200 CXLI. CENTROLEPIDEX. [ Aphelia. 
1 or 2 bracts, each flower within one or two hyaline scarious — 
sometimes minute of wanting to the upper flowers. Stamen ^ 
filament ada mha ee or oblong. Ovary of a single Ec 
g into ingle style with a linear stigma. 
d e exem. from fhe ovary, the membranous pericarp opening inà 
longitudinal slit.—Small tufted plants. Leaves radical, linear- lior. 
Scapes slender, with a terminal flat ovate or lanceolate spike, the brae 
complicate and distichously spreading, closely or loosely imbricate. 
The genus is limited to Australia. 
Bracts narrow, lo osely imbricate, teno mostly herma- 
phrodite paasa in the lowest bra 1. A. cyperoides. 
Bracts rather broad, closely a a ag p a femalo and 
e — upper bracts, 1 or more male in 1 or 2 
Spike” ‘nodding lanceolate. SM las Ta the 2 
outer wii or 3 male flow 2. A. nutans. 
Spike ovate, tanisi to one aido. ine peo bract 
thers 
o 
ost bract narrow with x rarely 2 male men 
= others ee without d or very min A 
Š eat aou gracilis. 
sario: ge broad wi 
the eere saga isa keel, ca an inner ped tile 
the 4. A. Drummondit. 
Spike ovate, erty tho lowest 2 bracts aiy equal, each 
1 flow Inn 
er scales of the 
% to $ in. Upper bracts appressed, hairy, 
with eon margins bp 5 vis nd rounded at the 
Eastern 
base. Sou 
Plant of 1 in. or more. Poe "bi acts with a winged 
or nemi imei otherwise erani Western 
spec 
5. A, pumilio. 
6. A. brizula. 
A. cyperoi ius KE. Br. Prod. 252. | Boni 1 to 38 in. bos 
Lenves shorter, sheathing at the base with scarious margins some 
slightly ciliate. Spike ovate, rather loose, the bracts narrows 
cuminate, not keeled i i 
n 
l. Preiss. ii. 71; F. Muell. Fragm. v. . 204; 
Hieron. Centrol. 94. 
W. Australia. King George's qera e neighbouring districts, Æ. m 
Preiss, n. 1748, Oldfield, F. Mueller and o 
Hi m poses to limit the genus op this species as having all the flower 
solitary and hermaphrodite. I have howe im in| e specimens I have ex f them 
found 2 flowers in the lowest and sometimes also in the next bract, and one 0 
or sometimes both male only without any ov; 
2. A. nutans, Hook. £ in Herb. Kew.—Scapes 1 to 2 in. sg 
Leaves short. Spike nodding, lanceolate, 3 to 4 lines long 
