290 — CXLIII. CYPERACEJE. [ Cyperus. 
oon e species is widely aay ae over tropical un and Africa, an be the 
ne of the South African ones, Beckeler, Linnza, xxxvi. ud | refers the 
Marisew co sage of ee ex. American C. — s Torr., which sp 
M. paniceus and M. bellatus were founded on 
e qui Valls 
Rottboell’s Indian n Kyllinga panicea and K. umbellata, the wr proving to be a larger 
variety of the fo 
65. C. conicus, Backel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 371—Stems 1 to l3 
ft. high, rather nO often muc thickened is the base. e often 
more than the len ngth of the - flowering glume à - 
acute, striate, closely enveloping the Sealy me ues and the 
ofa fourth glume which is em pty or contains a male flower. su 
cleft. Nut ovoid, — nearly as long as the glume.—F. 
Fragm. viii. 268; Mar conicus, R. Br. Prod. 218. 
S e cia, ‘Gulf e) ncs, R. Brown; Port Darwin, Schultz, ?. es 
Queensland. Port Curtis, M'Gillivray; Bokhara Creek, Leichhardt ; Bowe 
Ds Birch. 
W. Australia. Murchison River, ume Leave 
Var. ramosus. Heads z d sue branching into dense pyramidal panicle d 
numerous, broad at the base.—Sweers Island, Henne ; Pout Denison, Fitzalan. i 
e. quem Bockel. in Flora, 1875, 89, from Port raped fe Amalia Dietrich, 
the character given does not appear to differ from x conte h, must 
us tetracarpus, Boeckel. 1. c, 88, also from Port Mickey. iilis lia Dietrich, dd 
nearthe same species in many respects, but the spikelets are said 9s e faper aod bY 
5 tow wers, which would uid t from the section Mariscus, where 1 
Beeckeler next to c. glauci 
3. HELEOCHARIS (Eleocharis), R. Br. 
(Scirpidium and Heleogenus (Eleogenus) Nees.) 
mes 
M conse: solitary, terminal, with many hermaphrodite Ai: ior 2 
mbricate all round the rhachis, the lowest 1 or 2 empty. Hyp op T irs 
lif 1 ttenel 
Nut obovoid or nearly globular and 3-ribbed, or more or less fia T o 
and biconvex with 2 marginal ribs, always crowned by the nm style 
depressed persistent base of the style, the remainder of the 
falling away.— Stems simple, tufted, without perfect leaves, the bai Jes 
stems often taken for leaves, the real leaves reduced to sheathing 
