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.—Perianth-tube very obliquely dilated and recurved above the middle. Lower anther (on the back of the style) linear and sterile. Style-end ovate or elliptical, compressed, the stigmatic slit descending along the centre of the upper face. Leaves flat, entire. Flowers axillary.

1. A. barbigera, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 36. Stems erect, nearly simple and 1 to 2 ft. high, or with several erect virgate branches and attaining 3 or 4 ft., tomentose-pubescent and hirsute with long fine hairs, the adult foliage often glabrous. Leaves from elliptical-oblong and under 1 in. to lanceolate and 2 in. or linear-lanceolate and nearly 3 in. long, obtuse or with a callous point, contracted into a very short petiole, prominently veined, the primary veins few and almost longitudinal. Peduncles solitary in the axils, 1 to 3 lines long. Bracts lanceolate, acute, villous, the inner ones often $1/2$ in. long Perianth villous with fine hairs, rather above 1 in. long, the tube dilated and recurved above the middle, the short laminæ long-cohering, the 3 upper segments ultimately separating to about $3/4$ of the perianth, each with a perfect anther in the lamina, the lower segment with a sterile anther and separating lower down. Style glabrous or sparingly bearded with fine hairs, the dilated end elliptical, compressed but thick, the stigmatic slit descending to about half way down the inner face and bordered by slightly raised margins.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 510 and in DC. Prod. xiv. 311.