Conostylis. | CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 431 
I have seen it from no other locality, but Schultz, Syst. vii. 294, evidently saw the true 
plant in Sieber's herbarium, and has correctly described it. 
middle. Placentas recurved, dilated, with several ovules reflexed from 
the under surface. 
2. C. vaginata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 23. Stems densely branched, 
forming tufts of 2 to 4 in. covered with the sheaths of old leaves. 
Leaves linear-terete, rush-like, channelled along the inner or upper 
side but not otherwise striate, 3 to 5 in. long. Flowers 2 to 4 together, 
‘sessile in little heads surrounded by imbricate scarious bracts and borne 
on very short hairy peduncles within the upper leaves. Perianth about 
J in. long, softly hairy outside, glabrous or slightly hairy within, the 
lobes narrow linear-lanceolate, about as long as the free part of the 
tube. Anthers longer than the filaments. Placentas in the adnate part 
of the ovary, projecting and dilated, with 3 or 4 ovules pendulous from 
the under side; the free summit of the ovary conical with a filiform 
style-—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 853. 
W. Australia. Upper Kalgan river, Oldfield, F. Mueller; towards Cape Riche, 
Preiss, n. 1383, and probably the same neighbourhood, Baxter, Jud. n. 444; 
West Mount Barren, sspe, 
W. Australia. Flats on the Phillips river, a single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller. 
4. C. setosa, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 44, t. 6. Stem very short.. 
Leaves flat, rigid, finely veined, often nearly 1 ft. long, 1 to 2 lines 
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shorter than the flowers. Perianth 10 lines to 1 in. long, very densely 
silky-woolly outside with long hairs plumose at the base, | 
hairy or woolly inside; lobes about as long as the cylindrical tube, all 
