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linearia v. sublanceolata, patentia v. recurva, basi complicata amplexicaulia v. breviter 
vaginantia. Pedunculi axillares, l-cephali, nune brevissimi v. vix ulli, nune capitulo 
paullo longiores, vagina basilari brevi s:pius in laminam foliaceam linearem producta. 
Capitulum globosum, bractearum perianthiorumque exteriorum segmentorum acuminibus 
quasi echinatum.  Bracteste omnes acute aeuminate, exteriores perpaues vacuse, v. 
interdum. omnes florem fovere videntur. Flores d et 9 in speciminibus pluribus 
lariter mixtos i imus, nec per paria oppositos ut a Martiuso descripti. 
Species 1, in paludibus, eampis inundatis, locis arenosis, ad margines aquorum per Americam 
"tropicam sla dispersa, ce dus sepe submersis radicantibus, ramis florentibus longis demersis 
in limo v, arena p d il Mart. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xvii. 16, t. 4. Kunth, 
Enuwin, Pl. iii. 494, Kern. in. Mar: Fl. Bras. iii. i. 301, £. 38. 
Ono COXCVIL. CENTROLEPIDEZ. 
Endl. Gen. Pl. 119. . Hieronymus, Beitrige zur Kentnisse der Centrolepidaceen, Halle, 1873, cum 
tabb. 4,'in Abhandl. Nat. Gesellsch. Halle xii. DksvauxracEz, Lindl. Veg, Kingd. 120. 
Flores hermaphroditi v. polygami, in spiculis v. capitulis parvis plures v. rarius solitarii, 
sessiles, glumis v. bracteis sub quoque flore 1-3 v. 0. Perianthiwm 0. | Stamen 1, v. 
ferissme de 25 filamenta filiformia.  Anthere oblongse v. lineares, versatiles, rima 
unica l aperte 1-loculares..— Ovarium 1, 1-loculare v. collateraliter 
2-3- loculare, v. loculis carpellisve 2-oo 1-2-seriatim superpositis. Styli tot quot loculi 
v. earpella, distincti v. plus minus connati, v. rarius in ovario l-loeulari 2-3, lineari- 
filiformes, indivisi, superne 1l-lateraliter stigmatosi. Ovwla in loculis solitaria, pendula, 
orthotropa. Fructus parvus, eed Tea paullo CUTE pericarpio membranaceo, 
loculis v. earpellis ext inl i Semina in loeulis carpellisve 
solitaria, pendula szpeque axi lateraliter adnata, testa tenui Appréssa. Albwmnen subfari- 
naceum. Embryo parvus, obovoideus v. ob ad is ab hilo remotus. 
Herbse parve, nune minimze, modo annuze caule brevissimo v. subnullo, modo perennes 
fere id Folia linearia v. filiformia, in speciebus annuis 
radicalia dense c:espitosa, in perennibus secus ramos breves imbrieato-subpatentia. ^ Seapi 
radicales v. pedunculi terminales, tenues, 1-cephali. 
Species vix 30, fere omnes Australians, cum una in Asia orientali australi reperta et 3 (v. 4?) 
Nov: Zelandie y. Americee antareticze propriis. 
Ordo parvus, olim Zestiaceis adjunetus, fructu et seminibus Zriocauleis affinis, quibus etiam 
habitu mediante Trithwria accedit, ub utroque ordine tamen facile distinguitur perianthio prorsus 
deficiente. 
CONSPECTUS GENERUM. 
* Herbe annue subacaules, foliis scapisque radicalibus. 
l. TnerTHURIA. Capitulum depressum, bracteis oo (ad 6) involueratum. Stamiua cum 
ovariis l-loeularibus in receptaculo subplano mixta, absque bracteis interioribus. Styli in 
ovario 2-3.— Australia austro-occid., Victoria, Tasmania. 
2. APHELIA. Spicula complanata, bracteis (v. glumis) oo distichis 1-foris v. infimis 2-2c- 
floris. Ovarium 1-loeulare, stylo unieo.— Australia austro-occid., Victoria, Tasmania. 
3. CeNTROLEPI, —Spieule braetee (v. glumsw) 2, alterne, 1-oo-flome. Ovarii loculi v. 
lobi 3-oo, 2-seriatim superpositi, rarius ad 1 v. 2 reducti, styli totidem.— Australia, Asia 
austr. or. 
** Herbe perennes, caspitoso-ramose, dense foliate fere snusciformes, pedunculis terminalibus. 
4. GarwamDiA. Spieule braetee (v. glumse) 2, alterne, 1-2-flome. Ovarii loculi v. carpella 
stylique 2, rarius 3-4.—Nov. Zelandia, Amer. antarct. 
1. Trithuria, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 78, t. 138. —" F. siMuell, pd Gen. Rep. 
Jl. 
16, nomen tantum.)—Flores in capitulo dep: sessiles 
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