284 OXLIII, CYPERACER. [ Cyperus. 
minate, rather shorter than the glum o "Basket j in Linnea, x ES ie 
355 ; F. Mu ell. Fragm. viii. 270, pa i ; C. sanguineofuscus, Ne & 
in Ann. Nat. Hist. se r. I, vi. 46, as to the Tasmanian plant; Ho 
Fi. cia ii. 80, t. 139, 
msland. Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt and others; Boyne River, 
Har eth. Wileoe ; 
. S. Wales. Port Jac "i ces Brown, Woolls; Clarence River, "We? 
Hastings River, Leichhardt, 
de toria. = Nee River, E Mueller ; ; Wendu Vale, Robertson. t the 
Tas Common on river banks and in marshy places throughow 
Island, nT. J D. Hooker, 
to 
ecies appears to be limited to Australia, the Brazilian plant referred 
it ig Neos i is evidently the same as C. uut us, Mey. o EU _ Sahrnder ee ae 
‘ferred by Nees to C. mundulus, Kunth, but in óorzectly so ording to differi 
B 
from C. lucidus in the shorter rather "wor spikelets, mo 
shorter less acuminate nuts. oo in his F] Flora of the “British West peri 
unfortunately confounded this gona ascens with the very different C. Jucidut, 
Sw. C. acutus, R. Br. Prod. 217, appears to be only a rather small state of C. 
with fewer rather longer spikelets. 
53. C. pennatus, Lam. ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 80, but no t of B g7 “tin 
—Stems li to 21 ft. high; obseurely triquetrous or almost Us m 
Leaves complicate at the base with ie ther IRE sheaths, ending in 
oblong-lanceolate, thick but more or less flattened, 3 to 5 lines longs l 
to 2 lines broad, pale coloured, 4- to 8-flowered, the rhachis borde 
b yaline wings. Glumes closely imbricate, broad, rathe url 
concave, Dr keeled only above the middle, very obse 
E: 
half the pe the glume.—F. Muell. Fragm R. "e 
ne gpa: Va y edel in Linnea, xxxvi. 340; C. sien 
par- 
hes PENS Fitzmaurice and Upper Victoria Rivers, F. Mueller ; Port 
win, Schultz, n. wen 
road Sound, R. Brown ; Port Molle, M'Gillivray; au 
Damei, R ; Hock barnes Thozet, O' Shanesy (with rather longer sp 
wa! 
darem over East India, the Malayan Archi and the Pacific Ist Islands ig 
been identified as Lamarck’s C. Salis by Kunth, Decasin e and o: mouge 
-perfectly with Poiret's original description, Dict. vii, 240. i Booker y AT 
; take refers B. Brown's €. ventricosus to the American and West African 
