888 LXVI. STYLIDIE^. [StyUdium. 



rarely near 3in. long, rounded at the end, but with a fine, sometimes hair-like 

 point, edged with a short, woolly pubescence, otherwise glabrous or sprinkled 

 with a few short glandular hairs. Scapes glandular-pubescent, 4 to 8in. high, 

 the greater part occupied by a loose but narrow panicle. Calyx-lobes cohering at 

 the base into 2 lips. Corolla small, pink or nearly white ; the labellum 

 convex with very short appendages, the throat without any. Capsule narrow- 

 ovoid.— DC. Prod. vii. 334 ; F. v. M. Fragm. i. 147. 



Hab.: Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Suttor Eiver, F. v. Mueller; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; 

 Broadsound, Connor and Isaac Rivers, Bowman ; Dogwood Creek, Leichhardt ; Eockhampton, 

 P. O'Shanesy ; Aramac, C. W. de Burgh-Birch. 



5. S. debile (weak), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 149 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 15. 

 Glabrous or with a very slight glandular pubescence on the inflorescence, and 

 apparently annual or perhaps with a very slender rootstock. Stems slender, 

 often 4 or Sin. long, bearing a few leaves between the terminal tuft or rosette. 

 Leaves obovate oblanceolate or spathulate, mucronate-acute, f to lin. long, 

 including the petiole, usually thin. Scape filiform, from a few in. to ll^ft. long, the 

 greater part occupied by a slender raceme, quite simple, or the lower peduncles 

 rarely 2-flowered, the pedicels all short, with 1 or 2 bracts. Calyx-lobes short 

 and very obtuse, the 2 lower ones often united. CproUa-lobes unequal, 

 undivided, without appendages to the throat but with small ones to the labellum. 

 Capsule narrow-oblong, about 4 lines long. 



Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Eraser's Island, 

 Hon. Miss Lovell ; HrxnAabeig, J, Keys ; Stanthorpe, Dauidson. 



6. S> floribundum (free-flowering), R. Br. Prod. 569 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 15. Apparently annual. Leaves radical, rosulate, petiolate, oblong ob- 

 lanceolate or spathulate, acute or obtuse, f to l^in. long, thin and glabrous. 

 Scape filiform, ^ to 1ft. long, clothed with long spreading glandless hairs, nearly 

 simple or paniculately branched ; leafless except the minute hairs. Flowers 

 small, on slender pedicels. Calyx scarcely 2 lines long, the lobes free, narrow 

 and very small. Corolla scarcely twice as long as the calyx-lobes ; the labellum 

 with 2 small appendages, but none to the throat. Capsule oblong-clavate, 

 2 lines long.— DC. Prod. vii. 334 ; F. v. M. Fragm. i. 148. 



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



1. S< leptorhizum (slender-rooted), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 148 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 16. Apparently annual, but the slender stem sometimes 1 to Bin. long, 

 bearing a few leaves below the terminal tuft or rosette, quite glabrous as well as 

 the leaves, or sprinkled with a few short glandular hairs. Leaves rosulate, from 

 oblanceolate to obovate or spathulate, obtuse or mucronate-acute, thin and 

 membranous, often almost glaucous, f to 1 or nearly 2in. long, including the 

 petiole. Scape slender, leafless, except the minute bracts, from 2 or 3in. to l^ft. 

 long, glabrous or glandular-hairy. Flowers small, in a slender, very loosely- 

 branched panicle or raceme along its branches, with or without one in the fork, 

 all on rather long slender pedicels without bracteoles. Calyx-lobes free, narrow 

 and small. Corolla-lobes unequal (the two uppermost more united ?), the 

 labellum with two appendages, but none to the throat, or, according to F. v. 

 Mueller, the appendages to the throat and not to the labellum. Capsule oblong- 

 clavate, 2 lines long. — S. semipartitum, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 147. 



Hab.; Charter's Towers, C. F. Plant. 



8. S. laricifolium (Larch-leaved), Rich, in Pers. Syn. ii. 210; Benth. 

 FL Austr. iv. 21. A leafy shrub of about 2ft., without the inflorescence, 

 quite glabrous or the inflorescence sparingly glandular-pubescent, and sometimes 

 a few hairs sprinkled on the foliage. Leaves scattered but rather crowded along 

 the branches, not collected in terminal tufts, narrow-linear, mucronate, usually 



