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breviora, margine lanuginoso-tomentosa, Stigraata capillariaj per- 

 brevia, teauissime puberula. Carjopsis maturata milii incognita. 

 Diagnosis Brownii pro recognoscendis speciebus uimis brevis. 



Leptocarpus tenax (R. Br. Prodr. 250 ; J. Hook. Fl. Tasm. ii. 



73 ; Schceuodum tenax, Labill. Nov. IIolL Plant. Specim. ii. 80, 



tab. 229, quoad plantam feminam ; Kunth Enuni, iii. 445 ; Steud, 



Ghim. ii, 257) a vicinia montis Gambier, ubi me ipso observatu.«, 



in tractum Blue Mouutains (Woolls) et usque ad urbem Newcastle 



(Leicbhardt) extendit, atque in Tasmania copiose occurrit, tam iu 



plauitiebus turfoso-uliginosis quam iu paludibus. Cuules l^l' 



alti, recti, simplices v. passim ramigeri, fere solidi, albido-rugulati 



sicut impre^so-punctulati, nec non subtiliter striolati. Petioli arcti, 



truncati v. acuminati, primum antice tenerrime membranei, iuter- 



dum in mucronem brevem terminantes. Fanicula mascula efFusa, 



quadri-poUicaris v. brevior, polystachya. reduuculi cano-tomen- 



telli. Spiculie turglde ovatae, lg-2'" lougae, flores perpuucos 



gerentes. Bractece appresgo-imbricata), ovat;^, mutic^, circlter 



lineam longje, glubraG ; imae abbreviata^ ; nuUce spathaceje. Sepala 



5-6, oblongo-lanceolata, obtusiuscula, circiter ^'" longa, scarioso- 



membranea. Filamenta perbrevia. Antberai 3 ellipsoidete, mu- 



ticae, I'" longa?, iufra medium dorsi affixae, haud exsertoe. Inflo- 



rescentia femina omnino dissimilis, pauiculam spicatam constituens, 



interdum paucirameam, 1-4" longam ; nonnunquam autem spicula 



una alterave in caule sigillatim terminah's. Spiculse sessiles, 



glabrsB, pluriflorae, circiter semipollicares, ambitu fere obconicse. 



Bracteas 2-3'* longag, cartilaginea^, undique imbricatse, fusc^e, aetate 



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nigrescentes, apicem versus sa^pe squarrosse, sursum lanceolatie, 

 deorsum cucullata^ ; inferiores vacuse. Sepala 5 glabra, 1^-2 

 longa ; 2 lateralla cymbea, primum dorso apicem versus conspicue 

 alata, denique cainnata ; 3 interiora yarie angustiorn, sed vix 

 breviora, onmia su!) anthesi non raro roseo-tincta, Stjlus decolor^ 

 capillaris, glaber, fere lineam longus. Stigmata 3 pulchre rubra, 

 subtilissime papillosa, saltem lineam metientia. Caryopsis lineam 

 longa, teuuiter trigono-ellipsoidea, iineam sequans, stylo rostrata. 

 Pericarpium membraneum. Semina fulvida, laevissima, leniter 

 nitentia, tenui-ellipsoidea, fere transparentia, g"' longa. 



Hcec planta in Agrostotheca Sieberi Fub nominibus numerisque 

 sequentibus distributa est. Kestio cinerascens, n. 41 ; R. gracilis, 



n. 47 ; R. pallens, n. 48. 



Leptocarpus dcscrtus, 



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Raraosus, caulibus prominule striolatis, petiolis arctisacuminatls, 

 spiculis parvis secus ramos payiicnlcE patentis remotiascule spi- 

 catis^ bracteis sepala glabra fere lanceohita mutlca superantibus 

 femineis mucronulato-acuminatis, caryopai satis minuta trigono- 

 ovata. 



