112 NKW SPECIKS OF WEST AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 



Spikelets lanceolate, acute, compressed, -^31 lines long, 2-flowered, 

 the upper maturing fruit. Glumes acute, with a prominent black 

 dark brown keel, the brown membranous margins scantil}'' ciliate, 

 4-5 outer empty ones graduall}^ shorter. Hypogynous bristles very 

 unequal, 2 about J as long as the nut, acuminate, slightly ciliate. 

 Stamens 3. Nut whitish, obovate, obtusely trigonous, almost 

 stipitate, minutely granular, ^ line long. 



Zoc— Near Torbay Inlet (December, 1902; H. Sheath). 



This species is allied to S. indutiLs, F.v.M., differing principally 

 in the stems being constantly glabrous, in the bearded orifices to 

 the leaf-sheaths, and in the upper flower alone developing fruit. 

 Externall}^ the spikelet bears a close resemblance to that of S. 

 Jiod way aims, W. Y. Fitzg., but the structure and nut are very 



different. 



ScHCENUs Andrewsii, sp.nov. 



Rhizome tufted. Stems rigid, erect, terete, deeply striate, 

 resinous-scabrous, 1-Hfeet high, leafless except several loose sheath- 

 ing bracts at the base, 1 or 2 inner ones rather long, brown or almost 

 h3"aline and terminating in subulate, striate, slightl}^ resinous 

 lamin?e of 1-2 inches, lower sheaths dark brown and shining, the 

 orifice glabrous or slightly' ciliate. Panicle very narrow, H-2 

 inches long. Floral bracts shortly sheathing, the lower one end- 

 ing in a leaf-like lamina sometimes longer than the inflorescence. 

 Spikelets 1-2 in each bract, the second one alwa3^s shortly pedi- 

 cellate, pale brow^n, ovate-lanceolate, slightly resinous, 3J lines 

 long, with 2 flowers, the second maturing fruit. Glumes mucro- 

 nate, slightly ciliate, 2-3 outer empty ones. Hypogynous bristles 

 small, ciliate. Stamens 3. Style with 3 plumose stigmatic lobes. 

 Nut brown, narrow-ovate, trigonous, tuberculate, nearly 1 line 

 long, shortly stipitate and crowned by the hardened base of the 

 style. 



Loc. — Cannington; in heathy or sandy spots (C. R. P. Andrews, 

 young flowers, November, 1902: W. V. Fitzgerald, flower and 

 fruit, January, 1903), 



Apparently this species has no immediate ally. The nut is 

 quite that of Elynanthus. In the proximity of the flowers and 



