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Conostylis. | CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 439 
qe with numerous ovules.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18; Bot. Mag. 
t. 2989. 
, A. Cun- 
395, and many others; Greenough flats, C. Gray, 
and Murchison river, Oldfield, single specimens, but apparently the same species, which 
re 
27. ©: laxiflora, Benth. Stems tufted, very short. Leaves mostly 
above 1 ft. long, flat, striate, 14 to 24 lines broad, bordered when 
young by very short cilia as in C. serrulata. Scapes short, not above 
6 in. high including the inflorescence, loosely tomentose-villous, brffnch- 
ing from about the middle, each branch with a short loose raceme of 
3 or 4 flowers, the whole forming a loose oblong somewhat one-sided 
anicle. Bracts subtending the ‘hiandbies lanceolate, membranous, vil- 
ous, sometimes above } in. long, those under the pedicels small and 
W. Australia. Vasse river, Oldfield.—Although allied in some respects to C. 
serrulata, this differs from the rest of the section in the indumentum of the perianth, 
and from the whole genus in its inflorescence. 
98. C. cymosa, F. Muell. Herb. Leafy stem short, tufted or shortly 
branched. Leaves often above 1 ft. long, 1 to near 3 lines broad, finely 
plumose-tomentose outside, glabrous inside, the lobes narrow, nearly 
twice as long as the free part of the tube. Anthers linear, longer than 
the filaments. Placentas stipitate, covered all over with numerous 
ovules. 
W. Australia. Blackwood river and Champion bay, Oldfield; Greenough flats, 
C. Gray ; Busselton, Pries. 
short 
pla- 
segments, Anthers oblong, shorter than in C. ta, on igi 
filaments. Style rather short. Ovules numerous, covering the 
centas. Capsules 3 to 4 lines diameter. 
