Patersonia.) CXXII. IRIDEX, : 407 
13. P. rudis, Zndl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 29. This species is again 
closely allied to °P. sericea, het a coarser ibt; usually larger in al ^ 
tes and uppe 
onn of the scape and on 9 margins of € leaves near the base, si 
flowered spikes with dark-coloured prominently striate loosely woolly 
outer bracts the same as in the three s species.— Genosiris 
pond F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 35. 
W. Australia. Pret river, S EIER 1sf coll., n. 774, Preiss, n. 2347. 
14. P. macrantha, Stem very short and thick. Leaves 
above 1 ft. long, about 3 pm broad, neither very rigid nor marginate 
like those of P. limba ta, the keel often but not always woolly at the 
base. Scape flattened, above 1 ft. Meer in our specimens, s, silky-pubes- 
cent under the spike. Outer bracts about 3 in. long, very slightly 
Debs t, the upper 
lines broad, finely 
the stem, rather ev, rarely exceeding the leaves, either quite gla- 
brous as well as the spike, or the upper par rt silky-hoary with a very 
long, vi 
narrow, pale-coloured and often slightly s silky -hoary, PME, striate, 
with broad scarious margins. Perianth-tube shortly exceedin, 
bracts, thinly und at the base as RA as the ovary; outer segments - 
of the limb about $ in. long in some € above 1 in. in others ; 
Staminal column rather Ay ng and slender.—Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 7 
Genosiris glabrata, ; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 35; P. media, R. Br. Le. 
Queensland. Shoalwater " R. Brown; Moreton island, F. Muelle: 
.N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others . Hastings "em Clarence 
rivers, agg Mov Kaigani Q, go rt; Newcastle, 
pai Peak, F. Mueller ; entrance to om river, “O. Walter. 
species varies: s much i in the length of the stem, in that of the oner bracts, and in 
ihe Ete or pubesce ote na Mid ur acts, —R. Brown's P. media only differs from his 
glabrata in the latter respect. 
16. P. Drumm F. Muell. Herb. Stems very short. Leaves 
epe but very flat, glaucous, often twisted, the thickened nerve-like 
argins ciliate towards the base when young, the longest 6 to 8 in. 
