ctis, ante
expansionem ungue nervoso tunc brevissimo, post anthesin laminam
scariosam enervem fere aequante. Stamina 5 antherifera; filamenta basi in
cyathulum edentulum connata. Antherae biloculares, loculis utrinque
distinctis medio solum conjunctis. Ovarium monospermum, glabrum. Stylus
filiformis, glaber. Stigma capitatum, parvum. Utriculus evalvis,
ruptilis.

OBS. I was at first inclined to consider this plant as a genus distinct
from Ptilotus, more, however, from the remarkable difference in habit
than from any important distinction in the flower, for its character
would have chiefly consisted in the great size of its lateral bracheae,
and in the form of its antherae.

In a small collection formed during the voyage of Captains Wickham and
Stokes, there is a plant very nearly related to, and perhaps not
specifically distinct from Ptilotus latifolius, but having narrower
leaves. It was found on one of the islands of Dampier's Archipelago.

26. NEURACHNE (paradoxa) glaberrima, culmo dichotomo, foliis rameis
abbreviatis, fasciculis paucifloris, glumis perianthiisque imberbibus
valvula exteriore cujusve floris septemnervia.

LOC. Nulla indicatio loci v. stationis, in Herbario. D. Sturt.

DESC. Gramen junceum, facie potius Cyperaceae cujusdam. Folia radicalia
in specimine unico viso defuere; ramos subtendentia abbreviata, vagina
aperta ipsum folium superante; floralia subspathiformia sed foliacea nec
membranacea. Fasciculi pauciflori: spiculae cum pedunculo brevissimo
articulatae et solubiles, et subtensae bractea nervosa carinata ejusdem
circiter longitudinis. Gluma bivalvis biflora, nervosa, acuta, mutica;
valvulae subaequales septemnerviae; exterioris nervis tribus axin
occupantibus sed distinctis reliquis per paria a marginibus et axilibus
subaequidistantibus; interioris nervis aequidistantibus, externis margine
approximatis. Perianthium inferius (exterius), bivalvis, neuter; valvula
exterior septemnervis, exteriori glumae similis textura forma et
longitudine; valvula interior (superior) angustior pauloque brevior,
dinervis, nervis alatis marginibus veris latis induplicatis. Perianthium
superius hermaphroditum, paulo brevius, pergamineo-membranaceum, nervis
dilute viridibus; valvula exterior quinquenervis, acuta, concava;
interior ejusdem fere longitudinis, dinervis. Stamina 3, filamentis
linearibus. Ovarium oblongum, imberbe. Styli duo. Stigmata plumosa,
pallida?

OBS. Neurachne paradoxa, founded on a single