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Aiistr. i. 96) in Aiistralia felice reperitur aJ Axe-River, Moiuit 

 Emu Creek, Hopkins-River, sed plantulam fortasse multis locis 

 proetervidimus, quouiam in Australiam occidcntalcm extcndit, ut 

 collectio Drummondi (sub 689) docet. 



Cl^PERACE^, 



Hypccli/ptum argentextm, 



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VaLl Eiium. riant. ii. 283 ; Lipocarpha argentea, K. Br. Obscrv. on Plants 

 of Centr. Africa, p. 40 ; Kuntli. Enum. iL 2G6, c. synonym. ; Scirpus 

 Senegalcnsis, Lani. III. i. 140. 



Altiory caulibus trigonis crassiusculis folia supcrantibus, spiculis 

 3-7 confertis longe foliaceo-involucratis^ hracteis JloiaUhus fere 

 spatulatiSy stigmatibus tribus, caryopsi apiculata scabrida, 



Ad sinum maris Moreton-Bay ; F. Bailey. 



Ab lioc dilficulter discerno H. spliacelatum (Yalil 1. c.)» 



Hypcelyptum microcephalum (R. Br. Pr. 220 ; Lipocarpha mi- 

 croccphaia, R. Br. Observ. p. 40; Stcud. Ghim. li. 130; Benth. 

 Flor. Hongk. p. 388 ; Scirpus leptocarpns, F. M. in Transact. 

 Phil. Inst. Yict. i. 109) obtincmus a ripis fluminum King's, Oven's, 

 Murray*s et Darling's River atque a Murrumbidgee et Brisbane*s 

 River (F. M.), Herberfs Creck (Bowman), Becf-Creek et Tlier- 

 momcter-Crcek (Bunce et Lelchliardt), Dawson's et Mackenzie^s 

 River (0'Shanesy), a Rockingham's Bay (Dallachy), Gilbert's et 

 Norman's River (T. Gulliver), Ashbnrton^s Range et Newcastle- 

 Water (J, M. Stuart). Planta spithamsea vel varie humilior* 

 Spiculai 1-6, longitudine a l^ ad &" variantes. Apcx bractearum 

 floralium setaceus, nunc longiusculus, nunc valde abbreviatus* 

 Planta Javanica et Chuiica nostrie congrua. 



Hypolytriim latifolium (CI. Rich. in Pcrs. Synops. i. 70 ; 

 Kunth. Enum. ii. 27, c. synon.) a Rockingham*s Bay habemus. 



Fuirena glomcrata (Lam. 111. i. 150 ; R. Br. Pr. 220 ; Kunth- 

 Enum. ii. 184 ; F. Rottbocllii, Nees in Wight's Contrib. p. 94) per 

 Anstraliam humidiorem extratropicam satis ample vagatur. Jam 

 statu praicoce paucorum mensium florescit, et passim ad caulem 

 bipoliicarem unispiculatum deminutnr. Haic species in- Australia 

 orientali saltcm usque ad Moreton's Bay desccndit. 



Fuirena umhellata (Rottb. Nov. PL 70, t. 19, fig, 3 ; R. Br. Pr. 

 220; Kunth. Enum. ii. 185, c. synon. ; Bentli. FJor. llongk. p. 

 395 ; F. pentagona, Wight et Arn. Bot. Ind. 93) antccedente 

 multo rarior est. Exemplaria hinc cxstant a Rockhampton (Bow- 

 man), Rockinghani's Bay (Dallachy), Fitzmaurice^s et Victoria^a 

 River (F. M.). Caulis altitudinem 5' attinet, Bases caulium in 

 rhizomate procurrente tumcscunt. 



Ilelcocharis jlantaginca (R. Br. Fr, 224 in nota) ad flumcn 

 Brisbane's River a cl. Bailey repericbatur, Positio eystcmatica 



