282 OXLIIL CYPERACER. [ Cyperus. 
longer than the inflorescence and sometimes very long. Spikelets 
spreading, flat, rarely above 2 lines long, with 5 to 8 flowers, the rhachis 
very short, but more or less distinctly bordered by hyaline wings. 
Glümes rather narrow, spreading, strongly several-nerved, the keel 
sometimes produced into a minute point. Style 3.cleft. Nut oblong, 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; N. W. ient 
Hughan; Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 791; 
Sweers Island, Henne ; the latter specimens with rather larger spikelets and very 
spreading glumes. 
Q. sexflorus and C. microcephalus, R. Br. l. c. both from the same localities in 
Gulf of Carpentaria, appear to me to be slight varieties of C. sporobolus, with 8 
heads of spikelets and fewer flowers in each spike et 
. C. angustatus, 2. Br. Prod. 214.—Stems rather slender, d 
tusely triquetrous, 1 to 3 ft. high. Leaves narrow, mostly ghor 
than the stem. Spikelets 4 to 10 together in close clusters in 4 € 
i e 
appressed or rarely slightly spreading, rather narrow, the keel prod : 
into a small point, the sides striate with 2 or 3 rominent ne 
Style 3-cleft,, Nut narrow-oblong, sometimes slightly clavate, t 
trous, nearly as long as the glume.— Beeckel. in Linnea, XXXVI. 99^ 
N. Australia. North coast, R. Brown ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 259. Down» 
x land. King's Creek, Bowman ; Gracemere, Q' Shanesy ; Bowen 
irch. 
50. C. Novee-Hollandiz, Beckel. in Linnea, xxx ir 
Rhizome thiek and hard. Stems stout, acutely 3.angled in t d vat 
art, 3 to 4 ft. high. Leaves often longer than the stem, the broad. 
ong, the lamina keeled below flat upwards an 9 to 3 lines 
lumes t. the si 
narrow, obtuse or the keel produced into a very short pomt — very 
iti gin le 3-left. N" 
Queensla.i. Rockingham Bay, Da/achy ; Rockhampton, Thozt. 
