Stigma produced into a short broad notched or 2-lobed appendage. Leaf-lobes short, divaricate, pungent-pointed. Flowers small. |
5. S. acutiloba. |
Stigma with 2 broad lateral lobes, sometimes shortly confluent. Flowers small. Leaf-lobes long. | |
Glabrous or nearly so. |
6. S. petiolaris. |
Base of the petiole hirsute and spike pubescent as in S. dilatata. |
7. S. decorticans. |
Stigma broad without lobes or appendages. Leaf-segments long, distinct, almost petiolulate |
8. S. pinnata. |
1. S. polymorpha, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 156, Prod. 370. Stems leafy, 1 to 2 ft. high, rigid, usually more or less silky especially about the base of the petioles, the adult foliage glabrous. Lower leaves on long petioles, entire or cuneately 3-lobed as in several of the following species, but the upper ones numerous, shortly petiolate, once or twice deeply divided into 2- or 3-lobed or toothed segments, the whole leaf spreading to 2 or 3 in. diameter, the lobes mostly pungent-pointed, broad or narrow, the small reticulations less prominent than in most species. Spikes simple, pubescent, rarely exceeding the leaves. Perianth 21⁄2 to 3 lines long. Stigma produced into an oblong or linear entire or emarginate incurved appendage as in S. Preissii. Nut obovoid-oblong, shortly stipitate.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 529, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 315; S. brachystachya, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 32; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 530, and in DC. l.c. 316.
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown and many others, and from thence to Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 590, Preiss, n. 774, 775, and others, and to Murchison river, Oldfield; eastward to Cape Arid, Maxwell.
2. S. dilatata, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 156, Prod. 370, and App. Flind. Voy. ii. 606, t. 7. Stems very short or decumbent and lengthening out to 1 or even 11⁄2 ft., more or less clothed as well as the petioles, at least when young, with long spreading hairs. Leaves all on long petioles, from cuneate-oblong and entire to broadly cuneate and once or twice 3-lobed or rarely irregularly pinnatifid, the lamina 2 to 4 in. long, usually 1- or 3-nerved when entire, the small reticulations conspicuous. Spikes simple or branched, sometimes only 2 or 3 in., sometimes above 1 ft. long including the peduncle, always more or less silky-villous. Flowers at first dense, but remote when the rhachis elongates. Bracts broad, 1 to 11⁄2 lines long. Perianth pubescent, 3 to 4 lines long. Ovary crowned by a tuft of thick transparent hairs. Stigma anteriorly produced into 2 rather long erect horn-like appendages. Nut small, oblong.–Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 527, ii. 251, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 314; Endl. Iconogr. t. 32; Conospermum reticulatum. Sm. in Rees' Cycl. ix.; Synaphca Drummondii, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 315.
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Menzies, Baxter, Fraser, Oldfield, Drummond, n. 21, 2nd coll. n. 303, 3rd coll. n. 259, Preiss, n. 773, 776.
3. S. favosa, R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 156, Prod. 369. Stems short or decumbent, the whole plant glabrous or with a short silky
