296 OXLILI. CYPERACEJE. [ Heleocharis. 
keel usually green, the sides dii. Appas: hyii towards the 
edge. Hypogynous ee 6 or few sually longer than the nut. 
Style-branches 3. SOR ition, the dorsal rib as pro- 
minent as the "e de ones.—Kunth, ir ii. Dp Reichb. Ie. Fl. 
Germ. t. 296; Beeckel. in Linnea, xxxvi. H. (E) gracilis, R. Br. 
Prod. 224 ; H. gracillina, Hook. f. Handb: X Zeal. Fl. 745. 
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, C. Moore, Woolls. 
Mueller 
i burn River, F. 
S. Australia. Lofty Range, F. Mueller lani, 
WV. Australia. Drummond, n. 137, a appear o be à ome state of this p 
but the specimens are not in astate for absolute e Can oy 
If I am correct in the identification of this species it is ipe in north- western 
Europe vo. in] New Zealand. Can it have been introduced from Europe? Sichors 
Specimens, Agrostotheca. n. 115, named by Nees as Æ. gracilis, referred by epe der 
(4.) maculosa, and published by serit as a distinct Australian species um 
the name of H. gracillima, are West 
Section 3, Hetzogenvs. Spikelet ovoid-eonical or small and i 
flowered. Glumes with a prominent or greenish keel. Persiste ni roi 
of the style Bert, st depressed. Inner leaf-sheath oblique at 
orifice, often scario 
H. (E.) oe R. Br. Prod. 225.—Stems usually dom 
pe s rom under 6 in. to nearly 1 ft. high, ze striate. i 
leaf-sheath short, a messed o or rather loose, oblique at the or! Td 
‘stent 
inner face nearly flat t, shi ining, crowned by the very small per 
depressed: bese of the style.—Kunth, Enum. ii. 150; Bæckel. in 
næa, xxxvi. 461; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 240. E 
N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Sea range and Victoria Bien 
F. Mueller. 
d. Endeavour x. eng and Solander. 
W. Australia. Murchison River, Oldfield. old 
The species is widely spread over the warmer regions of the New and the 
World. 
our 
a A ) setacea, R. Br. Le. wie ain Spreng. Syst. i. 204) from Endeawo y 
! me oto differ ria slender specimens ot 
— 
ll. H. (E.) atropurpurea, Kunth, Enum. ii. 151.—Stems dense ly 
tufted, slender often filiform, 1 to 3 in. high. Inner jeaf-sheath ep 
poa, the orifice oblique, acuminate or lanceolate, in some spec 1 
À and a F med in others green. Spike ti 
slight A compressed, attaining about 2 lines in length and ^2 E 
ibo aie rin the smaller forms, 1 line long and à liue broad 
