Cyperus.) OXLIIT. CYPERACER. 277 
y Central Australia, Gosse; Charlotte Waters, Giles; near Mount Murchison, 
onney. 
The species is abundant in tropical Asia, extending northwards to China and 
Japan, and westward to East tropical Africa. 
39. C. eleusinoides, Kunth, Enum. ii. 39.—Stems from a hard 
rhizome 2 ft. high or more, acutely 3-angled. Leaves with long sheaths 
covering the lower part of the stem, the lamina sometimes short narrow 
xxv. 596 ; C. xanthopus, Steud. in Flora, 1842, 595 ; F. Muell. 
Fragm. viii. 264 (partly). 
tralia. Nebo, Gulliver. : 
Queensland, Port enison, Fitzalan ; Rockhampton and neighbourhood, 
* Daltachy, O' Shanesy ; Springsure, Wuth; Lockyer River, Hartmann. 
The species is widely spread over East India and tropical Africa 
_ 40. C. distans, Linn. S-; Kunth, Enum. ii. 93.—Stems 1 to 2 ft. 
high, slender or rather stout, triquetrous. Spikelets at first in narrow 
dense spikes, expanding into loose simple or branched racemes, in a 
Simple or compound umbel, the rays few or many, slender or sometimes 
- Involucre of few narrow bracts, 1 or 2 longer than the in- 
florescence, Spikelets very narrow, linear, 3 to 1 in. ed loosely 
is fih 
XXXV 
612; F. 3 1 b. Descr. et Ic. Pl. 
ao. Muell. Fragm. viii. 266; C. elatus, Rott — 
y Sseenslana, Herbert's River, Dallachy, Bowman ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; 
khampton, 0’ Shanesy. 
‘spines Species has something of the habit of a Diclidiwm, but the rhachis of the 
ipikclets 18 not at all winged It is very widely spread over the warmer regions of 
ati and the Old World. 
i doubtf m us, Sieb. Agrostoth. n. is referred here by Kunth, but the synonymy 
ke s fect state, it certainly 
ver 15 not C, subulatus Br., and is very probably West Podian. 
