504 NOTES ON XYRIS. 
broad crisp apo margin of the bracts; the — are also charac- 
eristic, being broader, with the margin ragged throughout its 
length, not merely ciliolate at and below the apex as in X. opercu- 
‘ate The larger laxer heads and broad’ fimbriate lateral sepals 
—— it from the closely allied X. gracilis R. Br. 
smania.—In peat soil, Milligan. 
‘ X. nanata R. Br. Prodr. 257; Benth. /. c. 80. 
West Sittin. —King George's Sou nd, Brion, no. 5719, Cun- 
ningham, Fraser, Collie, Wakefield, Mueller, Grey; Swan River, 
Sescniibont no. 354 in part; Champion Bay, Bower. 
12. X. vaxrnora Muell. Fragm. viii. 203 (1874) ; Benth. 1. ¢. 80. 
West Australia.—Swan River, Drummond, nos. 202, 855; Vasse 
and Augusta Road, Gilbert. 
18. X. racera R. Br. Prodr. 257; Benth. 1. c. 78. 
West Aadtsidia. —King George’s Sound, Brown, no. 5721, Baxter ; 
Swan River, Drummond, nos. 200, 201, 329, and 854 in part; 
Augusta, Gilbert ; Wilson’s Inlet, Oldfield, no, 741. 
Var. teretifolia 
X. teretifolia R. Br. Pr odr. 257. Distinguished from the species 
by the highly scabrid leaves and peduncles, and the very stiff terete 
leaves and smaller spikes, rown says in his MS.: ‘* Proxime 
nena Xyridi lacere differt culmo foliisque scabris, capitulo minore 
ovato 
West Australia.—Sandhills near the shore at Lucky Bay. 
14. X. usrunata Nilss, in Kon. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xxiv. 
no. 14, 28 (1892). This species, which is nearly allied to the 
West Australian X. lacera, is described merely with the general 
ey “ Australia _(in herb. Holm. ve We have at the British 
I find the following note:— Xyris. Petals very lar 
Hither a distinct species or else it is very “tear Poe in 
marshy oath on fi side of Mount Banks. Nov. ig 
This seems to e X. operculata var. sie iphila “Benth. 
(Fi. Aiisbral. vii. 80) jie the Blue Mountains. Specimens collected 
in that district by Cunningham and ea in herb. Kew. are evi- 
dently conspecific with the above. It think, quite — 
from X. operculata; its large robust- kins heads attaining 1°8 ¢ 
in length and breadth, with a globose or broadly ovate form ; its 
broad bracts have moreover a characteristic dark crisped margin, 
W. e lateral sepals are not dorsally ciliate. It is distinguished 
aa X. lacera, th to which Nilsson places it, by its larger darker 
wi cri nee 
of reins Se oe not lacerate margins, and the presence 
