with long hairs but soon glabrous. Style remaining curved but not hooked, with a very small stigmatic end.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 463; B. barbigera Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 264, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 463.
W. Australia. King George's Sound or to the eastward, Baxter, Drummond 3rd coll. n. 290.
18. B. petiolaris, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 109. Stems short, prostrate, thick and tomentose. Leaves erect, on long petioles, above 1 ft. long, truncate, sinuate with short callous teeth, tapering at the base, about 1 in. broad towards the top, flat or undulate, thick, the veins concealed on the under surface by a white tomentum. Spike erect as in B. repens, cylindrical, 5 in. long in the specimen before me. Perianth about ¾ in. long, the tube loosely pubescent, the limb nearly 2 lines long, obtuse, bearing longer more deciduous hairs. Style remaining curved, with a very small stigmatic end.
W. Australia. Sand plains, Cape Le Grand to Cape Arid, Maxwell (a single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller). Possibly a variety of B. repens, as suggested by F. Mueller, Fragm. vii. 58.
19. B. repens, Labill. Voy. i. 411, t. 23. Stems short, prostrate, thick, densely tomentose or woolly. Leaves erect, on long petioles, often a foot long, deeply and irregularly pinnatifid, the lobes varying from lanceolate or falcate entire and 1 to 1½ in. long to oblong-lanceolate or somewhat cuneate entire lobed or pinnatifid and 1 to 4 in. long, or to short broad and almost triangular, all thick and rigid, flat or undulate, the transverse veins prominent underneath and sometimes also on the upper surface. Spikes turned up at the end of the stems, not closely surrounded by leaves, oblong or cylindrical, 3 to 4 in. long. Perianths about 1 in. long, the tube pubescent with short crisped hairs, the limb recurved, nearly 2 lines long, obtuse, villous with much longer crisped hairs sometimes deciduous. Style remaining curved but not hooked, with a very small stigmatic end.—R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 211, Prod. 396; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 586, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 462; B. polypodifolia Knight, Prot. 113; B. blechnifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 108; B. pinnatisecta, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 58 (name only).
W. Australia. King George's Sound or adjoining districts, Labillardière, Baxter, Drummond, 3rd coll. n. 291, Oldfield; sandy plains from Stirling Range to Young river, Maxwell.
20. B. prostrata, R. Br. Prot. Nov. 36. Stems prostrate, tomentose. Leaves erect, on long petioles, often above 1 ft. long and 1 to 1½ in. broad, divided about half way to the midrib into broad ovate or triangular mostly obtuse lobes, thick flat and rigid, the transverse veins scarcely prominent even on the under surface. Spikes turned up at the ends of the stems as in B. repens, not closely surrounded by leaves, oblong or cylindrical, rarely above 3 in. long. Perianth scarcely above ¾ in. long, the tube loosely hirsute, the limb recurved, narrow, obtuse, at first densely bearded with long crisped and intricate ferruginous
