Ujpacridea.'] FLORA of I asm am a. 
onlv. denselv 
oral aspect the mountain Vandani of India, or 
large pith, sometimes branch 
3-5 feet long, shining ami .■iinjil.- 
caul at the sheathing base; margins toothed and cartilaginous. Panicle* compound, axillar 
first hidden by lanceolate, distichous, equitant, spathaceous bracts. 2-fi inches long, wlii. 
as the compressed peduncle elongates. Flowers very small, i inch long, on short pedicels. Calyx short, blunt. 
Capsules \ inch across, with short persistent styles. Ilypogynoit* scales short, much broader than bug, olwuivU 
lobed.— Gunn remarks that the undeveloped panicles attain a considerable size several years before they an destined 
to flower, and that after fruiting they persist for some years more.— Plates I.XWIY. and l.WW 
sketch of entire plant; B, young leaf and inflorescence; C, expanded inflorescence; />, young leaf-bud; E, old 
leaf :— all of nat. size. Fig. 1, portion of leaf; 2, flower; 3, same, with corolla removed ; k stamens and pistil ; 
5, stamen; 6, pistil and hypogynous scales; 7, longitudinal, and 8, transverse section of ovary; 9, fruit —all 
magnified. 
Prodr. 555) j subarborea, caule ramoso, foliis (pedaHbna) e baa \agi- 
nata longissime lanceolatis margine scaberulis, paniculis fcerminalibus elongatia contract is puberulis, (lori- 
bus longiuscule pedicellatis, calycibus minimis, filamentu < 1< iigaus.— Quill. le. Li///, t. 3 ; . 
769. (Gunn, 517.) 
Hab. Mount Wellington, elev. 3000 feet, Brown, elc.—{¥\. Oct.) (r. p.) 
A singular and very - height of J. 0—1 2 feet on tlie wooded -lope-, of Mount Welling- 
ton, but as it ascends ass sled, sparingly branched. I. met* numerous, at the 
ends of the branches, 1-2 feet long, -§— | inch broad, flexuous ; margins scaberulous. Panicles terminal, nodding. 
contracted, a foot long, 3 inch,- broad, witli deciduous, large, r _],\. »h, athing brael.-, tlial have broadly-ovate liases. 
and long, slender, rigid apices. Peduncle and rachis puberulous. Padfoefe alender. Flower* | ind 
very small, five-lobed. Corolla clavate, white and pink. JnHkan wars long. Fruit small. 
3. Richea Gunnii (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 273) ; fruticulus erectus, foliis (uncialibus) 
subsquarroso-recurvis lanceolato-subulatis acuminatis pungentibus marginibus brevibus, spica terminali 
erecta elongata, floribus parvis in ramulos abbreviates subsessilibus, calycibus 5-partitis segmentis late ovatis 
corolla latiuscula £ brevioribus, filamentis gracilibus. (Gunn, 859.) (Tab. LXXXVI.) 
Hab. Summit of Mount Wellington and the Western Mountains, elev. 4-5000 feet, Gunn. [v. v.) 
Disteib. Mountains of Victoria, elev. 5-6000 feet, Mueller. 
A small, rigid, erect species, 1-5 feet high, much resembling in foliage, etc, tytt c mt k t y>remelioides, but 
readily distinguished by its terminal paniculate inflorescence. Leaves imbricating, ;-l | inch long; margins quite 
smooth, or (under a lens) very minutely scaberulous. Panicles,or compound spikes, erect, 8-10 inch) a long, pnbern- 
lous, when young covered with short, broad, imbricating bracts. Flower* shortly-pedicelkd, upon wry short lateral 
branches. Calyx quinquepartite ; segments broadly-ovate, half as long as the short tinged corolla, \\hieh is about \ 
inch long. Hypogynous scales rounded, truncate.— This is readily distinguished from 8. frmcofkulla by the small- 
sized leafy branches, short leaves with smooth margins, slender, erect spikes, and much smaller flow» ra, irith calyces 
half the length of the corolla. Mueller's specimens from the Australian Alps hare very long -}■■-. 
larger flowers. In the 'London Journal of Botany' I have erroneously considered this to be the alpine state of 
R. dracopkylla, to which Brown alludes in his ' Prodromus,' and which is, 1 suspect, the following.- -Plate 
LXXXVI. Fig. 1, flower; 2, stamens and pistil; 3, stamen; 4, ovary and scales ; 5, transverse, and 5, longitudinal 
section of ovary : — all magnified. 
4. Richea scoparia (Hook. fil. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 273) ; fruticulus erectus robustus, foliis 
suberectis dense imbricatis (1-2-uncialibus) strictis recurvisve lanceolatis subulatisve marginibus scaberulis, 
