Fimbristylis.) CXLIII. CYPERACER. 305 
solitary, erect, narrow-lanceolate, pale coloured, about 4 lines long 
and rather above 1 line diameter at the base. Glumes numerous, 
mar 
the lower flowers 2 or 3, in the upper ones deficient or here and n 
a short filament. Style "lender, slightly ciliate; branches 2, 
long in the upper female flowers. Nut obovate, biconvex, wh 
tuberculate. 
N. Australia. North coast, probably Arnhem Land, R. Brown, 
12. F. subbulbosa, Benth.—Stems from a thick horizontal rhizome 
numerous, thickened and bulb-like at the base, slender, often 12 ft, 
ong. Leaves few narrow and short or almost reduced to sheathing 
Scales, Spikelet solitary, erect, ovoid or Pb about 4 ane es d: an 
2 lines broad when ful grown, light brown. umes numerous, 
bricate all round, broadly Qvi obtuse or the keel slightly prominent 
thin almost mem mbranous, 3 or 4 outer ones empty shorter and som 
times more pointed. Stamens 3. Style flat, ciliate ; branches 2. Nus 
obovate or oblong, biconvex, smooth in the specimens seen but not yet 
ripe. 
Queensland, Armitage; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
F.tetr na, R. Br. Prod. 226.—Stems 9 in. to a 
having fallen away. Gl numerous, closely imbricate all round, 
ume 
oblong or rather broad, Tuy obtuse, very finely striate but otherwise 
acrveless, thinly cartilaginous, 4 to 6 of the lower ones empty. 
Stamens 3. Style flattened, ciliate; branches 2 or rarely 3. 
Darrow-oblong, scarcely flattened, longitudinally striate and transversely - 
Cancellate.—F, Muell. Fragm. i. 194, viii. 274 ; F. cylindrocarpa, Kunth, 
UN ii. 222 ; Beeckel. in Linnea, xxxvii. 7. Trichelostylis ayroides, 
; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. Pre 
N. Austr. ustralia. Islands 2 the Gulf of ere F. Brown; Providence Hill 
and Depot Creek, Upper Victoria River, F. Mi 
Spreads over East India, age and the Malayan Archipelago. 
14 F, trigastrocarya, F. Mue i, Fragm. i. 194.— Densely tufted, 
*Pparently annual. Stems filiform , 4 to 8 in. high, minutely pubescent. 
“Yes much shorter, filiform, with short open sheaths. Spikelet 
qlitary, erect, ovoid or at length bigs apg pale-brown, 3 ^ 
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