292 CXLUI. CYPERACER. [ Heleocharis. 
acne pang loose and scarious at the orifice. sacar 
rather broad . 18. H. pusilla. 
E. ses RE et Sch. ; Kunth, » Enum. ii. 140, an East Indian p lant, is 
Eus js e ckel. in Linnea, xx xvi. 429, as also Austra lian on the anthony v 
Sieber’s specimens, wi ostotheca, n. 24, whi "d Nees had named £, re M 
Kunt synonym . (&.) y A Rdys a West Indian and So d the 
closely allied if not identical species. sp ns I ha we ir ih 
spikelets too imperfect to nod to what poe eri belong, and they may 
whether Australian or West Indian is very unc If Australian 
prove to be the same as H. Pei Br. with which Or i agree as to the Toaf-sheath, 
Section I. Liwyocnaris, Nees.—Spikelet cylindrical, vist nen 
Glumes obtuse, not at all or very obscurely keeled, rather rig! qo ally 
hyaline border. aoa base of the style forming a conical us 
flattened beak to the nu 
l. H. (E) Mens, R. Br. Prod. 224. —Rhizome oe * 
stoloniferous. Stems from under 2 ft. to 4 or 5 ft. high, 2 to inei 
diameter, terete but spent articulate from internal transverse win 
the principa bna o 1l in. PME but several Qu p 
ut 
branches 2 or 3 ather broad, minutely pitted or gran vat 
not distinctly striate, the flattened beak rather —— with a E $i 
ring round its base.—K unth, Enum. ii. 154; B m pem 
: ceckel 
475; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 85; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. g“ ade 
sphacelatus, Spreng. Syst. i. 204; Heleocharis prete 
— viii. 238, not of R. Br. 
tralia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Arnhem Land, F. M ad 
res mate Rockhampton (the tubers of the thizome piniet, 0 sha 
Brisbane ag in Bai Fler, Wilco; 
N. S. w p Y Pagani, C. Stuart; Clarence River, Becher, 
Camden county, Miss Atkin i 
ictoria. zw ete: Tus. “Raber: tson; Emu Creek, Whan ; Mittagong D pan ‘and 
Tasmani ent River, R. Brown ; abundant in lagoons near 
0 nmn Gilin and ot 
oe Hats) 
heed 
ws Saas and Lake Torrens, F. Mue 
is very 
Zealand and apparently in X "n Islands, Hs 
closely d to = 
glumes, and, in the ens examined at least, the beak of its nut is T 
The H. ( E.) binptate, Btond,. Syn, Glum. ii. 82 is probably the same as 
2. H. (E.) spiralis, R. Br.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 155. —Steme sr = 
rete or more or less triquetrous, continuous inside, 1} to 3 
Spikelets cylindrical, $ to 1 long, about 2 lines aay , 
coloured or almost ‘white. Ub. broadly ore el the Aus 
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