336 CXLIII. CYPERACER. [Seirpus. 
N. S. Wales. Clarence River, Wilcox ; Mount Mitchell, Beckler. 
Victoria. Lake Omeo, Hume, Mitta Mitta and Snowy Rivers, F. Mueller. 
habit o 
This species has the peculiar hypogynous bristles da ptem. of the 
the European S. radicans, Schkuhr, but appears to be quite distinct in the larger 
more clustered spikelets and some other characters 
6. LIPOCARPHA, R. Br. 
Spikelets in a terminal cluster or head, with numerous heran 
dite lowers, Glumes imbrieate all round the rhachis, the lowest 
rar 
as or longer than the nut and enclosing it. Stamens 1 or2 o: 
3?). Style deciduous, slender, with 2 or 3 drums praca 
oblong, somewhat compressed, Lads or crowned very 8 eo 
sistent base of the style.—Annuals or perennials, the stems leaty 
the base only. Percent few, dE sessile. eko bracts leaflik 
narrow unequal, sprea 
ld. 
A small genus spread over the tropical regions of the New and the he ou Woi 
Both the Australian species are also in the -Malayan Archipelago, and one 
ag a very wide tropic ical range. 
` In the Age Hongkongensis, misled by the approximation of the genus Hy um 
tanists t ‘a 
Ae Kyllinga and by others to Lio irum I described the flowers 85 
flowered fe os besar: in heads resembling spikelets, but a closer rpn 
= really ami — to n rid (Dolpi), o and one gara 
wi e 
: AG. The two h H ry respect 
Outer scales or bracteol at Hyp Aeg je Sud be sii in every number, 
with the scales of Fui E Hanas rpha, and of Faama Torak s, differing inn lis. 
usually 1 in Hemicarpha, 2 in Lipocar. pha, 3in Fuirena, und 4 in Scirpus ittore 
Usually perennial, often above 1 ft., with linear leaves. ii 
Glumes spathulate or broadly cuneate, prender eMe 1, L. argen 
ual, x 6 in., with filiform Glum w, hala. 
preading points oc u . 2, L. miroo 
a 
l. L. argentea, Br. App. Tuck. Congo, 40.—Stem s from 
erennial rhizome. Fok 1 to 1} ft. Leaves much eei ie 
id | 
c 
Qu 
: 
3 
roa n é 
hyaline seales oblong. Stamen l. Style-branehes 3. Nut obi 
much flattened, obtuse, smooth. CO unt, aom, i ii. ; j Bok 
am 114; Hypelyptum argenteum, Vahl; F. Muell. 
; ! 
MO Wd d ei bane River, Baily. Widely though the zu the tropie eimen g 
ur cg umbian 
I have seen do not quite agree E mm. abo RH y known in AT". 
