310 CHI. LAURINEÆ. | Cassytha. 
—Meissn 
54; Hook. f. Fl. Tas . 318; F. Muell. Pl. Vict 
ii. t. 68; c. p Schlecht in Thun: xx. 578, ! Mais ssn. l.c. 253; C. 
icrocephala, Meissn. l.c. 253; C. casuarine, Nees in Pl. Preiss. i. 619; 
Melam, l.c. 953. 
N. Australia. Islands of the gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Sturt’s Creek, 
F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schulz. 
N. S. Wales. Port Jack son, R. Brown, J. D. Hooker, Clowes, Woolls ; Castle- 
main, Piard; oc ld Bay, F. Mueller. 
"Victoria. ortlan d and Glenelg river, Robertson; near Melbourne, Adamson; 
Dandenong Grampian and Victoria Ranges, ' F. Mueller. 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant on the north coast, densely 
pe es ed bushes, etc., J. ooker 
S. A ‘Kangaroo Ma See ley 
w. Aas tralia. King George’s Sound a adjoining districts, E. Brown an nd m 
ethers, Drummond Ged coll.?) suppl. n. 64, 68, Preiss, n. 1624; Murchison ae 
mens — E Fruit ovoid, eem 2 lines long. 
DC. Pro 
3. flava, Nees in Pl. Preis 620. Stems nien deni frequently 
filiform, more or less MASA Tul whitish hairs, which a i 
consisting of very small closely sessile flowers usually more numero 
than in €. glabella and the peduncles longer. Bracts and outer seg- 
ments of the perianth ciliate and hirsute ; inner ee under $ line 
e gares 22 with etus hairs. Ovary hirsute. t 
not seen.—Meissn. in DC. Pro 253. 
a mond, afe ak ?) suppl. n. 62 and 67; Swan river, Preiss, 
n. 1622; near Cape Riche, Harv 
4. C. pubescens, R. » Prod. 404. Stems more robust than in 
C. glabella, less so than in C. melantha, but variable, the young branches 
and inflorescence shortly pubescent or villous. Spikes short, forming 
when in bud close heads of few flowers, but lengthening out sometimes 
to 2 in., with the lower flowers rather distant, the peduncle always short. 
Flowers usually about 1} lines long , pubescent outside, the inner seg- 
ments a earing narrower in the ruiting specimens than in those m 
which the tube remains undeveloped. Ovary villous. pac perianth 
ovoid, pubescent, about 2 lines long.— Schlecht. Linnea, XX "5 
Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 255; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 318; C. piligera, 
Schlecht. init xxi. 446; C. tasmanica, Meissn. l.c. 252; C. rugulost, 
Meissn. 1. c. 255. 
ensland. Hervey Bay and Sandy Cape, R. Bro 
al Port Jackson, very common, ve h.l. p HAMM] Fraser, 
Wovlls and others ; Hastings ri river, B a -Row Eng! "d. Stu 
Glen nelg river, n bertson ; Port Phillip, Gani j Melodie Adamson; 
Wilson's Eisen], F. Mue Ee. 
. Brown ai in many parts of the island, J. D. Hoo 
fra ‘Australie, From is neg to St. Vihcont's Gulf, F. Mueller ; Port Lincoln, 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 147 ; Murchison river, ed ae latter speci 
mens and others from Drummond, n. 10, very bad and therefore doubtful 
5. C. pheeolasia, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 107. Very near o poet 
