Fimbristylis.] CXLIIL CYPERACE X. 315 
brown, 3 to 5 lines long, about 1 line broad. Glumes not numerous, 
loosely imbricate all round, lanceolate, acuminate, with rather long fine 
erect or slightly spreading points, the keel prominent and often minutely 
iate, the sides scarious. amens usually 2. Style nearly glabrous ; 
branches 3. Nut nearly globular, obscurely 3-angled, dark-coloured, 
coarsely tuberculate. 
N. Australia. Depot Creek, Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller, 
Serres II. Porysracuy.x.—Spikelets usually numerous, in more or 
less compound umbels, not clustered on the rays. 
and those of the partial umbels often rather long. Spikelets broadly 
ovate, pale brown, about 3 lines long and 2 lines broad. lumes 
numerous, but rather loosely imbrieate all round, broad, rather acute, 
"gid and obscurely 3-nerved in the centre, the broad sides thinly scarious 
e m . Style slender, minutely ciliate; branches 3. 
N ut obovoid-elavate, contracted into a long stipes, very prominently 
3-ribbed, perfectly smooth. 
. N. Australia, Depot Creek, Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller, a single specimen 
in his herb, 
0. F Solidifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 198.—Glabrous and perhaps 
annual though 1 to li ft. high. Leaves few, narrow, erect, flat or nearly 
terete, the longest sometimes as long as the stem. Umbels slightly 
rhachis length ing the lower glumes fall away lumes nume- 
the? imbricate all round but ve and distinct, obtuse, 
Style nearly glabrous; branches 3. Nut narrow- 
N. Australia. Sturt's Creek, F. Mueller., 
41. F. Obtusangula, P Muell. Fragm. i. 198. — Very closely 
rien to F. solidifolia and perhaps a variety only. Stature the same. 
es more numerous and shorter. Involucral very short, the 
