Stylidium..] LXVI. STYLIDIBJl. 887 



Flowers sessile along the scape or its branches. Capsule shortly 



linear 14. S. uUginosum. 



Stem shorly developed below the terminal tuft of leaves and peduncles. 

 Leaves linear-subulate. Peduncles 1-flowered 15. S. pedunculatum. 



Sekies VI. Thyrsiformes. — PecomidJs wJ«A a tufted or proliferous-branched stock or 

 stem, with radical or terminal tufts of leaves. Floivers in an obloug or elongated thyrsbid panicle 

 or raceme. 



Stock or stem proliferous-branched. Leaves narrow-linear. In- 

 florescence narrow-racemose. Branches of the stem slender. 

 Leaf-tufts woolly at the base 16. S. eglandulosum. 



1. S. graminifolium (Grass-leaved), Swartz.; DC. Prod. vii. 333 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iv. 10. Glabrous or nearly so, except the glandular-pubescent in- 

 florescence. Stock tufted or shortly proliferous, rarely lengthening to 4 or 5in. 

 Leaves linear, rather rigid, acute or obtuse, nearly flat, varying much in breadth, 

 the margins entire or with minute, cartilaginous, dilated and more or less scarious 

 at the base, sometimes not exceeding 2in., in luxuriant specimens 6 to 9in. 

 long. Scapes from |- to l^ft., the upper J to J occupied by a narrow, simple 

 raceme or interrupted spike. Bracts small. Flowers nearly sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate. Calyx 3 or 4 lines long, the lobes broad and obtuse, united nearly 

 to the top into two lips. Corolla-lobes nearly equal, the labellum rather long, 

 obtuse, the appendages variable. Capsule ovoid-oblong, J to nearly ^in. long. — 

 R. Br. Prod. 568 ; Labill. PI. Nov. HoU. ii. 65 t. 215 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 

 235 ; Bot. Reg. t. 90; Mag. t. 1918 ; C'andollea serrulata, Labill. in Ann. Mus. 

 Par. vi. 454 t. 64 ; Stylidium serrulatum, Rich, in Pers. Syn. ii. 210 ; Ventenatia 

 major, Sm. Exot. Bot. ii. 13. t. 66 ; S. canaliciilatum, Poir. Diet. Suppl. v. 412. 



Hab.: Very abundant in southern localities. 



Y&r. albrim. Flowers pure white. Hah.: Cleveland, W. R. Kefford. 



2. S. lineare (leaves linear), Swartz; DC. Prod. vii. 333; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 11. Glabrous, except the inflorescence, like S. graminifolium, and resembles 

 that species in its linear leaves, dilated towards the. base, racemose inflorescence 

 and undivided calyx-lips, but it is a smaller species, the leaves very narrow, 

 acute, usually incurved, not exceeding 2in. and often much shorter. Scapes 

 slender, the raceme 2 to 4in. long, and and much looser than in S. graminifolium. 

 Flowers smaller, on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines, the calyx-tube linear, and the ripe 

 capsule much narrower than in that species. — E. Bri Prod. 568 ; Ventenatia 

 minor, Sm. Exot. Bot. ii. 15. t. 67; S. planifolium, Poir. Diet. Suppl. v. 412. 



Hab.: Fraser's Island, W. Hill. 



3. S. FlOOdii (after J. Flood), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 149 ; Benth. hi. Austr. iv. 13. 

 A slender annual sometimes shortly proliferous at the base. Leaves all radical 

 or in a second tuft at the end of the short stem, very narrow-linear, almost 

 filiform, obtuse or acute, -J to lin. long, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs. 

 Scapes or peduncles usually several, leafless, slender, 3 to 6in. high, usually 

 sprinkled with a few hairs at the base, the inflorescence glandular-pubescent. 

 Flowers very small, in loose, more or less corymbose panicles, all pedicellate. 

 Calyx a little more than 1 line long, the lobes short and obtuse, free or the 2 

 lower ones united. Corolla pink, the tube longer than the calyx-lobes, the 

 lobes unequal, the throat with or without small appendages, the labellum without 

 any. Capsule ovoid, 1 to 1^ line long. 



, Hab.: Gilbert and Norman Elvers, Thos. Gulliver ; sourijes of Cape Biver, Bowman; near 

 Croydon, iJ, C. Burton ; Musgrave, Cape York Peninsula, T. Barclay -Miilar. 



4. S. eriorhizum (woolly at the base). Pi,. Br. Prod. 569 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 15. Stock tufted, the base of the leaves when old enveloped in a short, dense 

 wool. Leaves all radical, from obovate to narrow-spathulate, from 1 to 2 or 



