358 CIV. PROTEACES. ( Stirlingia. 
. S. tenuifolia, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. 81. Leaves on rather 
lo ipsis crowded at the base of i" plant, or on a more or less 
elongated leafy stem, repeatedly dichotomous, the segments terete, di- 
varicate, very fine in the typical Is ome nes all under 4 in. long, 
more frequently about J in. or lon e leafless, sometime s few- 
headed and scarcely exceeding ae urs more frequently rather loose 
and 6 in. to 1 ft. long. Spikes or heads on slender peduncles, rather 
small. am pale yellow, 8 to 20 in the spike. Bracts ver all, 
ovate, acute. Perianth 2 to 21 lines long, constricted under the limb, 
Stigma imn or TRY peltate. Nuts » densely comose.—Meissn. 
| imsi ifoli n Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 
EAD aa eee ECT. 
Pl. Preiss. i. 516, a "uds DC. ear xiv. 
ue "s alia. King George's Sound (^ adioining districts, R. Brown, Harvey, 
Drumm h coll. n. 263, Preiss, n. 771, Oldfie 44, F. Mueller; Mount Melville, F. 
Moor mal specimens not above 6 in. high and flowering the first year so as t0 
appear annual). 
Var. a oth ifolia. Leaves more NA Apen of fewer spikes on pe. 
5. S. latifolia, Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 9. An undershrub, the leafy 
stems rarely 1 ft. hi igh, simple or branching, the leafless i 
cluding the panicle 1 to 14 ft. long. Leaves once or twice 
wi Bat rigid vertical segments, broadly line 
and 2 to 4 in. long in the typical porno the who 
o v 
to 1 ft. long, narrow-linear and 1 in. long in ii 
specimens, cuneate-ob ong 2 to 4 in p and } to 1 in. broad in others 
a small callous point but rounded ‘at the end when broad. 
Panicle oblong, usually much branched, with minute bracts under the 
branches Spikes or heads globular, very nu s, on pedu neles of 
1 to 3 lines. Bracts very short, broad, truncate. Per th ‘varying in 
o 
0 
egi yellow, reddish at the base." Stigma broadly 
ate. Nut broadly turbinate, dense ey comose.—Meissn. in £4 9: 
i. 517, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 326; Simsia latifolia, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 5 
Stirlingia rie Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 30; Meissn. ll. ec. "E 
W. Aus 
others, roi hence to Swan ict, Drummond, ander, PR P TP wilds , j; Moe 
chison river, Old, 
readth of the leaf 
The cn eae is very vari a as to — bet size and b "t 
are represen 
e flowers ; the typical King George i int 
g ge's Sound specimens are in 
the tw perhaps nearer to the latter ‘hams to as an rmer, and there are ad d w 
ediates. In several flowers I observed the ovary abortive, with a short sty 
stigmatic dilatation. 
