412 A NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOSPERMA, ETC. 



Glurna3 obtusse, costa elongata ad manifestum apicem. Spicula 

 8-9 mm. longa. Inflorescentia immatura f usca-pallida, maturitHt& 

 atrior. Flores steriles fertilesque tamquam in genere. Nuces 

 obovoidese, costis tribus, complanatis, basi attenuatse, delicatis- 

 sime reticulate, non nitidpe, immaturitate rubentes, maturitate 

 gradatim decolorantes. Squamae incompositse, ssepe omnes in 

 unum, longiores, angustiores, laxiores quam in L. Jlexuoso R.Br. 



Allied to Z.^e«w,osMm R. Br., and L. car phoides Y.y.M. The 

 former differs in having the stems terete, not grooved; leaf- 

 sheaths closely appressed, with a long lamina; points of the bracts 

 of the panicle-branches, spikelets, and glumes inconspicuous^ 

 nuts oblong, smooth, shining, brown-mottled; scales short, broad, 

 appressed; the whole plant smaller and less robust. 



L. carphoides differs in the appressed leaf-sheath with long 

 lamina; fruit obtusely angular, strongly reticulate; scales almost 

 regular, standing out from the attenuate base of the nut; panicle 

 spike-like, the branches not flexuose. 



This plant was first discovered in a swamp in the Centennial 

 Park, in March, 1897, by Mr. W. Forsyth, a Member of this 

 Society, who forwarded specimens to the National Herbarium^ 

 On examining the material, it was found that there were no 

 mature fruits (which furnish an important character in the genus). 

 A provisional description was prepared, and laid aside with the 

 specimens, awaiting more advanced nuts. Later, the writer 

 collected fruiting specimens in the same locality. While work- 

 ing recently on Cyperaceous plants, particularly Lepidosperma, I 

 prepared some notes on this species which were forwarded, with 

 complete botanical material, to Mr. Maiden, who later on 

 returned them, accompanied by the " Herbarium Notes," which 

 he generously placed at my disposal. The plant appears to be 

 confined to the above locality. The name is proposed in compli- 

 ment to the discoverer. The type-specimens will be presented to 

 the National Herbarium. 



Tricostularia pauciflora Benth. 



Leura(A. A. Hamilton; November, 1909). New for New South 

 Wales. 



