452 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Conosty/is. 
arrow-lanceolate and nearly equal or 3 inner ones rather smaller. 
Bisaia all equal, the filaments slender, erect and at least as long as 
e small narrow anthers. Placentas in the adnate part of the Dy 
dilated, with the ovules reflexed from the under surface.—End 
Pl. Preiss. ii. 17. 
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 1408. 
5. C. aurea, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 44. Stem or rhizome short. 
Leaves flat, rigid, prominently veined, often 1 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines 
Ac ripis 
WV. Austr Drummond, 1st coll. n. 750, 759, Preiss, n. 1381, 
1382, and eR gare nd Cage Naturaliste, Oldfield. 
6. C. melanopogon, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18. A low species, but 
the pre” ga lees omg branching and elongated to 2 in. or rat ther 
more. 
to 14 lines broad, striate, glabrous except the margins vem has 
~ bearing 1 or 2 bracts, 
the upper one rodica into a Mond point. Flowers 6 to 105 in a termi- 
nal head, the subtending bracts narrow and short. Perianth plumose- 
woolly outside, with longer keo often turning to a dark colour, more or 
less hairy or woolly inside, about 3 iu. long; lobes about as long as the 
free part of the tube, but irregularly separating, the three inner ones 
shorter and more petal-like than the outer. Anthers oblong, on rather 
thick geome any the 3 inner ones much shorter than the outer. Pla- 
centas in the adnate part.of the ovary, projecting and dilated, the 
ovules iot numerous, reflexed from the under surface ; conical apex of 
the bc. is and narrow. 
er, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 754, Preiss, n. 1387 ; Kalgan 
in d near MR sea, Moon ets of Stirling bes F. Mu eller ; Perongerup, Mrs. 
Knight.—V ery near [/ setigera, but without the long sete to the leaves of that specioh 
and the perianth less deeply divide 
Var. major. Perianths 7 to 8 lin long. Vasse river, Pries; Swan river, Helmich. 
. ©. setigera, R. Br. Prod. 300. Short leafy stems much branched 
in rote tufts. Leaves rather flaccid, flat but very narrow and grass- 
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