Heleocharis. | OXLIII. CYPERACER. 295 
dorsal nerve or keel more or less promineph the sides brown with pale 
more or less scarious margins. H ynous bristles 3 sa 7, usually 5 
or 6, longer or shorter than the nut. ee -branches us 
obovoid or almost orbicular, very convex on both sides, but without the 
EM angle of H. multicaulis. —AH. (E) mueronulata, ees in Ann 
t. Hist. ser. i. vi. 46 ; Bæckel. in Linnes xxxvi. 4 E. ) gracilis, 
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 85, not of R. Br. Fe peut T "Muell. 
x Td not of R. Br.; Scirpus goma and 8. tener, Spreng. Syst. i. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Plains of the Condamine, 
Leichhardt ; V deer ere, Viger E 
Port Jac rown; New England, C. Stuart, Perrott 
Kenia Rivor, Mie Hodgbinsen ; ; pa een the Lachlan tme Darling River rs, Vie. 
Victor ts Robertson ; ctp , Whan ; Wimmera, Dallachy 
Tasmania. Derwent River, m Brown ; abundant in mare s places throughout 
the idu. J. D. Hooker and othe 
2e ethanie, Behr A "E Mueller ; Angas Ri iver, F. Mueller 
Aa Australia. Various stations from King Ge eorge’s Sound to Sirah River, 
rummond, n. 100, 364, F. Mueller, and others 
ar. pallens. Spikelet eS. a very pelo b wi; d glumes almost scarious, but the 
che of the spikelet, the number and mie of the glumes and other characters, 
Don of H. acuta not of H. eylindrostach 4s. — U pper Victoria River, F. Mueller ; Bowen 
EN sva 7 in the Darling and near Mount Murchison, Vi ir. doc 
is variety may Mele oe belong s H. Dietriehiana, Boeckel. in Flora, 
E ‘in: form of H. acuta occurs in New Zealand, and some specimens from 
Ih e and other parts of extratropical South America appear to be the same species. 
ave not as yet ro a to ascertain whether they have been as yet published 
under any or what n 
8. H. (E.) atricha, R. Br. Prod. 225.—Stems sents tufted, 
dee under 1 ft. high. Sheathing scale long, rather loose, oblique 
at the orifice as in H. multicaulis, but the habit of ‘the ae Anis of 
cuta. Spikelet linear, cylindrie eal, 2 to $ in. long. mes obtuse, 
um obovate, elegantly pitted in numerous vertical rows, the base o 
vii mmo» surrounded by a very prominent border.—F. Mue ll. Fragm. 
N. Australia. Between Norman and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. 
N.S. Wales. Port yeh R. Brown ; New England, C. Stuart. 
(E.) multicaulis, Sm. Engl. Fl. ii. 64.— Stems from a iod 
ing Bisons usually more slender or wea aker than in H. acuta, rarely 
bi ve 1 ft. long, and often much shorter. ge leaf-sheath appressed, 
x the orifice slightly ehe oblique and sometimes 
te, hence or acute without any distinct aber freu carat or 
{most ovate -oblong, 3 to 4 or grita 5 lines long, 1 to 14 lines broad. 
lumes oblong, 14 to 2 lines = obtuse or the Pa ones acute, the 
