Fimbristylis. | OXLIII. CYPERACE JE. 307 
but scarcely flattened; branches 3. Nut not seen ripe but showing 9 
prominent ribs asin F. monandra. 
N. Australia. Victoria River F. Muller ; Camden Harbour, Martin. 
Queensland. Sunday Island, near Cape York, 4. Cunningham, 
18. F. xyridis, R. Br. Prod. 226.—Stems slender but rigid, 1 to 1$ 
ft.high, pubescent at the base with short spreading hairs. Leaves rather 
numerous at the base of the stem and some halfas long, flat and grass- 
like, shortly ciliate, the outer ones with short open sheaths, the inner- 
most with a long close sheath. Spikelets solitary, nodding but 
to 5 lines long, 
oblong, triquetrous, smooth but not seen quite ripe.—Beckel. in 
æa, xxxviii. 389; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 274. 
N. Australia. Islands and mainland of the Gulf of Carpentaria, . R. Brown ; 
ia Land, N. coast, M‘Kinlay ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 16, 177, 813; between 
orman and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver. 
Var. rigidula. Glumes wi j 
th a prominent rigid midrib and the spikelet 
ip larger, but not fully out in the only specimen seen.—Fitzroy Island, 
er, 
SECtroN IL ABILDGAARDIA.—Spikelets erect, solitary or few, flat 
with distiehous glumes or narrow and spiral with 2 or 3 rows of glumes. 
Style-buib normal; branches usually 3. 
19. F. oxystachya, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 195.—Stems densely tufted, 
slender, smooth, 4 in. to near 1 ft. high. Leaves much shorter, few and 
lorm, the sheathing scales at the base of the stem often scarious. 
Spikelet solitary, erect, oblong or narrow-lanceolate, slightly flattened, 
Glumes i 
mall. ns ; 
pubescent; branches 3. Nut obovoid, stipitate, 3-ribbed, prominently 
tuberculate 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
1 20. F. macrantha, Beckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 388.—Stems tufted, 
^ 1i ft. high, slender but rigid and scabrous. Leaves yery much 
Orter, narrow-linear or subulate. Spikelet solitary, erect, gue 
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