280 CXLIIL OYPERACER. [ Cyperus. 
Victoria.: Murray River, F. Mue 
Central edis; Charlotte Waters "E Alice Springs, Giles, 
W. Australia, Murchison River, Oldfield 
y lin 
and the infloresence very irregular asin C. longus, but the shape of the ipie E - 
of the glumes are those of C. rotund "The followin saci aristios are at first sight m 
distinct, but pass gradually into the more typical fo 
Var. carinalis, EAREN rather long, the keel of the glumes green, broad and 
very prominent, s ged,—Rocki Ce din Bay, Dallachy. 
Var. a reine Spikelets short in loose spikes, very vim -coloured, rs oie This 
almost hyalin ygnet vn ih A. Cunningham, Tambo in nslan nd, Wi 
i entical with, the E 
e 
Kunt Keil ii 61, To. it rarius die (A sear iosus, R. Br. Pr od, 216 e 
sheet of his specimens labelled N. coast, an r sheet from the east etl Is ak 
i s the common C, rotundus, though wi iiim i spikelets, The third sheet, xm 
Gulf of Carpentaria, belongs perhaps to the C. carinatus, the rhachis 0 
a is not winged, 
is abundantly strages over the tropical and temperate regions vu 
NM. and th the. Old World, yid any places almost as much as in Australia wit 
sometimes difficult to distinguish tiom ne esculentus, or oer C. longus, but I do 
think that the true C. /ongus has yet been detected in Austr 
Q. Luerssenii, Women in Flora, 1875, 86, from Port imt Amalia nets 
must be very near of the slender _ dra awn-up specimens of C. 7 
i en y different an » 
and structure, Stem slender, 1 to 13 ft. dew Leaves fow, ‘short, the lower ones 
duced to sheaths, ee l simple of 4 or 5 filiform rays, 2 to ut 36 oe 
alternate at the end of the rays, 13 to 16 lines long and 4 line broad, with 1 Nut 
flowers. Glumes Labs and several-nerved on the back, Tavola on the sides. 
length. 
scarcely half their 
45. C. sten acts cerrada Benth.—Rhizome thick and horizontal oF 
shorter or one longer than the Wiat. pos elets linear pond 
= of a rich brown, 4 to 8 lines long, under 1 line broad, with 1 
0 flowers, the rhachis bordered b Glum 
P 
nervele 
rather broad. Stamens 3. Style 
trous, not quite half the length of da cp 
W. Australia. Drummond, ex 935. The inflorescence and many € character: 
those of C. rotundus, but it is much taller plant, and the scarcely 8€ zar 
crowded spikelets are narrower aa yet much flatter than ever observed ed in 
. Species. 
46. C. congestus, Vahl; Kunth, Enum. ii. 87.—Stems rather - 
