Hypolytrum.] CXLIIL CYPERACER. 339 
dense cluster, with several often numerous hermaphrodite flowers. 
umes imbricate all round the rhachis, several of the lower ones 
smaller and empty. owers flat. Hypogynous scales (bracteoles ?) 
2, placed right and left, complicate, the keel acute usually ciliate, no 
inner flat ones. Stamens 3 or fewer. Style slender, deciduous ; ME 
matie branches 2 or 3, filiform. Nut hard, d ely en ed or e 
jal 
= with leafy stems. Panicles compound, with long leafy Heo 
The genus comprises but few species dispersed over the tropical and subtropical 
arkon of a Aih and the Old World, the Australian species having a very wide 
1. H., latifolium, Rich.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 271.—Stems acutel 
8-angled, 2 to 4 ft. high. Leaves ae longer, 4 to 1 in. broad, wit 
3 prominent nerves and more or se scabrous on the margins aud midrib. 
o 
ovate, obtuse o arcely mucronate, the midrib slightly prominent, 
otherwise speed 3 or 4 of the lower ones empty and more acute. 
Stamens 2, St tyle-branches 2 (or 8?). Nut when fully ripe nearly 
lobular, shghtly compressed, ird longer than the glume, very obtuse 
and smooth, in some specimens narrower co Shey at the top and some- 
what rugose but perhaps not ripe.—F. l. Fragm. viii. 
giganteum, Wall. ; ; Bot. Mag, t. 6282 ; Perge in Linnea, xxxvii. BL 
in Peers ensland. Sacks m Bay, Datlachy ; “Daintree tree River, Fitzalan. -Common 
speci Eel Asia and Africa, and closely allied to if not identical with an Ameri 
9. EXOCARYA, Benth. 
a Spikelets we umbellate-paniculate, with 1 or 2 hermaphrodite 
iie ers and 2 male ones below them. Glumes imbrieate all round, 
1 $ l oor d ones empty. Flowers flattene ypogynous seales 
Mee Outer ones (bracteoles p placed right and left, complicate, keeled, 
ard bulb, with 2 linear stigmatic branches 
ut exserted, crowned by the parer bulb of the ees leafy. 
ns mpound, the general and partial rays slender with a 
le spikelet as in Fimbrist tylis. 
Sein hing rin endemic in Australia. 
aversi Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1206.—Stems from a 
pag Shere fe. high or more but slender and weak, 3-angled, 
