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Suffrutex cubitalis. Folia 3-5 lin. longa, inferne 1-2 lin. lata, 
vix petiolata. Flores rosei circiter 2 lin. longi. Capsula addito 
stipite 4 lin. longa. Semina nigrescentia lineam metientia. 
Species capsulis distinctius alatis et profundius emarginatis nec 
non notis supra traditis a C. linearifolio distinguenda. 
Comesperma silvestre. 
Lindley in Mitch, trop. Anstr. p. 342. (Sect. Eucomesperma.) 
Fruticosa, elata, ramosa, erecta, foliis glaucis ovato-v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis planis in petiolum brevissimum angustatis acutis v. 
cuspidulatis, racemis terminalibus corymbosis, pedicellis flores 
subaequantibus, bracteolis caducis parvis ovato-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis, media lateralibus dimidio longiore, sepalis exterioribus 
orbiculari-ovatis interioribus triplo brevioribus, stylo brevissime 
bilobo, capsula pedicellis triplo longiore, seminibus oblongo-ovatis, 
caruncula nulla. 
Prope montem Pluto. Sir Th. Mitchell. In locis elatis aridis 
secus flumen Suttor. 
C. latifolio proximum. 
COMPOSITiE. 
Br achy come graminea . 
Eerd. Mueller first gen. rep. p. 14. B. parvula J. Hook. fl. Tasm. I. p. 185. 
Paquerina graminea, Cass. diet. 37, p. 464 & 492. Steetz in Eehm. pi. 
Preiss I. 427. Schlecht. Linnsea xx. p. 589. Sond. & Eerd. Muell. in 
Linnsea xxv. p. 478. Beilis graminea Labill. plant. Nov. Holl. specim. ii., 
p. 54, t. 204. 
Perennis, glabra, rarius glanduloso-puberula, caulibus debilibus 
erectis v. adscendentibus raro stoloniferis, foliis linearibus v. 
oblongo-v. cuneato-linearibus raro lanceolatis saepius indivisis 
rarius tridentatis v. trilobis v. laciniatis v. angusto-pinnatilobis, 
pedunculis elongatis aphyllis ramos terminantibus gracilibus, invo- 
lucri squamis spathulato-v. cuneato-linearibus nunc quoque ovatis 
denticulatis v. integerrimis vix puberulis, receptaculo semiovato 
scrobiculato, acheniis compressis fuscescentibus obovato-cuneatis 
rarius late ovatis margine incrassatis apteris utraque facie tuber- 
culatis, pappo nullo. 
In locis humidis prtesertim ripariis, t nunc in pratis salinis, a 
sinu Moreton Bay usque ad flumen Murray et sinum Spencer’s 
Gulf, 'nec non in Tasmania. 
Radix fascicitlato-fibrosa v. reptans, uni-v. pluri-caulis. Caules 
simplices v. ramosi. Folia ut plurimum l-4 7/ longa, angustissima 
v. usque lata. Involucri squamae l-2 /7/ longae. Radius albus 
v. lilacinus. Achenia circiter l /// longa. 
B. angustifolia A. Cunn. in DC. prodr. t. 306 et B. pusilla Steetz 
1. c. huic e definitionibus auctorum valde propinquae videntur. 
