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6. D. spathulata (leaves spoon-shaped), Labill. PI. Nov. Roll. i. 79, t. 106, 
f. 1 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 459. A stemless species, not very easy to distinguish 
from the coarser specimens of D. Burmanni without examining the styles. Leaves 
rosulate, obovate or spathulate, not usually so broad as in D. Burmanni, and often 
^in. long, sometimes oblong-spathulate and narrowed into a rather long petiole. 
Stipules scarious, cut into narrow lobes. Scapes usually 3 to 6in. high, including 
the simple or rarely forked 1-sided raceme. Pedicels short, glabrous as well as 
the calyx or minutely glandular-pubescent. Sepals about line long, often 
united at the base. Petals pink, red or white, as long as or rather exceeding the 
calyx. Anthers oblong. Styles 8 or rarely 4, but divided to tbe base into 2 
branches either entire and filiform or slightly dilated, emarginate or shortly forked 
at the end. Seeds numerous, small. — DC. Prod. i. 318 ; Planch, in Ann. Sc. 
Nat. ser. 3, ix. 193 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 29 ; Dot. Mag. t. 5240 ; F. v. M. PI. 
Viet. i. 66. 
Hab.: From the southern border to Rockingham Bay. 
The species is also in New Zealand. Some specimens of Cuming’s, from the Philippine Islands, 
are also referred to it by Planchon, and do not in fact appear at all different. They are, however, 
probably the same as the S. Chinese D. Loureiri, Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. 167, t. 31; Benth. 
FI. Hongk. 130, which must in that ease be united with D. spathulata. Among the Australian 
specimens there appear to be two slightly different forms, one with larger deeper-coloured 
flowers, and the style-branches usually dilated and emarginate at the end, the other more slender, 
with paler and smaller flowers, the style-branches divided some way down into two slender 
forks.- — Benth. 
7. D. petiolaris (having prominent petioles), Pt. By. in DC. Prod. i. 318 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 460. Stock short, densely tufted, with long silky or rusty 
hairs covering the persistent bases of the old leaves and stipules. Leaves rosulate, 
orbicular or broadly obovate, rarely above 2 lines diameter, on a rather broad 
petiole of \ to lin. in the ordinary form, the under side of the lamina and the 
petiole clothed with long silky hairs. Stipules scarious but not prominent. 
Scapes in the largest specimens 1ft. high but usually about half that, including 
the rather loose, often long, 1 -sided raceme, the calyx, pedicels and rhachis more 
or less villous with soft silky or velvety hairs. Pedicels rather shorter than the 
calyx, often reflexed. Sepals above 1 line long in flower, 2 lines in fruit. Petals 
broad, purple, rather large. Anthers small. Styles 3, repeatedly dichotomous, 
the last branches short and stigmatic. — D. fulra, Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, 
ix. 289. 
(Jab.: Islands of tbe Gulf of Carpentaria, li. Brown; Russell, Norman and Gilbert Rivers ; 
Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, R. Brown. 
Banks’ specimens are remarkable for their petiole 1 to 2in. long and less dilated, with a lamina 
of 1 to 2 lines diameter, which induced Planchon to consider them as belonging to a distinct 
species; but R. Brown’s carefully-selected series of specimens show every gradation from the 
longest to the shortest petioles. — Benth. 
Planchon describes the styles of this species as twice-bifid ; I find them 3 or 4 times bifid. It 
is, however, exceedingly difficult to trace their ramifications from dried specimens. In the bud 
they form a dense mass which requires great care in unfolding, and after flowering they are so 
mixed in the withered petals that it is almost impossible to extract them whole. The leaves are, 
as observed by Planchon (l.c. 289, 290) not peltate, and the association of the species with the 
very dissimilar D. Banksii into one section (Lasiocephalnm), proposed by Planchon (l.c. 94), and 
founded partly on this character, can scarcely be admitted.— Benth. 
8. D. binata (leaflets usually in twos), Lahill. PI. Nov. Hull. i. 78, t. 105 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 461. Stock small, appearing sometimes to emit creeping 
stolons. Leaves radical, on long petioles, the lamina divided to the base into 2 
long linear lobes, sometimes again once or twice forked, and often 2 or 3in. long, 
elegantly fringed by the glandular cilia of the genus, glabrous underneath as well 
as the petioles. Stipules short, broad, brown and scarious, slightly jagged. 
Scapes exceeding the leaves, often 1 to l|ft. high, bearing a loose cyme of large 
white flowers, consisting usually of 2 or 8 racemose branches, rarely reduced to a 
short simple raceme. Sepals about ^in. long. Petals twice as long. Styles 
