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294 CXLI. CYPERACEA, | Heleockayis. 
SECTION IL. ScrgPIDIUM. Spikelet cylindrical and obtuse or taper- 
ing upwards and acute, ueually.s smaller than in Limmochloa. Glum 
with a distinct green centre or prominen que Persistent base of the 
stvle quis a short conical often laterally flattened beak. 
one side as in H. acuta. Spikelet chong hnceota 3 to 4 lines sins 
N. S. Wales. Richmond River, Miss Atkinson, tha epee in youn a en 
the characters red m taken from East Indian ones. The species dió ee 
a wide singe: It is very near H. acuta but constantly known by 
angular stem 
. H. cylindrostachys, Bæckel. in Flora, 1875, 108 siete the “all 
giv an. — Stems terete, rather stout, mostly above 1 ft. hig péine 
1ameter, very pale coloured. lumes very numerous an ik 
R ovate-oblong, very i scarious with thin hyaline mare 
e green eentral nerve more s distinct, otherwise ne 
er coloured or faintly used heri brown, very deciduous as in A 
capitata. Hypogynous bristles 6 to 8, mostly longer than ne flat. 
Style branches 3 or rarely 2. Nut broadly obovate, YE muc 
tened, the beak or base of the style n conical and fla 
Queensland. Wide and Moreton Peri Leichhardt ; Rockhampton, Tt 
Boyne River, Hartmann ; Castle Creek, B Stuart ; 
. S. Wales. „màe en and Richmond, Woolls; New England, C. 
Tean 
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Tree specimens are referred by F. Mueller, Fragm. viii. 240, to H. (E) ^ 
Schult. which Boeckeler is probably right in reducing to ths common H. — 
Our species decid oo to be d distinct in the long narr gon 
yery 
7. H. (E.) acuta, R. Br. Prod. v4 A QU creeping. 
rather d terete, from 6 or 8 in. to 12 ft. high or rat 
Sheathing scale appressed and horizontally 1 truncate at the orifice, 
often coloured, with a small erect point or ru 
