- 
Cyperus.) . CXLIII. CYPERACER. : 261 
Ir 
esl + 
meee T luteolus, Beeckel. in Flora, 1875, 82 (from the character 
Queens, eensland, Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Brisbane River, F. Mueller 
Pb ia Upper Hume River at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft. F. 
B The spegies A over Nepauland the eastern provinces of India, it is usd in 
razil andtin S th Africa, where however the ei C. lanzeus, Thunb., with m 
acute dtepibrown spikelets, is much more abundan 
ne 6. C. polystachyus, Rottb. Deser. et Ic. Pl. 39, t. 11. f. 1—A 
hs ed perennial. icm dei saga ft. to above 2 ft. high, trique- 
Tous but not very stout. arrow, much shorter than the 
stem, with Short broad sheaths, rather ge aan crowded into a 
n slightly winged. Glumes closely distichous, 
eor with the keel produced into a short point, the 
Stamens usually 2. Style 2-cleft or very 
. Nut narrow, eiiis t$ half so long 
—R. Br. Prod. 214 ; Kun th, Enu ; Bæckel. in 
nea, xxxv. 477 ; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 265. 
Cat gena] and, Neibb lands, R. Brown ; Sir C. Hardy Island, Henne ; 
E Sa Daemel ; Rockingha a a P Dallachy ; Port Curtis U Gillioray ; ‘Bris- 
Gan zm Moreton Bay, F. Mueller ; Rockhampton and various localities in S. 
Ns and, enne and many ot ets. 
DW S. Port Jackson, R. Brown Woolls, and n: New land, 
C. Stuar t; Clarence River, Beale: ; Richmond Ri ver, 'Q. Moon e 
Var. ? en: el of ng clusters, often stipitate and Tt racemose or 
N m an um 6 to 1 dives the longest often 2 to 3 in. long. 
ut rather broader, (y aquatilis, F.M EY, viii. 270, not of R. Br. 
N. Australia. 
Arnhem's Land, F. 
Queensland. Daintree River, p eis "rssh nigh Bay, Dallachy. 
reigns Varie has much resemblance with some of the looser flowered forms 
It ma Aly ikelets, but is readily di uished by the MM ihe and nut. 
"ont ores species but is th the typical form by sev 
«d World € species is common in the warmer regions of both the New and 
and to the extending northward to the A chery diterranean and S. China in the Old World 
Southern United States in 
lo vag omor: and loose, often compoun 
ous]: n 4 to 6 inches v longe with numerous spikelets variis 
hich picat ink the par Involucral bracts 3 or 
much longer than "hei infloresence, and the lowest iie: 
broad. Spikelets spreading, lanceolate, flat, ; to 1 
