92 CXXXI. COMMELYNACES. [ Cartonema. 
Filaments very short, anthers oblong, the cells opening in some speci- 
ens in terminal pores only, in others the slit extending to the base. 
Capsule small, glabrous. 
Australia. Islands of the north coast, R. Brown ; Victoria River, F. Mueller ; 
north-west coast, Bynoe; Glenelg district, Martin; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 280; 
Liverpool River, Gulliver. 
This was included by Brown in his C. spicatuin, both forms bear in his herbarium 
the specific name of villosa, which was, however, never published, 
4. C. brachyantherum, Benth.—A dwarf plant, the stems not 
above 1 to 2 in. high below thé spike, the leaves mostly exceeding the 
Queensland. Port Denison, Fitzalan. 
Orver CXXXII. JUNCACER. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or diccious. Perianth inferior, persistent; 
with or without a distinct tube, the limb or perianth of 6 lobes or seg- 
ments imbricate in 2 series or the outer ones rarely valvate, all or at 
least the outer ones, or in diccious species, at least the females glume- 
like or rigid, or scarious thin and almost hyaline, the inner ones rarely 
al-l 
or amphitropous. Style either single with a small terminal stigma, oF 
short an ivi i 3 ob 
rarel 
or tuberous or creeping rhizome, or the stock growing up into a woody 
caudex rarely almost arborescent. Flowering stems or scapes leafless 
