272 CXLIII. CYPERACEA, [ Cyperus, 
3 to 5 lines long and scarcely 1 line broad, brown, 20- to 30-flowered, 
h Glumes rat 
the rhachis prominently notehed but not winged rather 
broad, obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, the keel not very | 
prominent, the sides 3- or 4-nerved without nerveless margins, 4 or 
more of the lower ones usually smaller and empty. Stamens 3, 00 
short filaments. Style 3-cleft. Nut ovoid-oblong, obtusely 3-angled 
or dorsally flattened, as long as or longer than the glume. 
S. cane New England and Macleay River, C. Moore; Clarence River, 
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N. es ; 
Wilcox. withstanding the long nut this species appears to be most nearly allied 
to the following. 
28. C. pedunculosus, F. Muell. Fragm, viii. 266.—Stems rather 
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keel prominent, the sides nerveless or very faintly several-netved. 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. j 
_ This and the preceding species have much the habit of the South American b 
simplex, H.B, et K., but are both abundantly distinct i l respects. 
Ub 
29. C. vaginatus, R. Br. Prod. 213.—Stems fromahorizontal or ii^ 
. ing rhizome, rigid, terete or slightly striate, 1 to 3 ft. high, leafless — 
a few brown sheaths at the base, the innermost of which sometimes 3 to 
in. long with a short erect lamina. Spikelets numerous in dense globus 
s of about i in. di 
Glumes closely imbricate but spreading, acute, the en 
rf the sides brown and nerveless. paper 
3-cleft. Nut very prominently 3-angled, rather b ' 
— than half the length of the glume.—Beeckel. in Linn’, 
xxxv. 572. 
“ee Australia. Nichol Bay, Herb. F, Mueller; lagoons, Flinders Rive F 
weiter, 
Queensland. Plains of the Condamine, Leichhardt ; various localities in South 
Queensland, O’ Shanesy, and others. 
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