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NOTES ON XYRIS. 505 
There is seen to be a rt geographical separation between 
the species which form eastern and western ups are 
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has apparently reached only the north of the continent, while the 
range of the former extends southward into New South Wales. 
ASTERN SPECIES 9 
(Including Tasmania) Western SPEctEs 5 
X. complanata) Indo- X, flexifolia 
X. pauciflora Malayan X. gracillima 
As jabadises _ XX, lanata 
X. gracilis X. laxiflora 
X. juncea X, lacera 
X., ustulata 
III, Various New Sprrcizs. 
I append descriptions of several new species from various parts 
of the world. Those of most interest are the two from New 
Caledonia, from which the genus does not seem hitherto to have 
been recorded. The types will be found seh ae National Herbarium. 
X. Ridleyi, sp.nov. (Pl. 403, figs. 12-16.) Planta cxspitosa 
glabra gracilis foliis anguste linear ibus ‘outs gentibus vix rigidulis 
staminibus . . . fructu xia cudactints cum ‘placentis ‘tetbe 
meine 
Leaves not exceeding 1:25 mm. in breadth, 12-20 cm. long, 
including the short broader scarcely keeled sheath (about 2°5 em. 
long). Several peduncles spring from a single leaf-tuft; sheaths 
to 8 cm. long, with a short (to 1 cm.) free apical portion ; peduncles 
to 45 cm. long, ‘5--7 mm. thick; spikes 7-9 mm. and slightly 
narrower; of a dull chestnut-brown colour, the outermost barren 
pair flat elliptical, emarginate, 3mm. long, the second (also barren) 
broader obovate subconcave, 4 mm. long; fertile bracts a 
ellipsoid in outline ee of a broadly open boat-shape, the n 
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