Laxmawiia.] CXXXV. LIL1ACEJ5. 1639' 



sessile, the segments about 2 lines or at length nearly 3 long, the outer ones rather 

 shorter than the inner. Ovary contracted into a short stipes. — F. v. M. Fragm. 

 vii. 88. 



Hab.: Dawson Eiver, F. v. Mueller; Rockhampton, O'Sliancsy; the Islands of Moreton. 

 Bay and many other localities ; it is a plant frequently met with on sandy spots inland as well 

 as on the coast. 



20. BORYA, Labill. 

 (After Col. Bory de St. Vincent.) 



Perianth withering but persistent, hypocrateriform, the tube slender, cylindrical,, 

 the limb of 6 spreading nearly equal linear lobes. Stamens 6, inserted at the 

 base of the lobes and as long as them or nearly so ; filaments filiform ; anthers ^ 

 short, erect, ovate-sagittate, the cells opening inwards in longitudinal slits. 

 Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-celled, with several (about 20) ovules in each cell,, 

 superposed in two rows ; style filiform, with a small capitate stigma. Capsule- 

 enclosed amongst the persistent bracts, 8-valved. Seeds few, with a black, 

 crustac'eous testa, without any strophiole. — Perennials with the stems either very 

 short and tufted or elongated and branchedj always densely covered with the 

 closely imbricated persistent bases of the leaves. Leaves narrow-linear subulate 

 or almost filiform, much crowded on the stock or on the upper part of the stems 

 when elongated. Flowers in globular or ovoid heads on long peduncles. Bracts 

 densely imbricated, a few of the outer ones empty, subulate, forming an erect or 

 spreading involucre, the inner ones broad, usually obtuse, brown or black, eachj 

 with a single flower sessile in its axil, the tube enclosed in a bracteole similar to- 

 the bract but broader, with inflected scarious margins. 

 The genus is limited to Australia. 



1. B. septentrionalis (northern), F. v. M. Fvagm. v. 41 ; Denth. 1<1. Austr.. 

 vii. 71. A perennial or low shrub, very variable in aspect according to age and 

 situation, sometimes forming short tufts with the leaves almost radical and scape- 

 like peduncles, but the stems often growing out to 6 or 18in. high, crooked or 

 nearly erect, simple or branched, the lower portion covered with the persistent 

 imbricate bases of the leaves and occasionally rooting. Leaves crowded in the 

 upper portion, erect spreading or recurved, from under liin. to above 2in. long, 

 always ending in rigid pungent points. Peduncles erect, simple, G to 12in. 

 long. Flower-heads from ovoid to depressed globular, 6 to 9 lines 

 diameter.' From 8 to 7 of the outer bracts empty, lanceolate-subulate or linear,, 

 very rigid and pointed, and seldom longer than the head ; inner flowering bracts 

 dark-brown, 4 to 5 lines long, all very obtuse or a few of the outer ones almost 

 acute or empty and passing into the involucral bracts. Bracteoles enclosing the- 

 flowers as long as the bracts. Perianth- tube slender, longer than the bracts ; the 

 ■lobes linear, about the length of the tube. 



Hab.: Fissures o£ rocks, Eockingham Bay, Dallachy; Walsh's Pyramid and other mountains.. 



21. SOWERB.^A, Sm. 



(iifter James Sowerby.) 



Perianth persistent without twisting, of 6 oblong or ovate segments, all free or- 

 the inner ones shortly connate at the base. Stamens 3 perfect, opposite the 

 inner segments at their base, with very short filaments, anthers erect divided tO' 

 below the middle into 2 linear lobes opening laterally in longitudinal slits, the 

 3 opposite the outer lobes reduced to short 'filaments without anthers or entirely 

 wanting. Ovary short, 3-celled, with 2 to 6 ovules in each cell. Style filiform, 

 with a terminal stigma. Capsule 3-celled, enclosed in the persistent perianth, 

 opening loculicidally in 3 valves. Seeds few, more or less angular, with a thick, 

 but scarcely crustaceous black testa minutely granulated. Embryo small, linear,. 



