268 THE FLOEA OF THE NOETHEBN TBERITOEY. 



Section IV. Xerocarpcea. — Herbs, undershrubs, or shrubs. Flowers 

 sessile or nearly so in the axils of floral leaves or bracts, all or the upper ones 

 forming a terminal dense or interrupted and leafy spike. 



Series I. Globuliferce. — Ovary 2-ceUed. Hairs on the back of the indu- 

 sium short or few or scattered. Flowers rather large (usually blue), with rows 

 of soft bristles or subulate teeth tipped with minute white tufts descending in 

 the throat from the margins of the lobes. — 2. S. angulata. 



Series II. Macrostachyoe. — Ovary 2-celled. Hairs on the back of the 

 indusium short or few or scattered. Flowers usually smaller than in Globuli- 

 ferss (white?) with very few or no penicUlate bristles within the throat. Fruiting 

 spike usually continuous with small bracts. 



Branching tomentose-vUlous shrub. Leaves small, entire mostly sessile. — 

 9. S. reyoluta. 



Glabrous or viscid shrubs. Leaves petiolate, broad, toothed. — 6. S. 

 ovalifolia. 



Undershrubs or herbs. Leaves linear or lanceolate. 

 Leaves 1 in. or under. — 5. S. macrostachya. 

 Leaves over 1 in. long. — 7. S. panioulata. 



Series III. Pogogynece. — Ovary 2-ceUed. Indusium with a dense tuft of 

 hairs at the base on the back as long as the indusium itself. — 1. S. ambly- 

 anthera. 



1. S. amblyanthera, F. v. M. — Granite vaUeys of the Upper Nicholson 

 River, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller. 



2. 8. angulata, R. Br. — South Goulburn Island, A. Cunningham ; islands 

 of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



3. 8. Gunninghamii, DC. — Dampier's Archipelago, A. Cunningham ; 

 Nichol Bay, Gregory's Expedition. 



4. 8. Koenigii, Vahl. — ^N. Coast, A. Cunningham ; mouth of the Victoria 

 River, F. v. Mueller. Young leaves eaten as a pot herb. The pith yields 

 " rice paper." The wood is also useful. 



5. 8. macrostachya, Benth. — Lacrosse Island, Cambridge Gulf, and 

 Regent's River, A. Cunningham ; Usborne's Harbour, Bynoe. 



6. 8. ovalifolia, R. Br. — Sandstone tableland. Upper Victoria River, 

 F. V. M. ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Sweers Island, Henne. 



7. 8.'paniculata,EwartandDavies{F\&t&'K.'Kni.). — Shrub or undershrub, 

 hirsute all over with fairly long silky hairs. Leaves lanceolate, 1 to l|^in. long, 

 passing into the bracts, which are about | in. long and somewhat broader. 

 Flowers sessile, in rather dense leafy spikes. Corolla about ^in. long, slightly 

 hairy outside. Near to S. macrostachya, but has larger leaves, is more 

 tomentose, and the inflorescence is a raceme of spikes. Sandstone Ranges, 

 near Western Creek, G. F. Hill (774), 16/2/1912. 



8. 8. parvifoUa, F. v. Jf.— 110 miles N. of Survey Camp, G. F. Hill 

 (411), 1/7/1911 ; 40 miles W. of camp at Lander Creek, G. F. HiU (366), 

 21/6/1911. 



Recorded. Hooker's Creek, F. v. MxieDer. 



9. 8. revoluta, R. Br. — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; 

 Sea Range and Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. 



10. 8. spinescens, R. Br. — Dampier's Archipelago, A. Cunningham. 

 Prickly fanflower. 8. depauperata, R. Br. — Recorded from North Australia 

 in National Herbarium Census. 



