small and distant. Perianth more incurved than in other species, not exceeding 2 lines, Stigma anteriorly produced on each side into a broad semicircular auricle or short broad lobe. Nut ovoid, about 2 lines long.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 528, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 315.
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Baxter, A. Cunningham, Preiss, n. 781, Drummond, Oldfield, F. Mueller.
Var. gracillima. Leaf segments long and narrow. Flowers very small and more curved in slender spikes—S. gracillima, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 32; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 315.—Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 588, and a still more slender elongated form, Murchison river, Oldfield.
7. S. decorticans, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 32. Stems short or decumbent, hirsute as well as the petioles with spreading hairs as in S. dilatata, or rarely nearly glabrous. Leaves also as in that species cuneate, undulate, once or twice 3-lobed at the end, 3 to 4 in. long including the petioles. Flowering branches long and slender, perianths scarcely 2 lines long and stigma with short lateral rounded lobes as in S. petiolaris, without the horns of S. dilatata.—Meissn. in DC. Prod, xiv. 314, partly.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll.
8. S. pinnata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 32. Leafy stems in our specimens exceedingly short or scarcely any, the whole plant quite glabrous and somewhat glaucous or the spike slightly pubescent. Leaves radical, on long petioles, divided at the end into 3 digitate segments, or rarefy pinnate with 5 segments, the lowest pair distant, the segments all contracted at the base, quite distinct, lanceolate, acute, 11⁄2 to 3 in, long, entire or divided into 3 more or less decurrent or confluent segments, the first leaves sometimes undivided. Flowering stems leafless, slender, often above 1 ft. long, with a few long branches. Flowers not numerous, towards the end of the branches, a few of the lower ones distant. Bracts 1 to 2 lines long, broad, acute. Perianth nearly 3 lines long, the claws very oblique and at least as long as the laminæ, and the upper lamina not so broad as in the other species. Stigma broad, concave, without lobes or appendages.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 530, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 316.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 783 (Meissner). I have only seen Drummond's specimens.
6. CONOSPERMUM, Sm.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube straight, entire; limb of 4 nearly equal spreading lobes or 2-lipped, the upper lip very broad, concave, shortly acuminate or with recurved margins, the lower with 3 narrow lobes. Stamens inserted in the gibbous apex of the tube or concave base of the limb; filaments short, thick; anther of the uppermost stamen with 2 perfect cells, of the lateral stamens with 1 perfect and 1 abortive cells, of the lowest stamen with 2 abortive cells, the
