Ee CXIV. SANTALACEA, 221 
Var.? lept aie Branches much more slender, rarely spinescent.—Dirk Hartog's 
‘alaind; - Duniingións 
2. L. Preissiana, A. DC. Prod. xiv. 078. Branches erect, rather 
rigid, ‘terete, slightly striate with raised lines, leafless at the pim of 
fowering, the minute scale-like linear-subulate leaves on the 
slender WE falling off very early. Flowers in little lateral hic 
loose racemes, mostly on the previous year's branches, the rhachis 
2 to 6 lines. Bracts situe ovate- dibetitó: slightly denticulate, 
falling off so early that: they are never seen on specimens in 
flower. Perianth apparently white, scarcely 1 line jin the narrow 
turbinate adnate portion tapering into a very short me the lobes 
quite continuous without any external rim.— Choretrum Preissianum, 
Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 608. 
W. Australia. Et river, its Preiss, n. 2101. 
o 
ens. Perianth greenish-white, about 1 line long, the lobes as 
long as the narrow tube. Fruit succulent : rod. xiv. 680; 
L. aphylla, A: DC. lc. 677, partly but not “a R Br; EN Lehmanni, 
Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 614, A. DC. Le. 678 
W. Australia. King Getege's Sound and adjoining districts, R. riget = 
Dinnington Oldfield, F. Mueller, Drummond, 2nd. coll. n. 229, 3rd coll. n 
Preiss, n. 2107, 2121; Vasse river, ’ Oldfield. 
L. scrobiculata, R. Br. Prod. 354. A shrub with numerous 
slender slightly angular ranches gas at the time of flowerin 
in a cavity of the Phsehis, the subtending bracts ovate acute and ve 
deciduous, leaving sometimes a tooth-like scar. Perianth-tube shortly 
