270 CXLIII. CYPERACER. [ Cyperus. 
rays, the longest sometimes 4 to 6 in. long, sometimes all under 1 in. or 
the inflorescence reduced to a sessile compound cluster. In volucral 
appearing amem n from the fall of the lower Voces usually about 
1 line broad or rather more, the rhachis not winged. Glumes rather 
broad, short, regularly spr reading, giving the spikelet a pinnate ap- 
pearanee, more or less acuminate, the keel acutely prominent, with 1 
more or less conspieuous nerve in the middle of each side. — 
2 or 3. Style 3-cleft. Nut rather broad, acutely or at length obtusely 
3-angled, not half so long as the g ume.—Beeckel. in Linnea, XXXV. 
503; C. flaccidus, R. Br. l. c.; Bockel. 1. c. 502; F. Muell. Frog 
viii. 267 ; Q. smboollis O. aquatilis, C. inundatus and C. breviculms, 
R. Br. l.c. 213, 214; C. Lessonianus and C. ripe Kunth, Enum. 
ii. 29, 30, desee to Boeckeler 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; M'Adam Ben 
and Fitzmaurice River, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 313 (scarcely in Howes 
and Spanien doubtful) ; between ‘Norman and Zeta isa isi, Ee 
ueens Poems dE an ver, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham ; 
Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; ; Lizard Island, a pars uà 
Rockhampton and 1 kepta prs i in S. Queensland, Thozet, Bowman, L 
F. Mueiler and man nce 
N. S. Wales. Hu erii eria R. Brown; New England, C. Moore ; Clare 
River, Wilcox ; near Bulli, John 
Victoria? Murray River, F. Mueller, 
I do not quite identify this species with any extra A ustralian one, but it is very 
closely allied to C. esto evs which is ¢ vodio i in tropic: oat aud subtropical hne 
It is exceedingly variable in stature, in the degree of development of the inflo UY 
and in the number of flowers in the spikelets and consequently their shape. . 
ib um forms befo i istinct variet! 
r 
generally they may be plac eries ; th long narrow SP elets is and 
numerous flowers would include €. aquatilis, C. imbecillis and C. trin > fewer 
[n a er or more slen plant, with broader shorte: pikelets, 10 
flowers and more spreading glumes would ude C. flaccidus, C. inundatus an sight 
breviculmis. One of m's ur River specime ooks à d with 
ery different, from the spikelets being only 14 to 2 lines long 1 line broat © g 
8 to 12 fl ew ns fro e interior of have a more 
spec N. 
aspect, and some from Rockhampton have remarkably long spikelets with anm 
flowers. All have the same ce 3-nerved glumes, though the lateral nerv 
sometimes scarcely prominent. 
25. C. Haspan, Linm.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 34.—Stems tufted ed 
shortly creeping, 6 in. to above 1 ft. rarely 2 ft. high, acutely 3-808 
or flat but usually weak. Leaves all reduced to sheathing ee 
with a flat lamina shorter than the stem. Spikelets small, few toget 
in loose clusters in a simple or compound umbel of slender usua 
longer, flat and rather broad. aco linear, flat, acute, 2 b 
length 3 or even 4 lines long, scarcely $ line broad, of £12 to 20 or 
