404 ; CXXII. IRIDES. [Patersonia. 
the bracts, and in the equality or inequality of the ribs of the leaves, all of which are 
very variable in the ra "x occidentalis. No mention is made of the flowers, stamens, 
or style of any one “of t 
4. P. umbrosa, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 31. Stems short, with the 
- short scales outside the leaves more numerous than in most species, the 
whole plant glabrous except the perianth-tube. Leaves usually very 
; hen above 2 ft., n nder 3 lines broad. Spike " in. e 
mpressed, the outer bracts acuminate and acutely keele 
pce cars or ga: obscurely striate. Perianth blue, the tube cod derit 
longer ome the bracts, slightly silky- pubescent, the outer segments 
above lin. long, the inner ones linear-subulate, often 2 lines long. | 
‘Staminal-tube rather long and slender, the fi aments scarcely free 
immediately under the anthers. Style showing no articulation in the | 
specimen examined, the limb shortly campanulate below the division 
into perie laminze.— Genosiris umbrosa, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 32. 
tralia. King iain s Sound, Preiss, n. 9348, F. Mis. ; Middle Mount | 
Barren, poire also in 
| xanthina, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 914. A glabrous plant, with 
ine Tie the long leaves, the long acuminate much compressed acutely 
smooth outer bracts , and all the E floral characters of 
P. umbrosa, but the flowers are said to b yellow, and the buds show 
none of the blue ME of all the allied species. The perianth-tube in the 
Specimen examined was rather shorter and more hairy than in P. umbrosa, 
and the inner ae nts not quite so narrow, but I could detect no. 
other difference, and the plant may is a variety only of that ene 
Genosiris wanthina, F. Muell. Ade i, 93. 
W. Australia. Geo Oldfield; Busselton, Pries (mixed with P. o 
dentalis).—There are aiin Trid t ia which the same species appears to include eee 
flowered and yellow-flowered varieties, 
slender, the filaments very shortly free at the apex. St ns emt 
nearly at the base of ^ anthers, the stigmatic lamine stipitate oval- 
oblong. 
W. Aus King George’ s Sonnd and adjoining districts, Baxter, Drummond, 
Preiss, n. 2549, v "Mueller ; Champion bay, Oldfield. 
| P. juncea, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 58. Almost stemless and quite 
glabrous, or the young leaves slightly ciliate. Leaves in dada 
