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latis se?isim aciuninalis cajisfda??i ovatnm <eqiiantihus\Q\ breviter 

 supern.ntibus bracteas obtusas vel parum acutas longe excedeutibiis, 

 stamlnibus sex calyce semibrevioribus, autberis angustls filamento 

 aequilongis, capsula obtusata v. parum acuta, seminibus cancellatis 

 fere ovatis, testa arcta. 



Per Australiam extratropicam sparcissiraus, locos semisalsos 

 quan-ens, iu alpes quantum scio baud adscendens ; Hunter's Riverv 

 (Leycesterl, Arniidale (Perrott), Timbarra (C. St.), Parranintta 

 (^Yoolls), Port Jackson (Sieber, agrostotlieca,n. 17), Snowy-liiver, 

 Campaspe-River, Yarra, Curdie's River, Axe-River (F. M.), 

 Albury (G. Day), Ravenswood (Bissill), Skipton (Whau), Wim- 

 mera (Dallachy), Porongcrup (F. M.), nec non in variis Tasmanioi 

 locis, ut ipse vidi, 



Planta sesquipollicaris usque pedalis. Caules leniter compressi. 

 Vaglna3 ore obtuSiB. Folia caiilem fequantia vel eodem breviora 

 vel in plantoe statu humili eum superantia, subtus striata, supra 

 passim tantum sulco tenui percursa, quo moilo solidiuscula ; florale 

 inflorescentiam a?quans vel longe superans. Panicula quadripoUi- 

 caris vel brevior, nonnunquatn ad flores duos reducta. Sepala 

 2~3'" Jonga, satis pallida ; exteriora interioribus interdum longiora. 

 Semina ^-^'" longa, saturate rufescenti-fusca, nitida ; costai longi- 

 tudinales trausversalibus emincntiores. 



Georgius Bentham, vir venerabilis, in septimo flora; Australianae 

 volumine de amplissimis Juncorum coUectionibus ab anuo 1847 

 usque in recentiora tempora me congestis disseret. 



CTrERACE.K. 



Fimbi-istylis Neilsoni. 



(Sect. Triclielostylis.) 



Glal)ra, foliis angustis canaliculatls caule angiiloso scabrido 

 brevioribus, vaginis lafe membraneis apice obtusis, fascicalis s[ii- 

 oulanmi cymoso-umbellatis, spiculis majusculis ovatis, bracteis 

 laxiusculis cymbeo-ovatis cbtusis marginem vcrsus translucenti- 

 membraueis, infimis trientem dimidiumve spicute attinentibus, 

 stylo glabro stigmatibus tribus longiore, caryopsi pallida clavafo- 

 pyriformi triangulari tuberculata. 



Inter flumina Darling's River et Barcoo, Neilson ; iuter oppidum 



Iloma dictam et flumen Barcoo, Birch. 



Planta pcdalis nisi altior, Folia praeter partcm infcriorem linea 

 angustiora, scabrluscula ; florale cymam raro superans. ^ SpicubB 

 semipoUicem attinentcs, aliquot passim spars^e. Bractein inferiores 

 ad2'"longa3. Stamina tria. Anther^eangustissimie, muticie. Stylus 

 pr[rter basim conicnm tenuis. Caryopsis turgida, in basim stipiti- 

 formem attenuata, vix lineam longa. Spicula^ obiter inspecta? iis 

 Cyperi Kleiniani et C. assimilis a-mulie ; bractere tamen non alat^, 



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