•ICONES PLANTARUM. 39 



pnbescens, tubo incurvo, ad faucem parum dllatato ; labium siiperius 

 1^ lin. longum, erectum, latum, emarginatum ; inferins paullo longius, 

 patens, late 3-lobum, Stamina e labio snperiore exserta, antlieris 

 ovatis loculis parallelis, Ovarmm post antbesin paullo auctnm hirsu- 

 tum, lobis truncatis supra squamellis prominentibus quasi crenulatum. 

 Nuculoi maturee adhuc ignotse. 



This very distinct species, said to be very ornamental, was placed in 

 Achyrospermum, from its inflorescence, and from the minutely scaly 

 apex of the young nucules, although it is not known what form they 

 assume when ripe. The flowers are very much larger than those of 

 anj^ other known species of Achy ros2)ermum.—G. Benxham. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil. 



Plate 1250. 



HETEEACHIfE GITLLIVEEI, Benth. 



Geamine.^, Tribe Festucage.e. 



Eeteracnne^ Benth. Spictcla^ planse, flore nnico hermaphrodito fertili, 

 glumis supra florem plurimis vacuis v. paleam parvam foventibus, 

 rliacln sub flore articulato supra florem flexuoso continue. Gluraa' 

 exaristatjB, carinatos, 2 exteriores yacuas persistentes, florida superiores- 

 que cum fructu deciduas, carina alata, lateribusl-nervibus. Palea glumse 

 subsequalis, dorso 2-alata. Styli breves, distincti. Caryopsis palea 

 'jlumaque inclusa, libera. 



H. GuUiveri, Benth. FL Austral, vii. ined., spiculls suborbiculatis 



lasciculato-capitatis, fasciculis in spicam iuterruptam pedunculatam 

 dispositis. 



Hab. Between Norman and Gilbert Eivers, Carpentaria, North 

 Australia, Gulliver, 



Merba gracilis, erecta, subsemipedalis, glabra- Folia angusta. 

 bpicmarum fasciculi subglobosi, 2-3 lin. diametro, in spicam termina- 

 lem pedunculatam dispositi, sessiles, inferiores distantes, superiores 

 sessiles. Spiculoi sessiles, orbiculata?, vix lineam diametro. Bhachis 



iulorum 



Glumce exteriorco vacuse florida 



