316 CXLIII. CYPERACES. [ Fimbristylis. 
lets large, in a pa cluster of 2 to 5, with 1 or 2 short lateral rays or 
pedicels bearing each 1 or 2. Involucral bracts short and rigid, the 
longest erect but Maple than the inflorescence. Spikelets oblong or 
"Cea dirae 3 to 4 lines long, 12 to 2 lines diameter, pale brown. 
l numerous, closely imbricate all round, broadly ovate, mu- 
N. AAT init wo Schultz, n. 664. 
52. Se gene F. Muell. Fragm. ix. 79.—Glabrous. Stems 
} Leay es shorter, narrow, with broad searious 
, 
2 lines long. Stamens 3. Style slender, glabrous; branches 3. 
clavate-pyriform, 3-angled, pale-coloured, ‘tuberculate. 
N. S. Wales. In the interior, between the Darling and Barcoo Rivers, Nei ee 
a Rome and the Barcoo, Birch. Very reagent — € À ; 
53. 
often 1 ft. hi a Leave es much shart er, few, linear, ‘with short oy 
sheaths, or reduced to sheathing scales. Head of spikelets dense an 
globular, 4 to 6 lines diameter, either terminal concealing the Y t 
short. braet, or c eee lateral owing to the involueral bract contin 
sometimes twice as long as the head, or t has 
cence proliferous emitting a short branch with a secon - 
Spikelets brown, ovate or oblong, 2 to 3 lines or han old 4 lines long 
1$ to 2 lines broad. Glumes loosely imbricate in few rows, del 
branous, rines ntly keeled, obtuse or minutely pointed, the si E 
nerveless, 1 or sometimes 2 smal » outer ones empty. Stamens 3. 
Style viae or nearly so, the basal dilatation very small ; branches 7 
Nut eboriit- gelaies the angles not prominent, tuberculate— 
halophora, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 196. 
N. Australia. Upper Victoria and Fitzmaurice Sere F. Mueller. 
Queensland Endeavour River, Banks and Solander 
54. F. Schultzii, Beckel. in Linnea, xxxviii. 391. —Stems tufted, 
slender, 4 " E: i igh. Leaves much Face rather nume elets 
narrow-linea flat, with short open sheaths, Head of spik Jn- 
terminal, gl iaa ae, first hemispherical, 3 to 5 lines diameter: ^7 
