HEMICAREX AND ITS ALLIES. 389 
Species a genere amovenda. 
Sehenoxiphium ? Lehmanni, Steud. Syn. Cyper. p. 245, est 
Carex Esenbeckii, Boeck. 
Uncinia, Pers. Syn. ii. p. 534; Brown, Prodr. p. 241; Boott 
in Hook. f. Fi. New Zeal. i. p. 285; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vii. p. 433; Beck. in Linnea, xli. p. 339.— Caricis sp. (C. un- 
cinata, Linn. f. Suppl. 413), auctor. 
Spice specie simplices, basi feemines, apice mascule. Bracteæ 
undique imbricate, inferiores rarius paullo distantes, specie 1- 
flore ; feminea singula utriculum includens, mascula singula 
(gluma auctorum) 3 (casu 2-1) stamina includens. Bracteæ 
ovate aut oblonge, concave, obtuse aut inferiores acute vel 
aristate, virides aut ferrugines, dorso 1-nervie rarius 1-3-nervise 
aut plicate, haud raro rigidiuscule, vix carinate. E basi ovarii 
nascitur (lateraliter) seta rigida, superne teres, ex ore utriculi 
longe exserta, levis (in U. pAleoide, var. trichocarpa minute 
scabrida), apice valide uncata, aut in U. Kingii tenuiter uncata, 
vel imo (in sectione Pseudocarice) obsolete aut plane non uncata. 
Filamenta linearia aut laxa dilatata ; anthere lineares aut 
anguste oblonge ; connectivum supra antheram vix prolongatum, 
Styli 3-fidi, raro (casu ?) 2-meri. Nux trigona aut subcompressa, 
stylobasi sepissime angusta. 
Species sat note sepius stolonifere videntur. Glabre nisi in- 
terdum utriculi. Culmi erecti, teretes, striati, aut paullo trigoni, 
parum scabridi, foliati aut basin versus plurifoliati; vaginee in- 
feriores testacez aut fusce, ime subaphylle. Folia angustissime 
linearia, plana, rarius convoluta, in marginibus sepius scabrida, 
in lamina subtus haud raro sursum scabra. 
Sect. 1. SrENANDRA. Filamenta filiformia, non (aut in U. macro- 
phylia leviter) dilatata.—Species australes aut antarctice. 
Utriculus sepius glaber, in U. leptostachya, Sinclairii, Lechle- 
riana parce pilosa. Nux oblonga, trigona, compressa, levis, 
minute reticulata, apice tuberculo parvo (i.e. rostro sub- 
cylindrico minuto) superata. 
$ 1. Spice lineares aut anguste oblongs ; bractex laxiuscule im- 
bricate ; rhachis pars inferior ante bracteas delapsas sæpius 
exposita. 
1. U. LEPTOSTACHYA (Raoul, Choix Pl. Now. Zél. p. 12, tab. 5): 
