PL.LXXIY. 



Varycmthes.] CXXXI. AMAEYLLIDEiE. 



flowers each, subtended by coloured lanceolate bracts, the rhachis 1 to 2in. long 

 in the normal form, with an oblong or lanceolate coloured bract under each 

 flower. Pedicels short and thick. Ovary or adnate perianth-tube about l|in. 

 long ; segments of the limb about 4in. long, broadly oblong-linear, obtuse, thick, 

 concave and undulate, nearly erect quite at the base, then spreading or recurved. 

 Filaments about Sin. long, adnate to the perianth at the base ; anthers above 

 lin. long.— E. Br. Prod. 298 ; Bauer lllustr. PI. N. Holl. t. 12 to 14 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1685. 



Hab.: W. Hill mentions a white-floweved variety which he found on Mount Lindsay.— jBe?!t;i. 



Var. Palmeri. Leaves 5 to 6ft. long, 2 to 4iii. broad. Flower-stem 8 to 10ft. high, the upper 

 portion forming a thjrsus. Bracts linear-lanceolate, coloured like the flowers. The secondary 

 bracts about Jin. long, bearing 3 to 4 flowers; the bract subtending each flower short. 

 Perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, pale or white inside below the middle, about 2Jin. long, 

 spreading from near the base. Filaments rather thick at the base. Anthers about J-A. long, 

 capsule Jin. long, IJin. broad, oblong-rostrate. Seed with wing lin. long. — D. Palmeri, 

 W. Hill ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 452. 



Hab,: Cunningham's Gap, Mount Mistake, and many other localities on the Main Range. 



Var. Gailfoylei. Leaves 8 to 9ft. long, 7 to Sin. broad. Flower-stem 13 to 15ft. high, one 

 half being occupied by the thyrsus. ]3racts lanceolate about 1ft. long. Each secondary 

 rhachis bearing several flowers of an intense Vermillion ; bract subtending flower oblong, about 

 Sin. long. Perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 2iin. long. Filaments rather thick at the 

 base. Anther about Jin. long.— i). Guilfoylei, Bail. Bot. Bull. vii. 



flab.: Burdekin Eiver, W. R. Guilfoyle. 



