Cuperus.] CXLIII. CYPEBRACE £F. 273 
N. S. Wales. Paterson's Riv er, R. Brown; teehee and Macquarrie Rivers, 
A, Fern; Per England, C. Moore, C. Stua 
tralia, Behr, ; Spencer 's Gulf, A. pitis Torrens River, F, Mueller ; 
Central petaen ge 8 Expedi 
W. Australia. rchison Ever, Oldfield. 
Var, densiflorus, mien not so stout and more evidently striate. Involucral bracts 
much shorter, Heads of spikelets small Me crowded into a dense compound se end 
cluster. —6. gy ymnocaulos, Steud. Syn. Glum ‘12 ae described as di 
nous); C. cruciformis, Boeckel. in Linnea, v. 612 
Victoria. 
l 3, 334, 42 
F. Mueller, Fragm. viii. 261, refers this species to the South African C. textilis, 
unb. that species however has a much looser and more compoun gen ies 
- uci bracts longer and more numerous, and the glumes of a pale c 
aline margins. i vaginatus is perhaps nearer to the C, marginatus, Thunb, 
but I think distinct from both. 
s: afew of Leichhardt specimens and in one of Gosse's the spikelets are very 
long with numerous thin pale-coloured glumes d keeled, but the flowers are 
all Mistive ads hee spikelets therefore in an abnormal state. 
30. C. holoscheenus, R. Br, Prod. 215.—Stems from a thick 
horizontal or creeping Menkes 1 to 2 ft. high, apc 3- rahe ed. 
Leaves rather narr rrow, sometimes nearly aslong as the stem, Spikelets 
small, in Seiad globular clusters E heads 2 to 3 lines eos in an 
irre arly compound umbel o 0 8 or even more rays, the longest 2 
to 3 in n. long.  Involueral bracts ~ or 4, narrow, 1 to 2 of them longer 
than the oomai, the heads or clusters subtended by glume-like 
bracts, Spikelets flat, pale brown, ipa lanceolate or oblong, 1 to 14 
lines long, = fully 1 line broad, with 5 to 8 or rarely more flowers, 
the rhachis i 
loosely imbreate, obtuse or almost acute, of a thin pale texture, striate 
with 2 kane e nerves on each side. Stamens 3. sh i 3-cleft. aid 
XA Australia. Islands of the Gulf o f Carpentaria, R. Brown; Arnhem Land 
Gui PP Vietoria River, F. Mueller; between the Norman and Gilbert Rivers, 
Top Barcoo Downs, Birch. 
ft - dactylotes, Benth—Stems usually rather e and 2 to 3 
d but sometimes more slender and scarcely above 1 ft., terete or 
x 3-angled. Leaves rather long, but only sent wit th v very few 
Pecimens, Spikelets numerous in dense clusters or reer ina usually 
ut very variable umbel, de longest rays often 6 in. jong, 
"tial umbels very dense, Involueral bracts several, of which 2 to 
1 longer than the inflorescence and 2 to 4 lines broad at the base. 
jdikelte pomi flat, very regular, usually 6 to 9 lines but sometimes at 
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winged. Glumes loosely imbricate, not very Aso: obtuse of: the 
be = a aay into a minute point, the sides more or less — 2- 
