is Spiculæa ciliata,264 whose rusty flowers when spread open may be compared to long-legged spiders, the lip with a long solid lamina looking like their body, while an appendage at its apex, which is apparently moveable, will not be unlike the head of such a creature.
Miscellaneous Endogens.
Of Endogenous plants not included in the two preceding natural orders the number is either inconsiderable, or the supplies sent home have been very deficient; and, with such exceptions as are about to be named, they are of little interest. A Xanthorhæa is spoken of by Frazer, but I have seen no specimens of it. The form most characteristic of the Colony is Laxmannia,265 a genus of small heath-leaved shrubs, with capitate white membranous flowers, usually collected in heads upon the end of leafless scapes; of one of these curious, and rather pretty plants, there is a figure at Plate VII. A; some others266 also occur, but they are of no beauty. Two
utrinque auriculata. Anthera terminalis, persistens, loculis approximatis. Rostellum ovatum, acuminatum, convexum.
Drakæa elastica. (Fig. 3.) Radices lanatæ, apice bulbosæ. Folium radicale coriaceum, subrotundum, cordatum. Scapus erectus pedalis, glaber, squamulâ infra medium solitaria, uniflorus. Labellum basi tuberculatum, crinitum, angustatum, utrinque dente retrorso auctum.
(264) Spiculæa (Arethuseæ). Sepala et petala linearia, conformia, patentia. Labelli unguis elongatus, teres, inarticulatus; lamina linearis, peltata, apice appendice mobili aucta. Columna elongata, arcuata, infra medium semiteres, marginata; superiùs alata: alis marginantibus, basi liberis falcatis, apice circa antheram in cucullum breve quadrilobum confluentibus: lobis lateralibus longioribus. Anthera terminalis, persistens, loculis approximatis. Stigma meniscoideum.
Spiculæa ciliata. (Fig. 4.) Herba spithamæa, glabra, verosimiliter fusca. Folium radicale coriaceum, cordatum, acuminatum. Scapus medio uni-squamatus. Racemus multiflorus, 2-3 poll. longus. Sepala filiformia, spathulata; petala etiam angustiora, haud apice dilatata, 5 lin. longa. Labelli lamina carnosa, supra medium affixa, basi angustata ciliata retusa; appendice apicis ovali membranacea.
(265) Laxmannia grandiflora (Tab. VILA); foliis erectis apice spinosis scapo multò brevioribus, capitulis multifloris basi obtusis.
(266) Laxmannia squarrosa; foliis squarroso-recurvis apice setiferis scapo multò brevioribus, capitulis paucifloris basi acutis.
(267) Laxmannia sessilis; foliis squarroso-recurvis apice piliferis, capitulis sessilibus foliis brevioribus.
(268) Laxmannia ramosa; caule nitido ramoso apicibus tantum folioso, foliis erectis pungentibus scaporum longitudine, capitulis paucifloris sphæricis basi intrusis.
