Cyperus. } CXLIII. CYPERACEX. 267 
18? ©. levis, R. Br. Prod. 213.—Not so slender as C. enerv 
Stems 1 ft. high or rather more, acutely triquetrous. Leaves often shave 
lline broad, with thickened nerve-like edges or inflexed margins. Spike- 
lets 6 to 8 or more in a dense sessile cluster, spreading, pale coloured, 
flat, 3 to 4 lines long and about 1 line broad when fully out, 10- to 20- 
flowered, the rhachis not winged. umes spreading, rather broad, the 
eel prominent and sometimes produced into a very short point, the 
Sides nerveless M vog with a dark spot or with a not very 
prominent nerve in the in C. £rinervis. Stamens 2 or 3. 
iio 8-cleft. N ut ape ie about half the length of the 
glume. 
EJ 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Maroochie River, Bailey. 
I have seen but very few specimens of this species which may possibly prove to 
bea variety of C. dee ixi with th of C. enervis, but the habit is some- 
what different from 
19. C. castaneus, Willd. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 21—A small ore 
annua], the stems rarely above 4in. high es joenes under 1 in. 
Leaves setaceous, shor ly lon an the stem Spikelets 
numerous, in dense eluates either solitary adii sessile, or 2 or 3 lateral 
ones on peduncles or umbel- f4 I l brac to 
» OF a rich brown, 4 to 6 lines long and scarcely above 3 line broa 
about 12- to 20-flowered, the rhachis not ed. ME rather 
narrow, the very prominent keel produced into a recurved point, shorter 
however than i in the two following species, with a more or pm distinct 
the length of the glume.—Beckel. in Linnea, xxxv. 496 ; 
Karno var. stenocarpus, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 262. 
Queensland. Dry Beef Creek, Leichhardt. 
ü The ^s tiis is in the East Indian Peninsula, in Ceylon and in S and scarcely 
ikkim, 
the C. aureus, "HB .and K., which is widely spread over the states! 
regions of the New and the Old World. 
“ae C. cuspidatus, H. B. et K.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 22.—A small 
ed annual, resembling C. castaneus and C. squarrosus in habit, but 
than an of few rays cral aiid 2 or 8 longer 
i t orescence. Sp co spreading, 
à rich brown, 3 to es long, sc. above i na "bie with 12 
ie more ers, the rha: ot wing es rather 
en flo ; 
uiid prominently 3-nerved, the keel or dorsal nerve produced into 
ndi, urved or Spreading point, the sides bordered l 
9r hyaline margin terminating often abruptly below the rec 
