304 CXLIII. CYPERACEX. [ Fimbristylis, 
late, 4 to 5 lines long, $ to 2 lines diame ter. Gluines numerous, 
o 3 lines e o 
slightly podaci, the sides nerveless. Style slender, glabrous below 
the branches; branches 2, ciliate. Nut small, obovoid almost 
UN truncate, with 3 prominent ribs and minutely tubereu- 
lat 
N. Australia. UD Victoria River, F, Mueller. 
9. F. lenpocoet, Benth = renee densely tufted, slender, 3 to 6 
in. high, hirsute at the base. Leaves mostly s sho orter, wares 
filiform, the persistent Shading bases mh and hyaline. Spikele 
. Australia. "m Victoria River, F. Mueller. This species deri = 
many respects the single-spikelet specimens of T e teet but appears to 
sufficiently distinct in its foliage as well as in the glum 
10. 
ie sisal entum and only 2 or 3 in. high, but sometimes above 
in. s much shorter, numerous, filiform, Spikelets so ary, 
flattened but ra Asp 2. Nut obovate, bioomyes: dark-colo = 
tuberculate.—Kunth, Enum 221; F. juncea, Beckel. in Lin 
xxxvii, 4, partly, e probably in Scirpus junceus, Forst. 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
Queensland. Mo: jer “ete ueller. 
Also in a pae rien Archi yi ne Australian plant ng 
std well with epe con eat) ‘identified wie d th and others, Le 
Forster's species with ekeler Mida. A" ER Ta am 
to this true F. juncea a plant gathered by Hinds in the Marquesas Islan 
. F. androgyna, R Prod. 226.—Stems densely ie 
Peara 6 to 10 in. high, DR iu except the sheathing scales. SP 
