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C. bracteata, Endl. Stem less elongated than in C. candicans. Leaves, 
although still densel tufted, more normally distichous, fr and 
more rigid, tomentose pubescent and rather white all over when young, 
but soon losing the tomentum. Scapes about as long as » the leaves. 
sui the free part of the tube. Ovules numerous, covering the short 
plac 
w. MORSU Swan river, Drummond, 1st co 
C. b acteata, Lindl., Swan Riv. App. 45, from "a same collection, — 
established on vigorous d s of C. disliens, with the foliage nearly glabrous, Fin 
eran EN j is hr . long, and the outer bracts under the flower-heads rather more 
assa; gemir bee nope from the edit five or six species, 
fina an cte 
21. C. Preissii, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18. Stems usuall ety 
Sn pile Leaves from distichous sheathing bases, flat, - 1 ft. 
ong, rarely above 1 line broad, rather thick, glabrous, Wine in 
rather loose ibina head, branching out saeua into a close cym 
the bracts short and narr ow. Perianth about j in. long, plu umose- 
tomentose outsi i with mixture of longer hairs, glabrous or very 
slightly hairy inside? ; lobe narrow, nearly twice as long as the free 
of the tube. Ovules numerous, covering the stipitate placentas. 
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 753, Preiss, n. 1384 ; Southern 
river, joues n. 1386. 
C. festucacea, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18 (Preiss, n. 1386) has the leaves almost a 
cilia and the perianth more hairy, but the two forms are too closely connected by som 
of Drummond's specimens to justify their separation. 
22. C. bracteata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 16, not of Lindl. Stems 
ctea 
short, pap sometimes sli pn hen "Leaves glabrous, flat, 
rigid, 1 to 14 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, striate, the margins prominen 
about as long as the leaves, loosely tomentose, with 1, 2, 
lanceolate bracts, and sometimes with a lo peduncle or branch in the 
axil of one of them. owers numerous, in a dense globose terminal 
head, subtended usually by 1 or 2 faicet bracts, the other bracts 
all CUR linear, all shorter than the flowers. Perianth nearl 4 in. 
ong, plumose-tomentose outside, glabrous or sym hairy i € e, the 
lobes iw is as ee as the free part of the tu n ye 
li mond, 1st coll. n. 751, Preiss, n. 1405. —The 
es seems to connect the preceding ones very "mete with ¢. aculeata, from whic = 
it differs in the leaves bardal ciliate, the longer scapes, larger heads of flowers, an 
the perianth more deeply lobed. 
