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2. D. Adelae (after Adelre de L’Arbre), F. r. M. Fraym. iv. 154, t. 33. A 
soft hairy plant. Roots fibrous, the fibrils woolly-villous ; stems short or almost 
wanting. Stipules only a few lines long, brownish, semilanceolate, scarious. 
Leaves elongate-lanceolate, tapering to very short petioles, 3 to 7in. long, A to 
lin. broad, margins copiously glandular-pilose, underside nearly glabrous, lateral 
nerves widely spreading and much branched. Peduncles with raceme from a 
few to 9in. long, nearly the whole inflorescence very softly hairy with crispate 
hoary fulvous hairs. Bracteoles linear-setaceous, 1 to 2 lines long, sometimes 
forked. Pedicels slender, 4 to 5 lines long. Calyx glabrous, deeply 5-partite ; 
segments lanceolate, about 1A line long. Petals acute-lanceolate, about 2 lines 
long. Stamens 5, hypogynous ; filaments very short, subcuneate. Anthers 
yellow ; cells minute, opening longitudinally, broad and curved-ellipsoid. Styles 
3, very shortly bifid, glabrous, stigmas minute, divergently bilobed. Capsule 
small, membranous, scarcely 1 line high, prominently 3-valved. Seeds not very 
numerous at maturity, subglobose, umbonate, black, A line diameter, foveolate- 
clathrate. — F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) 
3. D. pygmaea (dwarfish), DC. Prod. i. 317 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 457. A 
minute species, said to be annual, but evidently forming a hibernating bud in the 
centre of the rosette, like the other species of the section. Leaves rosulate, orbi- 
cular, A to nearly 1 line diameter, on slender petioles, forming tufts of about Ain. 
diameter. Stipules scarious, deeply lobed. Scapes glabrous, filiform, A to nearly 
lin. long, bearing a single minute terminal flower. Sepals 4, about ± line long 
in flower, nearly 1 line in fruit. Petals rather larger. Styles 4, slightly club- 
shaped and stigmatic at the end. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds few, rather large in 
proportion, ovoid. — Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 289 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. 
i. 29 ; F. v. M. PL Viet. i. 56. 
Hab.: Fraser’s Island, Hon. Miss Lovell. 
4. D. Lovellae (after Hon. Miss S. Lovell), Bail. Bot. Bull. vii. A small deep- 
red plant. Leaves rosulate, spathulate, 3 lines long, and about lj line broad at 
the end, from whence it narrows to a broad flat petiole, the lamina bearing near 
the margin a deep- red fringe w T hich does not extend to the petiole, which is 
glabrous. Stipules scarious, deeply cut into narrow lobes. Scapes 1 to lAin. 
high, reddish, slightly glandular, with a few longer white hairs, flattened and 
with a longitudinal centre groove, bearing at the end 3 flowers on short pedicels. 
Sepals tinted with red, about f line long. Petals white, about line long ; the 
stamens only about half that length. Anthers nearly globular. Styles 4, slightly 
club-shaped and stigmatic at the end as in D. pygnuea. Capsule 4-valved, but 
only an old one seen. 
Hab.: Fraser’s Island, Hon. Miss S. Lovell. 
5. D. Burmanni (after N. L. Burmann), Yald ; DC. Prod. i. 318 ; Bentlu FI. 
Austr. ii. 459. Leaves all radical, rosulate, obovate-spathulate, about 3 or 4 lines 
diameter, narrowed into a petiole not so long. Stipules scarious, cut into narrow 
lobes, not so long as the petiole. Scapes solitary or 2 or 3 from the same tuft, 
slender, attaining 5 or 6in. and rarely under 3in. long, the upper portion occupied 
by a slender 1 -sided raceme of several flowers. Pedicels short. Sepals glabrous, 
1A to 2 lines long. Anthers small. Styles 5, undivided, filiform, not branched 
but slightly dilated and fringed towards the end. — Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 
3, ix. 190 ; Wight, Ic. t. 944. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller; Lizard Island; Endeavour River, Banks and 
Solander ; Rockhampton, P. O’Slianesy ; common north and south. 
The species is widely spread over E. India and the Archipelago, extending to S. China 
Without examining the styles, it is very difficult to distinguish it from D. spathulata. — Benth. 
