500 NOTES ON XYRIS. 
. X. compranata R. Br. Prodr. 256 (1810) ; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
Vii. 77 (1878), cetera var. ? leptocaulis Benth 
Br. = 
X. laevis 
».& sinbra B: Br. 
X. elongata Rudge in : Trans. Linn. Soe. x. 289, t. 15, fig. 1 (1811). 
North Australia.—Carpentaria, Brown, no. 5782 (X. complanata 
R. Br.!), no. 5729 (X. Tis R. Br. !), no. 5780 (X. scabra BR. Br. !) 5 
Port Essington, Armstrong; Port Darwin, Schomburgk ; Kunckey’s 
Lagoon, Adelaide River, and Palmerston, Lea ; ape York, 
MacGillivray, Hann no. 94; Bathurst Island, Cunningham, nos. 6, 
7, 800 
Queensl land, —Endeavour River and Point Look- out, Banks é 
ena Bay, Dallachy; Moreton Bay, Stuart; between i Pies 
maurice and Victoria river, near Dele river, and mouth o 
Vietoria river, &c., Mueller. 
ew South Wales, —Port Jackson, Brown, no. 5731, Fleming (X. 
Sane Rudge!), Caley, Cunningham, Woolls : Mount Mitchell, 
Beckler 
I ics not seen var. bracteata Benth. from Moreton Bay. 
2. X. pavorrnora Willd. Phytogr. i. 2, t. 1 (1794); Benth. 1. c. 
77, oo synon. X. paludosa Br. 
usilla R. Br. & X. dcreitata Be Br. Prodr. 256. 
North Australia.—Around lagoon near Mt. McAdam range, 
Mueller. 
denticulata R Br ! X. pusilla R. Br.!), Cunningham, » 9, B56. 
X. denticulata Br. and X. pusilla Br. seem inseparable from X 
pauciflora. X. pusilla was a MS. species of Solander’s; there is a 
figure by James Miller in the series of Cook’s drawings; it is a form 
with short broad ensiform leave 
It may be worth pointing out that ‘‘v.v.’’ appended to bears 8 
diagnosis of X. pusilla (Prodr. 256) should read “ B. v It 
appears both from the herbarium and his MS. that Brown tid not 
collect the plant; hig on teed is drawn up entirely from those 
gathered by Banks and Solan 
3. X. patuposa R. Br. Pr ae 
This atied | is included by Bentham in X. pauciflora Willd. 
along with X. denticulata and X. pusilla, all of which, together with 
specimens assigned by Brown to X. pauciflora, were oe by 
Banks and Solander at Endeayour River. Bentham says f 
species enumerated by Brown “appear to me to differ aly in size 
ished from p Seton pp ee rience 
wale very narrow lateral sepals, and large black narrowly ellip- 
