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spikelets. Male inflorescence commencing from below the middle of 
the stem, Spikelets sessile in dense tufts or heads of 3 to 8 or 10 or 
rarely solitary, the heads either all sessile and distant, or here and 
there a pedunculate head issuing from the same bract, or in other 
specimens several peduncles or branches clustered with the sessile head, 
each bearing 1 to 4 heads or solitary spikelets, each spikelet narrow- 
ovate, 25 to 3 tapé long. Glumes narrow-ovate, ciliate at the end, 
with a rigid point or short awn, 3 or 4 lower glumes empty. Per ianth- 
Segments 5 or 6, all ie he i inner ones very thin. N o rudimentary 
ovary. Females unknow 
E le Australia, Drummond, n. 341; sand plains, Upper Kalgan River, F. Mueller, 
? Species appears in many respects allied to R. dimor phus. 
8. R.? sphacelatus, R. Br. Prod. 246.—Stems erect with flexuose 
brinches, terete or very slightly compressed, rigid, glabrous, 6 to 8 in. 
high. Sheathing scales appressed, slightly ciliate, rounded at the end, 
With a small point. Male spikelets all terminal, ovate, dark-coloured, 
scarcely 3 lines long, Glumes ovate, obtuse or with very short points, 
outer ones empty. Perianth very flat, segments 5 in the flowers 
x ned, 6 according to R. Brown, 2 outer ones linear complicate, 3 
inner lanceolate and flat. Filaments rather long. Rudimentary ovary 
minute emales unknow 
W. Australia. Lucky Bay, R. Brown. Apparently allied to R. deformis. 
9. R. deformi s, R. Br. Prod. 245.—Rhizome creeping, the white 
woolly hairs Sot but sometimes wearing 0 ems under 1 ft. 
igh, terete, erect and simple or with few flexuose branches, quite 
8. 
t and narrow "inicie Rudiment t ot the ovary minute 
M ay e See ate similar, but the spikelets rather smaller, ith 
9 ds ‘Shy eriant -segments not ciliate. vary 2-ce ed. Style 
oblique. Capenls 2-celled and regular, or 1-celled by abortion and 
Ww Australia, Lucky Bay, R. Brown ; also Drummond, n, 96. 
alls. R. crispatus atus, R. Br. Prod. 246.—Very near R. deformis, but 
me r and more slender, the short flexuose flowering branches numerous, 
"ing it almost the a aspect of a Caustis, the rhizome glabrous or near] 
wd. re arren flexuose branching stems. Sheathing A cid 
> luflorescence of R, deformis. Male spikelets ovate, about 2 
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