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Stirps generi Fimbristyll inter Cjperaeeas habitu admodum 

 similis. Rliizoma multicaule. Caules digitalcs usque pedales, 

 tenui-filiformes, exsulcij puuctato-scabriusculi, basi sqiinmis muticis 

 et petiolis folio mucroniformi terminatis explauantibus stlpati. 

 Capitula ovata v. globoso-ovata, 3-5'" longa, pkui- v. multiflora, 

 Bracte^ mox secedentes, exteriores interioribus majores atque 

 longius mucrouatie ; lamina 3-1'" longa, castaneo-fusca, rigidula, 

 glabra v. sursum barbato-ciliuta. Sepala nisi follor tria, circiter 

 sesquilineam longa, pellucida^ diu persisteutia, basi fere unguicu- 

 lata, apicem ycrsus parum ciliata nisi glaberrima, Antherse 

 lineares, acutte, d^^rsifixoe, versatiles, muticae. Stylus capillaris, in 



stigma sensim transiens, quocum circiter 2 



longus. 



acutiuscula^ statu nondum plane maturo vlx lineam longa. 



Caryopsis 



Cyp?race^. 



Schoeniis pleiostemoneus. 



(Sect. Eljnantlius.) 



Humilior, raultlcaulis, glaher^ caulihus unispiculatis tcnui-fili- 

 formibus sulcato-striatis, vaginis arctls imberbibus folio mucro- 

 ntformi termluatis, spicula lanceolari-ellipsoidca^ bracteis cymbeo- 

 lanceolatis scnsim acutis, infimis longiusculis in mucronem productis, 

 staminibus 4-6, antheris brevissimc mucronulatis, stylo capillari 

 stigmatibus barbellatis paulo longiore, caryopsi turgida ovata 

 erostri leniter rugulosa. 



Circum paludes juxta montes Putingup et Stirling's Range ; 

 Maxw. 



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Planta digitalis usque pedalis, faciem Onychosepali fere imitans. 

 Canles nudi, ad basim vaginis castaneo-fuscis obvallati, Folia 

 praiter mucrones vaginarum nuUa. Spicula 4-5'" lon2:a. Bractece 



dilute fusctB, imberbes, appressse, haud rigidse. Filamenta ca- 

 pillaria, sat elougata. Antheras basifixae^ sesquilincam longse. 

 Caryopsis linea brevior, apiculo rainuto truncato tcrminata, statu 

 omnino maturo nondum nota. 



Pra^clarus Otto Boeckeler in Linnsea xxxv*-xxxvlii, Cyperaceas 

 musci Bcrolinensis eximie tractavit et species, qua3 sequuntur, 

 Australianas synonymis numerosis additis araplius descripslt : 



Cyperus lauceus (Thunb. Prodr. 19 ; C. latispicatus, Boeck. in 

 Eegensb. Bot. Zeit. 1859, fide Kurz), xxxv. p. 462 ct 467. 



Cyperus globosus (All. Flor. Pedem. 1789 ; C. vulgaris, Sieb. 

 in KuutU Enum. ii. 4), xxxv. pp. 458, 459. 



Cyperus Ilaspan (L. Cod. 61), xxxv. p. 575. 



Cyperus pilosus (Vahl Enum. ii, 354), xxxv, p. 599. 



Cyperus Malaccensis (Lam. Ill i, 416 ; C, monophyllus, Vabl 



Enum. ii. 352 ; C. spaniophyllus, Steud. Glum. ii. 21), xxxv. p. 

 603. 



Cyperus Eragrostis (Vahl Enum. ii. 322), xxxv. pp. 443 446. 



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