428 €CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [ Zribonanthes. 
a loose cyme of 2 to 6, ew Pane as long as or longer than the ovary. 
Bracts lanceolate or lin Perianth-segments 5 to 7 lines, usually 
about 6 lines long, narrower than i in the other species, densely covered 
on both sides vl a white cottony wool, the- short erect bases distinct 
dd to the base of the anthers. Placentas pendulous, not half the 
length of the cells, Rand sape Mg several rows of ovules.— 
T URSE Endl. Pl. Preiss 
W. Australia em river, Drum on 1st coll. n. 763, 764; rue n. 1561; 
Upper Hs rived F. Mueller, Miss Warburton; King George’s Sound, Muir. 
4. CONOSTYLIS, R. Br. 
almost Eigen or 2 inner ones rather smaller. Stamens 
anthers oblong or linear, the cells at the base or to t iddl 
Ovary inferior or > para pr d 3-celled, the summit conical, taper- 
ing into a filiform style, with 3 mall adnate terminal stig 
Ovules several often numerous in each cell, crowded on a more or less 
stipitate placenta attached above the middle of the cell, and usually 
but not always in its inferior or adnate portion. Capsule opening locu- 
licidally at the free conical apex in 3 coriaceous valves, the style itself 
often persistent and splitting almost to the end. aves in distichous 
or crowded tufts on a short rhizome or tufted or taone tian ded 
stem, linear, sheathing at the base, the lamina laterally flattened or 
` terete. capes from the centre of the leaf-tufts more or less tomentose 
woolly, bearing 1 or more short sheathing bracts. Flowers usually 
of a dull dibus; more or less plumose-tomentose outside, in a termina 
head rarely lengthening out into a shortly dichotomous cyme. 
The genus is limited to West Australia, 
` Szcr. 1. Brachycaulon.—Perianth divided to the ovary into 6 spreading seg 
ments.  Anther Pe magi net, pendulous from a short connective. Placentas Aven 
with few ead ovul: 
nsely tufted SEE plant. Flowers in send heads almost : 
moe or on very short scapes within the leave . 1. C. breviscapa, 
a Perianth more or less tubular above the ovary, the lobes all 
equal or 3 inner ones Mille. Anther-cells adnate to the connective » least to the 
middle.  Placentas recurved, dilated, with several peed refleced from the under sur- 
face. (Perianth usually wit, with long hairs mixed with the plumose tomen 
nce virer or loosely hairy inside, with equal dis and 
Say terete, not striate. Flowers 2 or 8 together within 
several scarious bracts almost ssi within the leaves. . 2. C. vaginata. 
aves flat. Flowers in globular 
Leaves with thick margins, teenth ciliate. Scapes short, ie 
í ith 2 large concave keeled bracts under the head . . 8. C.petrophiloides. 
