780 LXIV. EUBlAOteiE. [Spennacoce. 



10. S. Stenophylla (leaves slender), F. c. M. Fraym. iv. 43 ; Bentli. Fl. 

 Austr. iii. 442. Apparently perennial, with erect scarcely branched stems, 

 glabrous and smooth. Leaves long, narrow-linear. Stipular sheaths scarious, 

 rather long, the bristles usually short. Flowers in dense globular terminal or 

 occasionally lateral heads. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, rigidly ciliate, longer 

 than the very short tube. Corolla funnel-shaped, 3 lines long, slightly bearded 

 at the throat, the lobes nearly as long as the tube. Stamens inserted at the 

 orifice of the tube, nearly as long as the lobes. Capsule a little more than 1 line 

 long, the carpels opening at the top. 



Hab.: Sweers Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Hemie; Lawn Hill, Frank H. Hami. 



11. S. laevigata (smooth), F. v. M. Fiagtn. iv. 41 ; Bcnth. Fl. Austr. iii. 

 442. . Apparently perennial, glabrous and smooth, or hispid with a few scattc^red 

 rigid hairs, the stems erect, slightly branched, slender but rigid. Leaves long, 

 linear. Stipular bristles remarkably long. Flowers in dense terminal heads. 

 Calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, acute, more than twice as long as the tube. 

 Corolla nearly 4 lines long, the tube long and slender, slightly dilated upwards ; 

 lobes oblong-linear, rather above half as long as the tube. Stamens inserted at 

 the orifice of the tube, and nearly as long as the lobes. Carpels opening upwards. 



Hab.: Islands of Torres Straits. 



Var. (?) hispida. Whole plant move or less hispid. Leaves very acute, often above 2in. 

 long. — S. purpureo-cceridea, E. Br. Herb. Gulf of Carpentaria, E. Brown, 



Var. (?) dilatata. Calyx-lobes shorter. Floral leaves much dilated and coloured at the 

 base. — Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brmon. 



12. S. breviflora (flowers short), F. i\ M. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 442. 

 Annual, diffuse, and more or less hirsute. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 with recurved margins. Flowers in very dense terminal globular heads, often 

 above |in. diameter. Calyx-lobes lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate, much longer 

 than the tube. Corolla from 2J to about 3 lines long, the lobes about as long as 

 the rather broad tube, with a pair of glandular-toothed appendages oblique 

 and often united into one, at least at the base, occupying altogether one-third of 

 the lobe. Calyx-lobes usually recurved in the fruiting-head. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Brown. 



13. S. suffruticosa (undershrub), B. Br. Herb.: Bentli. Fl. Austr. iii. 443. 

 A rigid glabrous undershrub, with erect stems of about 1ft. Leaves linear, 

 clustered in the axils. Stipular sheaths short, with about 2 bristles on each side 

 dilated at the base, and sometimes united into a single lanceolate point. Flower- 

 heads terminal and lateral, forming a short forked cyme at the ends of the branches. 

 Calyx-lobes 2 only, short, linear. Corolla 2^ or nearly 8 lines long; the lobes 

 spreading, as long as the tube, with a longitudinal line of hairs inside each. 

 Stamens inserted at the orifice of the tube, and rather longer than the lobes. 

 Fruits obovoid, hard, the carpels separating, the dissepiment remaining attached 

 to one of them. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Blown. 



85. -RICHARDSONIA, Kunth. 



(After Richard Richardson.) 



(Riohardia and Rioardia, Houst.) 



Calyx-tube obovoid ; limb deeply 4 to 8-lobed, about as long as the ovary, at 



length deciduous. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat glabrous ; limb spreading, 3 to 



S-lobed; lobes ovate, setulose at the back near the apex, valvate in bud. 



Stamens 8 to 5, shortly exserted, inserted on the throat of the corolla ; filaaients 



slender ; anthers oblong, glabrous, dorsifixed. Disk inconspicuous. 'Ovary 3 to 4- 



celled ; style filiform, shortly S-l-ckft ; .stigmas 3, exserted, subcapiuite, bifid or 



