308 CXLIIL CYPERACER. [ Fimbristylis, 
linear, scarcely flattened, about $ in. long and 14 lines broad. Glumes 
not very numerous, imbricate all round or irregularly spiral, scarcely 
distichous, cartilaginous, the keel prominent and produced into a minute 
erect point, the sides scarcely striate, the flowering ones scarcely 3 
lines long, about 4 empty and gradually shorter and broader. _ Stamens 
r3. Style dilated, ciliate; branches 3. Nut obovoid, stipitate, 3- 
ribbed but somewhat compressed, tuberculate-punctate. 
N. Australia. Victoria River. F. Mueller; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 789, 814. 
hes 39. N z 
ribbed, prominently tuberculate when quite ripe.— Abildgaardia sche- 
noides, R. Br. Prod. 229. 
N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
22, F. monostachya, Hassk. PL Jav. Rar. 61.—Rhizome sbort, - 
zontal. Stems often thickened at the base, otherwise slender, from unde 
1 ft. to lj ft. high. Leaves shorter, v narrow. Spikelet pec 
erect, or rarely accompanied by a second or even a third pedicelli z , 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, more or less flattened, pale or nearly white: 
G 
o J 
: a 
mise tubereulate or almost muricate —Abildgaardia monostachyt, 
2135 River, 
Queensland. East Coast, R. Brown; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; Burnet ! ' 
F. Mueller ; Rockhampton, 0' Shanesy, Thozet ; Herbert Creek, Bowman ; Briha? 
River, Moreton Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt, C. Stuart. dé, 
B one ng Wales. Paramatta, Woolls; New England, C. Stuart; Macleay 
eckler, 
à F. 
The species extends over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. to 
Mueller, 1. c., unites with it the three preceding species which, however, appear 
me to be constantly distinct in the shape and structure of their spikelets. 
23. F. Drew. Benth.—Stems leafless except the sheathi 
seales at the base, slender, 1 ft, high or rather ake: Spikelets 2 t 
5, the central one sessile the others pedunculate. Involucrs aret- 
bulate not always present but sometimes longer than the 
