Cyperus. | CXLIII. CYPERACER. 265 
Sorrow III. Evcyprrvs.—Spikelets flat, with navicular or rarely 
concave glumes usually keeled, the ais not winged or the angles 
rarely bordered by an exceedin gly narrow hyaline margin. Style 3- 
a Nut equally 3-sided, or rarely Gin y tetraphyllus) dorsally com- 
pressed, 
3. C. pulchellus, R. Br. Prod. 213.—A small slender plan with 
tho habit of Kyllinga monocephala, but probably annual. Stems rarely 
above 6 in. high. S med cat shorter, few and narrow or poe 
setaceous. Spikelets numerous, in a dense globular sessile head 3 to 4 
lines diameter saias al bracts usually 3, spreading or reflexed, tw 
of them much longer than the ; DB IL elei very flat, pale: coloured 
on each side, 
obtuse, obtus 
Mu ell, 
ii. 
Stamens usually 1 pud enis 3-cleft. Nut pictis 
sely triquetrous, not quite half as m. as the glume.—F. 
Fragm. viii. 271; Sorostachys Ryle pendes, pne Syn. Glum. 
epi sorostachys, Bæckel. in Linnea, xxxv. 588. 
tralia. Arnhem Bay, R. sib Gulf of g wee F. Mueller. 
Sion Beef Creek, Leichhardt ; Gainsford, Bow 
The species is also in East India and the Mad Archipelago. It is very LOT 
allied to (C. leucocephalus, Retz 
4. C. tenellus, Linn. f.; Kunth, pue ii. 25.—A densely tufted 
aval with filiform stems not exc ceeding 2 and sometimes not above 
i Leaves short and filiform. Spikelets solitary or 2 or 3 
together apparently lateral, one involucral bract erect and tinuous 
st 
margins. Stamens 1 or 2. Style 3-cleft. Nut elipti prominently 
3-angled, more than half the length of the glum ell. Fr 
Vili. 261; ©, minimus, Thunb.; Beeckel. in pue xxxv. 523, not of 
N.S. Wales, Paramatta, Wi 
w. Siento, Drummond, n. a and 366, 
The speci is also 
in New Zealand and in South Africa, it is well figured in 
Phen. Ai flee t. us f. 4 and represented in the Linnean herbarium by an authen- 
Bo ape specimen, modestulus Steud. Syn. pie ii 16 from 
Mie: D peut, which Ihave not seen, is from the character given probably the 
/ 15. C, gracilis, R. Br. Prod. 213.—Stems tufted, very PRU from 
dt 6 in. to nearly 1 ft. high. Leaves filiform, shorter than the stem, 
short brown sheaths. Spikelets usually 2 to 4 or rarely more 
r in a sessile terminal cluster or head. Involucral bracts usually 
