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soidal seeds half as large again as the brown or red-brown seeds of _ 
pauciflora 
The plant Nee collected in 1770 on Cook’s first voyage, and a 
drawing by Jam iller is one of the fine series preserved in the 
Department of Botan ; it was, however, not ina It may be 
of interest to append Solander’s MS. descri riptio 
yris paludosa. ‘* Habitat in peledian. foséis isque aquos 
Folia pauca, dimidio caule longiora, subfistulosa, rubicunda, isi 
aginantia. Vagina conyoluta s spatio sepe quadriunciali, scapum 
capus 
arcte includens us pedalis vel raro sesquipedalis, inferne 
rubicundus, teretiusculus, fistulosus, superne e triquetro parum 
compressus. Spica subrotundo-ovata, obtuse pentagona, tres vel 
quatuor lineas on a. Squame gibbosiores quam in [the species 
auheegnoney described as X. scabra R. Br.] magisque brunnex et 
ntes 
eu —Endeavour River, Banks ¢ Solander. 
4. X, ruexirouia R. Br. Prodr. 256; Benth. /. c. 78. 
— is see confusion between this species and X. gracillima 
X. flewifoli 
winked leaves 3-6 in. long, and short deep reddish-brown sheaths 
1~2 in. in length; the largest heads barely reach 8 lines in length. 
Bentham describes the stems as ‘usually 1 ft. high or ype more, 
with a single long brown sheath at the base,” and ‘ flower-head 
oblong or narrow-ovoid, 8-4 lines long’’; one incoree for 
X, flewifolia, but suiting X. gracillima. Other points of discrimi- 
nation duly noted by-Bentham are the jagged siask margins of the 
scales, narrow Postal limbs, and absence of staminodes in evi 
folia; and the entire black margin of the scales, broade r petal- 
ly and staminodes ending in a glabrous dilatation in X, gracil- 
lim 
W est Australia .—Princess Royal Harbour, King vias s Sound, 
Brown, no. 5723; Swan River, Drummond, no. 254 
5. X. cracririma Muell. Fragm. viii. 208 (1874) ; ne lL. c. 80. 
West Australia.—Drummond, no. 119, no. 354 in part. 
6. X. cracius R. Br. Prodr. 256; Benth. 1. c. 79, in part. 
New South Wales.—Between Sydney and Paramatta, Brown, 
no. 5725; Caley; Cox’s River, Cunningham, no. i ; Steber, 
no. 427 ; Hastings Rie, Beckler ; New Engla tua 
Victoria.—Port t Philip, marshy heaths at the foot ol Arthur’s 
Seat, Brown, no. 5724; Gippsland, Walter. 
Var. bracteata Benth. 1c. Bracts as in the species, but Page 
ichader the outer sometimes enlarged and spreading; heads sub- 
globose, and lateral sepals very br oad, 6 mm. jong by 1 ‘6-1: ; fai 
road, the breadth in the type not exceeding 1 m 
e have an interesting specimen from Port Faskaon, * sent to 
Sir J. Dake without radical leaves,’’ which puzzled Robert Brown, 
who gave it a “dubious” specific name in MS. It is perhaps a 
distinct ~ age 
New South Wales.—Port Jac 
Tasmania.—South Port, anal PUiiwila Head, Mueller. 
