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In damp soil, occasionally associated with S. alsinoides R. Br. 

 The foliage and corolla readily distinguishes this species 

 from other members of the series Tenellae, section Nitran- 

 gium. Baron von ilueller received specimens from Mr. Jf. 

 Holtze, of Port Darwin, during 1885 and 1890, and referred 

 theni to S. alsinoides R. Br. yar. cordifolium. 



Affinity to S. alsinoides R. Br. 



622. S. rubriscapum W.V.r., n. sp. 



An annual, glabrous e.xeepting the flowers; stems sometimes 

 shortly proliferous; leaves along with lower jiortion of the 

 stem scattered, the upper ones collected in a dense whorl- 

 like tuft, linear, ending in rather long acute points; scapes 

 sub-ferminal, filiform, red, with 1-2 awl-shaped bracts above 

 the middle, one-flowered; calyx divided to the middle into 

 five ovate-lanceolate, obtuse lobes, almost or quite glabrous: 

 corolla glandular hairy, the tube rather short; lobes broad, 

 entire; appendages small or none to the throat and absent 

 from the small labellum; upper portion of the column 

 invested with yellow glandular hairs; capsule glabrous, 

 obovate, many-seeded. 



Calder River; Fessmate Creek in the Packhorse Range 

 (W.Y.r.). 



Stems l-2in. long. Leaves i-Jin. long. Scapes 2-3in. high 

 Calyx 2 lines long. Corolla about 3 lines long, yellow with- 

 out, red within. Ca]isule about 2 lines long. In moist 

 sandy soil. 



Affinity to S'. Floodii F. v. JM. 



623. ,9, leptorrhiza F. v M. 



Prince Regent's River (A. Cunn.) ; '^Yalcott Inlet; Calder, 



Charnley and Isdell Rivers (W.V.F.). 

 Flowers red. In damp spots. 



624. S. muscicola F. v M. 

 Sprigg River (W.T.F.). 

 Flowers pink. On wet cliffs. 



62.1. S. pachyrrhizum F. v M. 



IsdeU, Charnley, Calder and Sprigg Rivers (W.V.F.). 



Total height of plant to IJft.; leaves spathulate, 2-3in. long, 



tapering into the petioles ; corolla-lobes unequal, yellow 



without, red within. In moist soil. 



626. S. lobuliflorum F. v M. 



Isdell, Hann, Adcock and Charnley Rivers (W.V.F.). 

 Flowers pink. In wet sandy spots. 



