t 
288 CXLIH. OYPERACER, [ Cyperus, 
the wings of the rhachis. „The spikelet falling away eee carrying 
Pr 
off the second E glume.— Mariscus levis, R. Br. 
D Cape York, Hm l; Digs tam T Shanesy, 
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson : Richmond, Woolls. 
Very nearly allied to the fi oo Hie Meets a variety only. Some specimens 
from Endeavour River, Banks and Solander, appear almost intermediate between 
e two. 
61. C. scaber, Benth.—Stems 1 to 2 ft. high or rather more, 
triquetrous and usually very ipn on the angles. Leaves s usually 
shorter but sometimes longer an the stem. Spikelets in ovoid or 
hyslie AS ^in outer empty mes h wer than in 
N. EC Gulf of Carpentaria, R. B 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallach; y Pey Island, Walter, 
This and the preceding species, although formerly placed in Mariscus, bare it 
haracters of Diclidium, with the second and third flowering glumes always 
not aenn hie by the lower one asin the section Mariscus, 
d, 
Section 6. Mariscus.—Spikelets small, terete or scarcely ee 
boronic 1 or 2 perfect flowers, the very short rhachis borde by 
h : à 
often remaining persist ent, the sec — sik 
falling off with the ibit the third or — piis — enclo | 
the continuation of the rhachis, or p ially nemi in dies 
flowering glume. Style 3-cleft. "Nut triquetro 
_ Although this section in some measure — Cyperus Jo c age: depo 
sufficiently distinct from the latter in habit, in the production of th d in the 
above the single flower or pated ana the » o flowers of the e. on 
trimerous ne and fruit, and aimongh the "icis is dimerous in the first tW those of 
of C: t is then accompanied by other characters quite at heroe! "S ter t0 
Cyperus 
` Kyllinga. ike the section Die/idium, it is a near approach in techni 
in hal it, 
Schenus th very different 
