316 CXLIIL CYPERACER. [ Fimbristylis. 
longest 3 to 5 lines ‘ong, — and almost pungent. Inflorescence pe 
spike lets the ton Style flattened and more ciliate. Nut broadly 
obovoid-elava 
N. eka Depot Creek, Pisos Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
Queensland. Bowen Downs, Bir 
coun sometimes amit with the on ray about 1 Ai someting 
above 6 in. long and very compound, the ultimate rays or pe 
i readin 
streak on each side, the margins pale, sometimes hyaline. oe c; 
Style glabrous; branches 3. Nut small, obovoid, whitish, pe. 
granular tuberculate or almost muricate.— Beeckel. in xs SC 
43; F. Muell. regu ix. 12; Trichelostyles Kap ca Nees; 
Fi. Sam Præf. 4 
N. Australia. stb Victoria River and near M‘Adam Range, F. Mueller ; 
tween yet and Gilbert Rivers, Gulliver 
Queensland. Backes. O Shanesy. but the 
Common in tropical Asia, the Mascarene Islands and in tropical ane 
Senegambian plant referred to it by J. D. Hooker is probably different. 
S 
. rara, R. Br. Prod. 227. — Apparently annual. un 
angular, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves much shorter, few, the — sium i 
sometimes all reduced to sheathing scales with short wp am soele 
points. Umbel compound, rather loose, 2 to 4 in. bro m u n 
slender. Involueral bracts very short. Spikelets IRONI ovoid 
di er 
St 
5 ereu- 
un glabrous; branches 3. Nut oroi 3-ribbed, ranular tub 
te—F. t trachycarya, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 199. as 
uan, north mae R. Brown, Kinlay ; Depot 
ited by F. Mueller, Fragm. ix. with F. miliacea, E yi shapa dues 
of the spikelets, and the sk eee of the glumes, appear to m cog 
Laivayé fin find 3 stamens, whilst I have never seen more trast pi 
specimens at least, of F. miliacea, 
N. Australia Arnhem 
Upper Victoria rao F. Muel 
annual. 
F. Muell. Fragm.i. 200. cuts ^ uh 
