234 CXLIL RESTIACER, [ Leptocarpus. 
each other, passing gradually from the very pointed floral bracts and lower 
glumes of 2 lines to the broad scarcely pointed inner perianth-segments 
of under 1 line. Style-branches 3.—F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 91; L 
simplex, R. Br. Prod, 250 (excl. syn. Forst. and Willd.) ; Nees in Pl. 
Victoria. From Port Phillip to Snowy River, Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller ; Wim- 
mera, Dallachy. 
Tasmania. Derwent River, R. Brown ; abundant in wet marshy places through- 
out the island, J. D. Hooker. a 
. Australia. Guichen and Rivoli Bays, St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller ; P 
Lincoln, Brown ; Boston Point, Wilhelmi. 
ft. high. Sheathing scales closely appressed. Spikelets clustered in 
the axils of distant sheathing bracts. Males on short filiform pedicels, 
ovate or oblong, of a shining brown, 2 to 3 lines long. Glumes ovate, 
the , 
appearance. Style-brauches 3. Naut small, brown, 1-seeded as in » 
rest ofthe genus, but the periearp readily splitting into 3 valves 
F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 95; L. ciliaris, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 64, 3 
W. Australia. Swan River, Drummond, lst coll. and n. 946 (d) and "nr 
Preiss. n. 1712 (d)and (1705) (9); Gordon River, Oldfield ; Upper Hay Rivet 
Miss Warburton. 
5. L. coangustatus, Nees in Pl. Preiss. ii. 65.— Rhizome creeping: 
Stem erect, rather slender, usually divided into a few long e 
compound, in narrow spike-like panicles of 1 to 3 in., several of ~~ 
spikes usually forming a long narrow loose panicle of 6 in. to 
Flowers in the spikelet numerous on a ciliate hairy rhachis, 1 or 2 oute® 
glumes brown acuminate and glabrous, the inner ones gradually smalle® 
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