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tage, as the more groups are made the more tangibly they may 

 be denned. 



Sect. A. Aristati. 



Aristati, Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 20 ; BoecJc. in Linncsa, xxxv. 

 p. 97. 



Annuae, humiles, glabra, csaspitosaa, foliatas. Umbella specie 

 simplex aut capitata, in S. amalili interdum composita ; spiculaa 

 numerosao fasciculatse aut breviter densius spicatae, compresses; 

 rhachillae alae angustae, insolubiles. Glunue carinatae, aristatae 

 aut mucronatae, raro muticaa. Stamina saepius 1-2 ; anthera3 parvae, 

 oblongso, muticae, ut styli rami vix aut brevissime e gluma exsertae. 

 Nux castanea, brunnea aut lutea, neque (ut saepe in sect. Raspan) 

 marmoraceo-albida. 



This is a natural small group, nor is there much difficulty or 

 difference of opinion what species should be placed in it. But 

 the name is unfortunate : not only do equally aristate glumes 

 occur in most groups of Eucyperus, but in several of the Aristati 

 the glume is merely minutely mucronate, and in C. amabilis often 

 absolutely muticous. — Of Boeckeler's species (which I have not 

 been able to take up) in this section, Mr. Bentham has removed 

 elsewhere C.flaccidus, R. Br., C. trinervis, E. Br. ; and I have a 

 note by me that C. seslerioides ought to stand next C. leuco- 

 cephalus, Eetz., below. 



* Spicules digitatcB. 



48. C. amabilis {Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 318); umbella capitata, 

 simplice, composita aut decomposita; spiculis digitatis, aureo- 

 brunneis; glumis truncatis, subemarginatis, mucrone brevi vel 

 obsoleto ; nuce anguste obovoidea obtusa, quam | pars glumae 

 paullo breviore. — Kunih, Enum. ii. p. 108. 



C. microstachyus, Vahl, Enum. ii. p. 318; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 108. 

 C. aureus, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 205 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. p. 21 ; 



Boeck. in Linneea, xxxv. p. 494. 

 C. aurantiacus, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 205 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 

 p. 30; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 549; Nees in Mart. Brastl, Cyp. 

 p. 25. 

 C. oligostachyus, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. p. 204; Kunth, Enum. 



ii. p. 20. 

 C. brachyphyllus, mild.; Link,Jahrb. iii. p. 82. 

 C. quitensis, Spreng. Syst. i. p. 224. 

 C lepidus, Hochst. I ; Steud. Cyp. p. 14- 



