108 Descriptive Characters of 
rarely ovate, acute, short-mucronate, gradually tapering into 
the petiole, penninerved, veined, with slightly recurved 
margin, above smooth, beneath with branchlets and rachis 
grey-silky; racemes pedunculate, axillary and terminal, 
elongate, sometimes divided, drooping, their development 
centripetal; calyces three times longer than the pedicel ; 
outside rutilous, silky; inside, below the middle, white- 
bearded; style long-exserted, glabrous or scantily hairy at 
the extremity; germen-stalked, glabrous; stigma sublateral, 
ovate, slightly umbonate; follicle ellipsoidal, thinly ribbed, 
glabrous. 
Along the waters of the Buffalo Range, on the summits of 
Mount Buller and Mount Tambo, on the sources of the 
Mitta Mitta, at Mount Hotham and Mount Latrobe. 
A truly majestic plant, when, by descending into the 
vallies, it assumes a height of twelve feet and more. In higher 
altitudes it becomes a dwarfer bush, with shorter, almost 
ovate leaves. 
26. Orites lancifelia. 
(Sect. Acroderris.) ‘ 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, flat, glabrous, blunt, net-veined, 
perfectly entire; spikes axillary and terminal, sub-solitary ; 
calyx smooth; germen silky-downy, follicle silky. 
On the rocky summits of the the Australian Alps (5-6,000 
feet high), for instance on Mount Wellington, MountHotham, 
Mount Latrobe, in the Munyang Mountains, in the upper 
valleys of the Mitta Mitta, &c. 
This fine shrub is besides Grevillea Victoria the only real 
alpine species of this natural order indigenous to the Austra- 
lian continent. But I am uncertain whether it may prove to 
be identical with O. Milligani, of which hitherto no description 
has been given. 
CYPEROIDEAE. 
27. Scirpus polystachyus. 
Stems tall, trigonous, foliate, glabrous; leaves flat, on the 
keel and margins scabrous; cyme terminal, many times com- 
pound, little shorter than the three or five bracts of the invo- 
lucre; spikelets ovate-oblong, partially solitary stalked, par- 
