NOTES ON XYRIS. 503 
formi-linearibus.”” I find no such difference in the types, the leaves 
of Labillardiere’s ee showing a nearer approach to filiform 
than those of Bro 
New South Wales. —Port Jackson, Brown, no. 5720 in part; 
ele Lhotsky ; ait Bay, Lowne; Hastings River, Becker ; 
w En ngland, Moo 
ictoria. —Mt. Abrupt, [Withelmi; Mt. Eversley, Rober rd 
eR Cuninemes Ca ulfield, French ; Dandenong, Muelle 
Tasmania. — Labillardiere ! Mileoee: Port Dal mple, pe 
no. 5720 in part ; Adventure Bay, Caley; Cunningham, no. 11; 
at no. 334 ; Flinders Island. 
9. X. Bracteata R. Br. Prodr. 256; Kunth, Enum. iy. 21. 
(Pl. 408, fig. 88.) 
X. operculata Labill. var. bracteata Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 80. 
I cannot agree with the of Shean of this species to the varietal 
position suggested by Bentham seems to me quite distinct, 
characterised not only by the 2 oa of the lower bracts and 
their pa re colour, but a by the flat comparatively broad 
(to nearly 4 mm.) linear leaves, the longer sepals with glabrous not 
hairy blunt tips, and the issiee "anthers, “which are moreover deeply 
lobed at the apex, and twice as long as their filament. 
Nilsson, who did not see the specimens, merely doubts as = 
which of the two species, X. opercutata or X. Brownei, Bentham 
var. bracteata should be assigned. 
ew South Wales.—Port Jackson, Brown, no. 5727. 
X. marginata, sp. nov. (Pl. 403, figs. 25-28, 30-832). 
Planta cum habitu X. operculate Lam. ‘sed spicis ellipsoideis vel 
subglobosis sublaxis, et nibastars ‘supra medium in mar, lata 
crispa fragili nigrescente expansis ; a lateralibus subfaleate- 
soideis parvis q enta triplo brevioribus; staminodiis in 
pilis densis te an deinen tibus ; ovario pyriformi 
eaves narrowly linear acute, 9-12 cm. long, a little over 1mm. 
broad, passing below into the scarious-margined crt brown 
g. Peduncles terete flexuose, 155-35 em. long, 
1 mm. or less in diameter; sheaths leafless, acute, 4°5- 6 cr cm. long; 
spikes 9-11 mm. long by 6-7 mm. broad; outermost sterile 
bracts oblong, 4-5 by 2 mm., passing i eit the form of the fertile 
bracts, which hay ovate or ovate-elliptical inconspicuously 
A ape. Petal limbs m. long an roa ; an 
ie ep 2 mm., tha aenists eee staminodes mune to the 
base e anthers; ov; fel 5 mm. long, with an enlarged 
seanaad hank and terminal mu 
Near X. operculata Labill., whieh it closely resembles in habit, 
but is at once distinguished by its laxer flower-heads, and the dark 
