Lipocarpha.] : CXLIIT. CYPERACER. 337 
eom. this one gathering it may be doubtful whether it may not have been 
introduced 
ahl’s name, Hypelyptum, was a mistake for Hy ypolytrum, as pointed out b 
Brown, 1. c., Vahl having intended to include this species in Richard's genus of that 
name. 
2.L cephala, Kunth, Enum. ii. re —A tufted wm ge 
very cime cem usually from 1 or 2 to 6 in., but sometimes nearly 
ft. hi Leaves shorter, ekg narrow, with rather broad versa 
more. Involueral bracts ery Mim: the longest 1 to 2 in. long. 
Spikelets Malia 1} to 2 lines long. Glumes very si into à 
‘ prey: 
scales.—Beecke]. in Linnea, xxxvii. 8; Hypelyptum Bagi (rio 
rod. 22 el. Fragm. viii. 238; Scirpus vonage ese 
F. 2d in Trans, Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 109, and in Hook. Kew Jou 
Australia, Arnhem S. Bay, » Brown ; between Norman and Gilbert 
Pad Sube; Port Darwin, Schultz, 
d. Roc ngham Bay, Batiacy ; Herbert Creek, Bowman ; Dry-beef 
Creek, yeah iy amer ena Q' Shan 
Victoria, Murray, Ovens, and King’s Hives, F Mueller. 
7. FUIRENA, Linn. 
Spikelets clustered, with several usually many hermaphrodite flowers. 
Glumes imbricate all round the rhachis, the lowest 1 or rarely 2 empty. 
Ypogynous scales 3, broad, usually 3-nerved, often alternating with 
Small bristles am ; anthers small. Sty b deamii, with 3 
stigmatic branch Nut 3-an Perside or uals with 
leafy stems, Leaf-sheaths crowned with an annular ne. Clusters 
of spikelets terminal and in the upper axils, usually f irregular 
y forming an 
narrow terminal panicle or the Aa ters few and distant. Spikelets 
usually pubescent or hirsute 
The genus cons ons of the 
ists of but few species dispersed over the warmer regi 
dev adv as well as the T bass "I ones having both a general distribu- 
over nearly the 
Lave glabro hie etin pointed. Heroes 
es co : L 
nt contacted at the base but sessile or nearly so, wi rui cee 
Leaves pubescent or at least ciliate. nine ie ot often 
ypogynous scales cordate at ase, 8 a 
tate, usually alternating with bristles . . . 2. F. glomerata, 
umbellata, Rotth. Descr. et. Ic. Pl. 70, t. 19, f. 3.—Perennial. 
Seni lj to 3 ft. long, 4- or uq glabrous. Leaves glabrous, the 
Ber ones d to 6 6 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad, the lowest wid long 
