2 or 3 in. long, and at least 11 in. 
Braets broad, acute and mucronate, scarious with dark tips, 
fside; the three inner ones rather shorter an very densely 
Woolly inside near the base. Stamens all antheriferous and equal or 
nearly so.— Prilotus rotund;folius, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 230. 
N. Australia. Near Hammersley range, N. W. coast, F. Gregory's Expedition. 
LT 
dissitilorum, F. Muell. Fragm, iv. 89. Erect and branching, 
hard and almost woody at the base, the branches and foliage more or 
i, long, the flowers more or less distant. Bracts ovate or lanceolate, 
acute, about 2 lines long, the upper ones brown and scarious, the lower 
ones thicker and tomentose; bracteoles rather broader and more scarious. 
. tXtentr 
de, with 
leal 
base. Staminal cup very Tod i out- 
a few hairs also on the filaments. Ovary glabrous; style 
al, 
N. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, F, Mueller. 
E 
lto? ft, 
STRAMINEA.— Spikes cylindrical elongated or rarely 
more or less yellow (usually a 
distans, R. Br. Prod. 415. A perennial with a hard stock at 
Woody, and erect virgate slender simple or branched stems of 
, glabrous as well as the foliage. Leaves narrow-linear, almost 
7m, the lower ones sometimes 2 in v, the others much smaller 
E distant, Sp; 
the flowers all 
| teole Scarious and shining, 2 to 3 lines long, all similar or the brac- 
S smaller narrower and more acute. Perianth about À in. long, the 
