Cyperus. | CXLILI. CYPERACES. 283 
C. rig pe hera el. in Flora, 1875, 86, from Port Mackay, Amalia Dietrich, is 
placed by Beeckeler immediately before C. Nove-Hollandie In the long diagnosis 
including diy Shared ters common to the whole genus, I see nothing to distin tinguish 
it from that spec 
. C. Gunnii, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 80, t. 140. AES iyd 
rigid but not very ‘stout, obtusely triquetrous, from under 1 ft. to 2 o 
sometimes 3 ft. high. Leaves few, sometimes as long as x T iudi 
number, in dense globular clusters or heads in a simple or compound 
umbel of 6 to 10 rays, the longest 1 to 2 or rarely 8 in. long. Involu- 
cral bracts few and narrow, 1 or 2 from 6 in. to above 1 ft. long. 
= Medis mitealia. Dampier s Archipelago, A. rr ia Walcot. 
In the interior, 4. Cunningham; New England, C. Stuart ; 
del E rott ; sata Plains, C. Moore, 
ystori Goulburn and Purdie’s Rivers, F. Mueller ; Wendu Vale, Robertson ; 
immera, 7 Dallachy. 
Tasma “Near Launceston, Gunn, 
Mount Barker, F. Mueller 
F. Mueller unites this EEES the C1 ueidus to which it is nearly allied, bu 
fpem Aide Pe ad be raja tit different in inflorescence as well as in general habit. 
Sion in herb, ro ree d a seaber, but 
evident ^ i doncilbed i. Prodromus, appears to tebe the C. Gun» 
l C. Sieberi, Kunth, cad 6, founded on Sieber’s specimens of bie C. mierocepha- 
T ee: ayy, n. 630 0, which I had at first, from Kunth’s and Backelers irs 
C. 
rather vg singe im would appear, from a specimen I have since seen, 
2 Niro, Beckel. in Flora, 1875, 87, from Port Mackay, Amalia Dietrich, 
ae very near if not identical with C. G unnit. The inflorescence, the spike- 
ets collected in Dan globose heads, the winged rhachis, the long narrow 
1l ha Wer perfectly well, ae that the rays are described as- more ean ie Pn 
tener, cn them, and I do not understand the expression ‘spiculis setaceo- 
aD C. lucidus, R. Br. Prod. 218. —Stems stout, from 1 to 3 or 
a 4 ft. igh, p prominently 3-angled. es often longer than the 
s and ł to lin d. Hoikeleta í in eps oceu upying the whole or 
of upper part of the Molti rays of a large and compound 
x: many rays the longer ones sometimes 8 or 9 in. long, the ign 
d metimes rather loose and 11 to 2 in. long, someting shorte 
» the rays of the infloresence both gener not 
UNT te, the common rhachis more or ue produced. Inyolu- 
3, 4 or more, the outer ones often very broad 1 ft. 
