Cyperus. | OXLIII CYPERACERX. 289 
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striate, the two lower and the terminal one empty. Bele 3-cleft. Nut 
ovoid, triquetrous, more th: ee half the length of the glume.—J7Mariscus 
decompositus, R. Br. 
N. Australia. Gulf af TEL R. B 
, Queensland. Endeavour Tüvers, bie: peers Solander, A. Cunningham ; CERT 
ingham Bay, Dadllae hy. 
63. C. Armstrongii, Benth—Stems from a thick tufted base 
varying from under 1 ft. to near 2 ft. high, stout and triquetrous. 
wer and glume above it. Style 3-cleft. Nut sersil-ohleogs 
triquetrous, nearly as long as the glum 
- Australia. Port Essington, 4; yay Part Darwin, Schultz, n. 731. 
Queensland, Percy Islands, 4. Cunningham; Rockingham Bay, Dallaehy. 
Very pearly allied to C. emen, Bockel. from the Fiji Islands, but more 
"igid, the spikelets smaller. 
64. C. umbe llatus, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 386.—Stems from under 
l ft. to nearly 2 ft. hi gh, triquetrous, smooth. Leaves variable, narrow 
or rather broad, shorter or lon nger than the stem. Spikelets very 
numerous, in close cylindrical spikes of 4 to 1 in. all sessile or mostly 
Pedunculate in a simple umbel or very rarely 1 or 2 of them branched 
at the base. — Tnvolueral bracts usually several, much longer than the 
eflorescence, the outer ones sometimes 2 or 3 lines broad. Spikelets 
ing Teo lj to 2 lines long, almost always 1-flowe 
ro outer glumes short and empty, both usually attached below the 
the ulations; Bus ering glume PIE the whole spikelet, enclosing 
er a continuation of the rhachis whie win 
5 ,; Vell. Fragm. viii. 267 ; Mariscus umbellatus, Vahl; Kunth, Enum. 
XE Kyllinga umbellata, Rottb. Descr. et Ic. Pl. 15, t4 omy 
ur. Fl. Ow: et Ben. t. 55; Kyllinga qme Rottb: L e. t. 4 f 
rd Be Condamine River, Leichhardt, and various localities in South 
land, Bowman, and others ; Brisbane River, P. Mueller, Bailey. 
jii ; laxiflora, Spikes longer 'and not so dense, 1 or 2 of ‘the outer ones with a 
oma at the base — Herbert Creek, Bowman. ; 
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