Cyperus. | CXLIII. CYPERACEJX. 275 
rather longer, nearly 2 lines broad, 10- to 30-flowered, the rhachis not 
umes not closely im- 
or 4-nerved. Stamens 
more than half the length of the glume. 
tralia. North Coast, R. Brown ; M‘Adam Range, F. Mueller ; between 
Norman and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. 
ensland. Springsure, Wuth. 
N.S. Wales. Liverpool range, Leichhardt ; New England, C. Stuart ; Mudgee, 
The species is very near C. fulvus with which it is united by F. Mueller, but the 
glumes are much shorter and broader as wellas looser in the spikelets, giving 
inflorescence a very different aspect approaching that of C. alterniflorus. 
35. C. alterniflorus, R. Br. Prod. 216.--Stems rather stout, 
han the stem, 
nearly 15 lines broad, 10- to 30-flowered 
Glumes narrow, spreading and very loosely imbricate, rather acute, the 
keel prominent, with 3 or 4 nerves on each side. Stamens 2 or 3. 
Style usually 3-cleft. Nut narrow, 3-angled, more than half the length 
of the glume.—C. pictus, Steud. Syn. Glum. ii. 43. 
p Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Gracemere, O’ Shanesy ; King's Creek, 
wman (with spikelets above 1 in. long and 50- to 60-flowered). 
S. Australi i ller. 
w. ustralia. 
` 
ena in the interior, F. 
Drummond, n. 75 and 335. 
The species is allied to C. carinatus but readily known by the stature, acute-angled 
0 
"c e pii specimens, but upon a careful comparison I am una le to dis- 
"om C. pilosus, Vahl; Kunth, Enum. ii. 80.—Stems from a thick 
rhizome 1 to 2 ft. high or rather more, stout and acutely 3-angled. 
aves sometimes as long as the stem and rather broad. e 
“ry long and the 2 outer ones broad. Spikelets very spreading, a 
th brown, flat, linear-lanceolate, about 4 lines long, 10- to 16-flowered, 
rama not winged or the angles with an exceedingly narrow * 
pinnately spreading, rather acute, with a green keel -— usually 
