408 x CXXII. IRIDEX. vac 
nerves. Flowers blue, avem but so on injured by worms in the 
specimens examined that I have been unable to ascertain the structure 
of the — ic the anthers and large reflexed stigmatic lobes 
quite these o 
wW. waa Vica Swan river, Drummond. 
17. P. inzequalis, Benth. Stems lengthening to 1 or 2 im. and 
covered with the closely imbricate distichous bases of the leaves, which 
are rigid, erect, under 1 ft. long, 1 to 14 lines broad, very strongly 
striate, and loos sely silky- -woolly towards the hys on both surfaces. 
prominen t base so as to give the spike an puerta gibbous as rate 
Flowers few. Ovary somewhat hairy. Perianth-tube glabrous, about 
as ser " hend bracts ; outer segments of the limb obovate, 3 in. long, 
the very short, broadly obovate or orbicular. Staminal 
a: o pee, the filaments very shortly free at the apex. Style 
articulate at or about the m 
W. Australia. Stokes Inlet, Maxwell, 
18. P. graminea, Benth. Stems exceedingly short, “con ge on the 
rhizomes, the outer brown scales and bases of the s thickened 
almost into bulbs. _ Leaves very narrow, flaccid, eati veined, 
young ” Seap slender, terete, Pasi 1 ft. long, covered at the base 
with a white cotton wool, glabrous from the middle upwards. Spikes 
9 to 10 lines poe the sa brat inserted above the lowest, but not 
so i semen re at t as in P. inaequalis, both of them finely ribbed. 
open, but in the bud the pinihit column is very s short, the st 
articulate at the base of the anthers, the stigmatic lobes ‘dilated at 
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 196 and 5th coll., n. 326. 
| - babianoides, Benth. Rhizome short with the stem and 
leaves deer bulbous at the base as in P. graminea. Leaves l or 
nly n. long, 3 or 4 lines broad in the middle but tapering 
