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627. S. rotundifolium B. Br. 



Isdell River, near Mt. Bartlett (W.V.F.). 



Lea^'es sometimes spathulate, to |in. long, including the 

 petioles; flowers pink with red blotches at the base of the 

 segments; capsule 1-lJin. long. In rocky spots. 



628. S. irriguum W.Y.F., n. sp. 



A slender erect annual, bearing a slig'ht glandular pubescence 

 on the flowers, otherwise glabrous; leaves radical, closely 

 approximated but not rosulate, spathulate, tapering into 

 a long petiole; scapes fllifonn, solitary or 2-3 from the one 

 stock, the flower at first solitary and shortly pedieulate 

 above a bract; ultimately a branch or bracteolate pedicel 

 grows out from the axil of the bract and leaves usually a 

 second flower; occasionally the scape bears 3-5 sessile 

 flowers ; calyx-lobes connate into two almost orbicular entire 

 lips; corolla exceeding the calyx, the two larger lobes some- 

 what connate, without appendages; capsule \-ery slender. 



Messmate Creek, in the Packhorse Range; Isdell and Charnley 

 Rivers (W.V.F.). 



Total height of plant 2-3in. Leaves, laminae, 2-3 Hues; petioles 

 J-|in. long. Calyx-lobes f line long. Corolla pale- 

 yellow or white, scarcely 2 lines long. Capsule to nearly 

 |-in. long. In moist sandy soil. 



Affinity to S. rotundifolium R. Br. 



629. S. fissilobum F. v M. 



Hann, Adcock, Barnett and Isdell Rivers CW.Y.F.). 

 Flowers red. In wet soil. 



630. S. claytonioides W.V.F., n. sp. 



An annual, glabrous excepting the calyx-lobes, the whole plant 

 of a reddish hue; stems with alternate subulate almost 

 bract-like leaves, and surmounted by a tuft of terete obtuse, 

 succulent leaves; scapes erect, filiform, from few to many 

 together, bracteate, each bearing a solitary sessile flower ; 

 calyx-tube long and slender, when in flower appearing as 

 a prolongation of the scape and scarcely distinguishable 

 from it, the lobes connate into broadly spathulate or almost 

 orbicular entire glandular-ciliate lips; corolla-lobes equal, 

 entire, about as long as the tube; no appendages to t'e 

 throat or to the small concave obtuse labellum; column 

 broad and flat; anthers comparatively large; capsule nar- 

 row-linear, slinhtly beaked, the valves on dehiscing sur- 

 mounted 1)y the persistent calyx-lobes. 



Between Isdell Range and Mt. Bartlett (W.Y.F.). 



Stems ?,-]Jin. high. T^eaves under lin. long, sometimes green. 

 Scapes 3-5in. high. Calvx-lobes scarcely 1 line Ions'. 

 Corolla 3 lines long, bright-red. Column to ?,in. long. 

 Capsule 1-1 ^in. long. 



