180 - CXXXVIII. NAIADEX. [ Lepilena. 
F. Mueller to this uic The specimens are unfortunately not in a state for aee 
Tate determination. The young fruits are broader than in As australis and. slightly 
tuberculate, the i ioe but the stigmas already worn 
2. L. cylindro ocarpa, Benth.—A diccious plant with the filiform 
stems and eapillary leaves of L. australis, but the bases of the leaves 
scarcely dil ated and the stipular sheaths of the floral leaves much nar- 
thin, not exceeding the carpels and not very conspicuous. Carpels 
about 1 line long, rather more slender than in L. australis, sue filiform 
style as long as the carpel, with an oblong stigm ma.— Zannichellia 
cylindrocarpa, Aouncks in Walp. Ann. vi. 3; Hezatheca Kanu 
Sond. MS.; included in deren Preissii by F. Muell. Fragm. 
vin. 217. 
Victoria. Saline waters at di mouth of the Yarra and near Station Peak. 
F. Mueller, 
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asmania. Near Hobarton, Gun 
S. Australa. Saline Marshes, Port Adelaide, F. Mueller, 
3. L. Preissii, P. Muell. Fragm. viii. 217, pa rtly. — Stems u 
leaves usually still finer than in the two preceding anise the gno 
ing bases very narrow. Male flowers much the s Females usually 
Flowers shortly pedicellate within the sheath, the pedicel rarely 
slightly exceeding it when in fruit. Periant th-segments rather longer 
than the carpels, narrow but usually striate aud whitish or more or less 
scarious so as to be much more conspicuous than in L. cylin ue t 
Fruit-carpels cylindrical, almost sessile, about 1 line Jong. Styl? 
filiform, longer than the ‘ea pel with an e clavate stigma.— 
Zannichellia Preissii, Lehm. in Pl. Preiss. 
Victoria. Lake Wellington and Lake Calvert 1 F, Muelle 
W. Australia, rem n. 115, 181 ; Canning ae Preiss, n. 1819; north 
of Stirling Range, F. Mue 
8. NAIAS, Linn. 
(Caulinia, Wild.) 
Flowers unisexual, solitary in the axils of floral leaves, pendit 
sci Podali Male flower: anther single, l- or da 
enclosed in a thin membranous bract or perianth, irregularly lobe e 
the top Em often à emis and rolling back so as to — the ap 
of the anther; pollen gl site 
none besides the bract. ie Ura 1, ee apt into a style divided po , 
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