264 CXLIIL CYPERACEA. (Cyperus. 
"River, Drummond, n., 825, Preiss, n. 1808. Widely 
spread over the warmer regions both of the New and the Old ld, d is. 
time districts. The A ian specimens have all the typical pale-coloured spikele 
In the Me ; 
region the C. junciformis, Cav., now gener: recognis io 
a variety of levigatus, with dark brown glumes more prominently keeled, is mo 
tralia, 
11. C. platystylis, 2. Br. Prod. 241—Stems tufted, rather stout, not 
above 1 ft. high. Leaves rather br 
lines long, 13 lines broad, acute, the rhachis not winged. Glumes ud 
regularly distichous and imbricate, broadly eoncave, the lower nin 
obtuse, the upper ones acute, the keel slightly prominent sometim 
_ IN. S. Wales. Hawkesbury, R. Brown, The style is quite that of Fimbristy- 
lis, all the other characters those of Cyperus. 
12. C. alopecuroides, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. Pl. 38, t. 8, ff ne 
Stems tufted at the base, stout and triquetrous, attaining 3 or * ™ 
b 
1 to 2 long, all shorter than the inflorescence. Spi er 
ceolate, not very flat, mostly about 2 lines | 1 à 
road, pale-coloured, 8- to 12-flowered, or rarely longer pas 
flowers, the rhachis angular but not road, epe , 
2 orrarely 3. Style 2-cleft, one branch often very short, rarely H 
Nut obovate, scarcely half the length of the glume, much flattened.. 
oad inner face next the rhachis, the back convex or with a m 
central angle, —R. Br. Prod. 217; Kunth, Enum. ii. 19; Bæckel. 
Linnea, xxxvi. 321; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 263, ; 
Queensland, Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Gracemere, 0’ Shanesy. 
An unnamed specimen in herb. R, Brown, in the'next sheet to his C. alopeeuroida 
and probably representing the O. compositus, R. Br. 12017, Mons to be 
des with the inflorescence not yet fully developed. e species extends 
over tropical Asia and Africa, 
