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and terminating in oblong or narrow beak with a lateral stigma 
close to the end laser turned. down towards the lower lobe of the 
perianth as the limb e expands. Fruit a small indehiscent turbinate or 
obeonical nut, the apex broad flat or concave, covere idi: a coma of 
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compound heads, or solitary on E peduncles or variously pani 
culate on dem ry or terminal peduncles, each flower sessile within a 
broad s ing persistent bract, the rhachis of the sta often some- 
ias is limited to Australia, and the greater number of species to — ical 
tralia. Amo: ong the Eastern species, the most common one extends o within 
i dept The M sus er o rey and fruit are Sete bly uniform in th e whole 
merum.—Perianth-lobes as long as or longer than the tube, nearly 
cal and eading, the cavity in one the anthers are placed forming the summit of 
tube ed fei more gibbous on the upper side. 
Spikes in a dense c. compound et — at the base of - 
long leaves terminating a dwarf stem. Perianth villou r 
item linear. Perianth-lobes hots as long as the tube 1. C. capitatum. 
wwe linear-lanceolate. Perianth-lobes much longer than ‘the ES SR 
ed in leafless panicles. Leaves only at the base of ‘the atom; 
Peria th glabrous. 
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aves iiio rush-like. Spikes in a compact Mer Pee f 
Panicle. Perianth 3 in. long 3. C. teretifolium. 
aves flat, linear or lanceola te. Spike ikon or bends à in ani iniri- 
d pue divaricate flexuose ‘panicle. GET j a "k e x 
Stor. 2. Eucon 3 long as or shorter than 
; ospermum.— Perianth-limb 2-lipped, a 
d the upper lip very broad, concave over the jm Bord the jm with 3 narrow 
Flowers 
glabrous or ubescent, not woo 
jme ET to the inflorescence. pom not corymbose. 
P ebara ddr tar: axillary, short and gne spiked. 
Leaves 1 to 2 in, long, terete, rigid and yongert pint, 
— white lobes as lon, dies s the tu fon 
es un F t n e- 
5 Ganth mor linear. fug no punge ‘ah p 
Mines terminal, or if in the upper axils leafy at the 
UM e, single- spiked and short 
vi ia oblong E E qa Ios C. nervosum 
Leaves Cat terete, ‘grooved above UN S vs C. difusum, 
5. C. acerosum. 
