340 CXLIIL CYPERACER. [ Exocarya. 
Queensland. Araucaria Forests on the Dawson and Burnett Rivers, Leichhardt, 
N. S. Wales. Richmond and Clarence Rivers, Wilcox ; Richmond River an 
Liverpool Plains, €. Moore. 
, In technical characters this elegant plant approaches very nearly to Mapana, im 
is as it were intermediate between that genus and Hypolytrum, bat the nos 
the minute spikelets and the exserted nuts larger than the whole spikelet give ! 
very different aspect from any species of either genus. 
10. MAPANTA, Aubl. 
(Pandanophyllum, Hassk. Thoracostachyum, Kurz.) 
Spikelets solitary clustered or icul ith rous herma- 
: paniculate, with nume | 
wari flowers. Glumes Ar all round the rhachis, a few of ze 
Ya empty. Flowers flattened.  Hypogyn ales 6 (or in specie 
no 
gig plants usually with long Eo n 
: the base only, sometimes scape-like 
single large spikelet or head of xa A and small involucral bracts, 
p th a terminal head corymb or panicle of few or num ally 
[rem pei ii. leafy involueral bracts. Spikelets us 
he genus is now known to i i ies from the 
ope regions of America, SER para A ganba o e o ice 
e only peser. one is endemic, approaching one from the Malayan Archipel; 
coperte orescence much — developed than in any extra-A EX spixelets 
ith 3n nod lly descri Ric as a spike, the flowers as androgyno 
female flower without any 
umes and stamens, 3 empty glumes and a be 
glume. The view however ie given appears m 
